# Amazon Nova Micro vs DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale

> DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.7 to 30.4 on the Noometry Index. Amazon Nova Micro costs 14× less per token, which makes it the better buy when DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/amazon-nova-micro-vs-deepseek-v3-2-speciale
- Last updated: 2026-10-11
- Shared benchmarks: 0

## Summary

- The widest gap is in reasoning, where DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale leads 32.9 to 17.4.
- Amazon Nova Micro is cheaper at $0.035 / $0.14 per million input/output tokens, against $0.58 / $1.68 for DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale.
- DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Amazon Nova Micro | DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | DeepSeek |
| Noometry Index | 30.4 | 39.7 |
| Rank | 294 | 162 |
| Context | 128K | 128K |
| Input $/M | $0.035 | $0.58 |
| Output $/M | $0.14 | $1.68 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Amazon Nova Micro: 30.5 (#295)
- DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale: 40.4 (#140)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale |
|---|---|---|
| WeirdML | — | 46.7% |
| LiveBench Coding | 20.2% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1218 | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Amazon Nova Micro: 22.1 (#132)
- DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale: —

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 22.3% | — |

## Reasoning

- Amazon Nova Micro: 17.4 (#294)
- DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale: 32.9 (#73)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale |
|---|---|---|
| SimpleBench | — | 52.6% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 25.1% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1191 | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 34% | — |
| LiveBench | 29.6% | — |

## Math

- Amazon Nova Micro: 26.9 (#254)
- DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale: —

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale |
|---|---|---|
| Omni-MATH | 21.4% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 34.5% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1206 | — |

## Knowledge

- Amazon Nova Micro: 29.6 (#237)
- DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale: —

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU-Pro | 51.1% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 5.5% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 38.3% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1184 | — |
| MMLU | 70.8% | — |

## Multilingual

- Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#239)
- DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale: —

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1186 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1209 | — |
| LMArena French | 1238 | — |
| LMArena German | 1192 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1154 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1150 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1185 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1225 | — |

## Instruction Following

- Amazon Nova Micro: 56.3 (#272)
- DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale: —

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 48% | — |
| IFEval | 76% | — |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1174 | — |

## Long Context

- Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#229)
- DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale: —

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1205 | — |

## Writing & Preference

- Amazon Nova Micro: 39.5 (#247)
- DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale: 46.0 (#222)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1208 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1172 | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 1276 |
| WildBench | 74.3% | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1178 | — |
| LiveBench Language | 15.8% | — |

## FAQ

### Is Amazon Nova Micro better than DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale?

DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.7 to 30.4 on the Noometry Index. Amazon Nova Micro costs 14× less per token, which makes it the better buy when DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

### Which is cheaper, Amazon Nova Micro or DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale?

Amazon Nova Micro is cheaper. It lists at $0.035 per million input tokens and $0.14 per million output tokens; DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale lists at $0.58 and $1.68.

### Is Amazon Nova Micro or DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale better for coding?

DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale scores higher on coding benchmarks: 40.4 versus 30.5 in the Noometry coding category.

### Which has the bigger context window?

Both accept 128K tokens.

### How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Micro and DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Micro has 32 scored results on Noometry and DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale has 3.