# Amazon Nova Micro vs Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)

> Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.1 to 30.4 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/amazon-nova-micro-vs-gemini-2-0-flash
- Last updated: 2026-10-11
- Shared benchmarks: 30

## Summary

- They share 30 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Micro scores higher in 2 categories and Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) in 7 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in instruction following, where Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads 74.4 to 56.3.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is LiveBench Reasoning: 25.1% for Amazon Nova Micro and 78.2% for Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025).

## Snapshot

| | Amazon Nova Micro | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | Google |
| Noometry Index | 30.4 | 35.1 |
| Rank | 294 | 228 |
| Context | 128K | — |
| Input $/M | $0.035 | — |
| Output $/M | $0.14 | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |

## Coding

- Amazon Nova Micro: 30.5 (#295)
- Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 28.4 (#315)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Coding | 20.2% | 63.4% |
| LMArena Coding | 1218 | 1350 |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | — | 13.5% |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 38.2% |
| WeirdML | — | 25.8% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 45.9% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 59.9% |
| CadEval | — | 30% |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Amazon Nova Micro: 22.1 (#132)
- Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 28.1 (#92)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 22.3% | — |
| TheAgentCompany | — | 11.4% |

## Reasoning

- Amazon Nova Micro: 17.4 (#294)
- Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 15.2 (#318)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Reasoning | 25.1% | 78.2% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1191 | 1346 |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 34% | 69.4% |
| LiveBench | 29.6% | 66.9% |
| ARC-AGI-2 | — | 1.3% |
| SimpleBench | — | 31.1% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 37.8% |
| EnigmaEval | — | 1.1% |
| DTBench | — | 63.2% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 135.36 |

## Math

- Amazon Nova Micro: 26.9 (#254)
- Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 37.9 (#146)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| Omni-MATH | 21.4% | 45.9% |
| LiveBench Math | 34.5% | 75.8% |
| LMArena Math | 1206 | 1352 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 57.8% |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 82.2% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 1.7% |

## Knowledge

- Amazon Nova Micro: 29.6 (#237)
- Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 32.0 (#213)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU-Pro | 51.1% | 73.7% |
| GPQA (HELM) | 38.3% | 55.6% |
| LMArena Expert | 1184 | 1339 |
| MMLU | 70.8% | 79.7% |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 64.1% |
| Humanity's Last Exam | — | 6.6% |
| Confabulations | — | 12.4% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 5.5% | — |

## Multimodal

- Amazon Nova Micro: —
- Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 36.5 (#79)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1158 |
| GeoBench | — | 77% |

## Multilingual

- Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#239)
- Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 47.4 (#149)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1186 | 1342 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1209 | 1373 |
| LMArena French | 1238 | 1391 |
| LMArena German | 1192 | 1353 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1154 | 1294 |
| LMArena Korean | 1150 | 1313 |
| LMArena Russian | 1185 | 1351 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1225 | 1363 |

## Instruction Following

- Amazon Nova Micro: 56.3 (#272)
- Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 74.4 (#97)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 48% | 85.8% |
| IFEval | 76% | 84.1% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1174 | 1336 |

## Long Context

- Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#229)
- Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 38.1 (#203)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1205 | 1344 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 61.1% |

## Writing & Preference

- Amazon Nova Micro: 39.5 (#247)
- Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 49.5 (#190)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1208 | 1354 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1172 | 1340 |
| WildBench | 74.3% | 80% |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1178 | 1350 |
| LiveBench Language | 15.8% | 51.3% |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 73.8% |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 1128 |

## FAQ

### Is Amazon Nova Micro better than Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)?

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.1 to 30.4 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Amazon Nova Micro or Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) better for coding?

Amazon Nova Micro scores higher on coding benchmarks: 30.5 versus 28.4 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Micro and Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) share?

30 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Micro has 32 scored results on Noometry and Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) has 54.