# Amazon Nova Micro vs Falcon-180B

> Falcon-180B is the stronger model overall, scoring 32.2 to 30.4 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/amazon-nova-micro-vs-falcon-180b
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 7

## Summary

- They share 7 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Micro scores higher in 3 categories and Falcon-180B in 1 category; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in multilingual, where Amazon Nova Micro leads 36.5 to 25.2.
- Falcon-180B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Amazon Nova Micro | Falcon-180B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | Technology Innovation Institute |
| Noometry Index | 30.4 | 32.2 |
| Rank | 294 | 260 |
| Context | 128K | — |
| Input $/M | $0.035 | — |
| Output $/M | $0.14 | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Amazon Nova Micro: 30.5 (#295)
- Falcon-180B: —

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Falcon-180B |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Coding | 20.2% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1218 | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Amazon Nova Micro: 22.1 (#132)
- Falcon-180B: —

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Falcon-180B |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 22.3% | — |

## Reasoning

- Amazon Nova Micro: 17.4 (#294)
- Falcon-180B: 19.1 (#269)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Falcon-180B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1191 | 1007 |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 25.1% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 34% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 112.13 |
| HellaSwag | — | 89% |
| LAMBADA | — | 79.8% |
| LiveBench | 29.6% | — |
| PIQA | — | 84.9% |
| WinoGrande | — | 87.1% |

## Math

- Amazon Nova Micro: 26.9 (#254)
- Falcon-180B: —

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Falcon-180B |
|---|---|---|
| Omni-MATH | 21.4% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 34.5% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1206 | — |
| GSM8K | — | 54.4% |

## Knowledge

- Amazon Nova Micro: 29.6 (#237)
- Falcon-180B: —

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Falcon-180B |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU | 70.8% | 70.6% |
| MMLU-Pro | 51.1% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 5.5% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 38.3% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1184 | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 67.8% |
| BoolQ | — | 89% |
| OpenBookQA | — | 64.2% |

## Multilingual

- Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#239)
- Falcon-180B: 25.2 (#286)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Falcon-180B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1186 | 1000 |
| 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)
- Falcon-180B: 53.4 (#286)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Falcon-180B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1174 | 1047 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 48% | — |
| IFEval | 76% | — |

## Long Context

- Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#229)
- Falcon-180B: —

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Falcon-180B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1205 | — |

## Writing & Preference

- Amazon Nova Micro: 39.5 (#247)
- Falcon-180B: 29.1 (#295)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Falcon-180B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1208 | 1054 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1172 | 1089 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1178 | 1013 |
| WildBench | 74.3% | — |
| LiveBench Language | 15.8% | — |

## FAQ

### Is Amazon Nova Micro better than Falcon-180B?

Falcon-180B is the stronger model overall, scoring 32.2 to 30.4 on the Noometry Index.

### How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Micro and Falcon-180B share?

7 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Micro has 32 scored results on Noometry and Falcon-180B has 16.