# Amazon Nova Micro vs Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)

> Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.2 to 30.4 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/amazon-nova-micro-vs-gemini-1-5-flash
- Last updated: 2026-10-11
- Shared benchmarks: 23

## Summary

- They share 23 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Micro scores higher in 2 categories and Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) in 7 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in instruction following, where Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads 66.8 to 56.3.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is MMLU-Pro: 51.1% for Amazon Nova Micro and 67.8% for Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024).

## Snapshot

| | Amazon Nova Micro | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | Google |
| Noometry Index | 30.4 | 33.2 |
| Rank | 294 | 246 |
| Context | 128K | — |
| Input $/M | $0.035 | — |
| Output $/M | $0.14 | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |

## Coding

- Amazon Nova Micro: 30.5 (#295)
- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 34.4 (#236)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1218 | 1261 |
| WeirdML | — | 24.9% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 43.5% |
| LiveBench Coding | 20.2% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 55.1% |
| HumanEval+ | — | 75.6% |
| MBPP+ | — | 67.5% |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Amazon Nova Micro: 22.1 (#132)
- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 26.6 (#102)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 22.3% | — |
| BALROG | — | 14.6% |

## Reasoning

- Amazon Nova Micro: 17.4 (#294)
- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 21.7 (#215)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1191 | 1257 |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 25.1% | — |
| DTBench | — | 53.8% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 34% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 129.36 |
| ForecastBench | — | 53.9 |
| LiveBench | 29.6% | — |
| PIQA | — | 87.5% |

## Math

- Amazon Nova Micro: 26.9 (#254)
- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 22.1 (#281)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| Omni-MATH | 21.4% | 30.4% |
| LMArena Math | 1206 | 1269 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 16.3% |
| LiveBench Math | 34.5% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 61.9% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 0% |
| GSM8K | — | 82.4% |

## Knowledge

- Amazon Nova Micro: 29.6 (#237)
- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 26.2 (#260)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU-Pro | 51.1% | 67.8% |
| GPQA (HELM) | 38.3% | 43.7% |
| LMArena Expert | 1184 | 1233 |
| MMLU | 70.8% | 77.9% |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 47.3% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 5.5% | — |
| BoolQ | — | 85.8% |

## Multimodal

- Amazon Nova Micro: —
- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 36.0 (#81)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1141 |
| Video-MME | — | 70.3% |
| GeoBench | — | 76% |

## Multilingual

- Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#239)
- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 42.9 (#189)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1186 | 1278 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1209 | 1295 |
| LMArena French | 1238 | 1258 |
| LMArena German | 1192 | 1262 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1154 | 1252 |
| LMArena Korean | 1150 | 1221 |
| LMArena Russian | 1185 | 1288 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1225 | 1243 |

## Instruction Following

- Amazon Nova Micro: 56.3 (#272)
- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 66.8 (#205)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | 76% | 83.1% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1174 | 1258 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 48% | — |

## Long Context

- Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#229)
- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 39.0 (#187)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1205 | 1284 |

## Writing & Preference

- Amazon Nova Micro: 39.5 (#247)
- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 48.7 (#196)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1208 | 1287 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1172 | 1285 |
| WildBench | 74.3% | 79.2% |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1178 | 1253 |
| LiveBench Language | 15.8% | — |

## FAQ

### Is Amazon Nova Micro better than Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)?

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.2 to 30.4 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Amazon Nova Micro or Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) better for coding?

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) scores higher on coding benchmarks: 34.4 versus 30.5 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Micro and Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) share?

23 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Micro has 32 scored results on Noometry and Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) has 42.