# Amazon Nova Micro vs Gemma 2 27B

> Amazon Nova Micro and Gemma 2 27B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (30.4 vs 29.4), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/amazon-nova-micro-vs-gemma-2-27b
- Last updated: 2026-10-11
- Shared benchmarks: 25

## Summary

- They share 25 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Micro scores higher in 3 categories and Gemma 2 27B in 5 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Amazon Nova Micro leads 26.9 to 10.7.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is LiveBench Language: 15.8% for Amazon Nova Micro and 32.6% for Gemma 2 27B.
- Amazon Nova Micro is cheaper at $0.035 / $0.14 per million input/output tokens, against $0.65 / $0.65 for Gemma 2 27B.
- Amazon Nova Micro accepts more context: 128K tokens versus 8K.
- Gemma 2 27B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Amazon Nova Micro | Gemma 2 27B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | Google |
| Noometry Index | 30.4 | 29.4 |
| Rank | 294 | 312 |
| Context | 128K | 8K |
| Input $/M | $0.035 | $0.65 |
| Output $/M | $0.14 | $0.65 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Amazon Nova Micro: 30.5 (#295)
- Gemma 2 27B: 34.1 (#246)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Gemma 2 27B |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Coding | 20.2% | 36% |
| LMArena Coding | 1218 | 1211 |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 42.8% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 52.5% |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Amazon Nova Micro: 22.1 (#132)
- Gemma 2 27B: —

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Gemma 2 27B |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 22.3% | — |

## Reasoning

- Amazon Nova Micro: 17.4 (#294)
- Gemma 2 27B: 15.3 (#315)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Gemma 2 27B |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Reasoning | 25.1% | 28.1% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1191 | 1198 |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 34% | 47.9% |
| LiveBench | 29.6% | 38.2% |
| DTBench | — | 48% |
| LMCA | — | 7.1% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 122.08 |

## Math

- Amazon Nova Micro: 26.9 (#254)
- Gemma 2 27B: 10.7 (#311)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Gemma 2 27B |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Math | 34.5% | 26.5% |
| LMArena Math | 1206 | 1212 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 1.4% |
| Omni-MATH | 21.4% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 27.9% |

## Knowledge

- Amazon Nova Micro: 29.6 (#237)
- Gemma 2 27B: 19.0 (#280)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Gemma 2 27B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1184 | 1172 |
| MMLU | 70.8% | 75.7% |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 36.5% |
| MMLU-Pro | 51.1% | — |
| Confabulations | — | 27.1% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 5.5% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 38.3% | — |

## Multilingual

- Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#239)
- Gemma 2 27B: 38.6 (#226)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Gemma 2 27B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1186 | 1217 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1209 | 1221 |
| LMArena French | 1238 | 1247 |
| LMArena German | 1192 | 1209 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1154 | 1175 |
| LMArena Korean | 1150 | 1174 |
| LMArena Russian | 1185 | 1234 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1225 | 1228 |

## Instruction Following

- Amazon Nova Micro: 56.3 (#272)
- Gemma 2 27B: 60.5 (#249)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Gemma 2 27B |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 48% | 58.1% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1174 | 1206 |
| IFEval | 76% | — |

## Long Context

- Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#229)
- Gemma 2 27B: 37.3 (#218)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Gemma 2 27B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1205 | 1231 |

## Writing & Preference

- Amazon Nova Micro: 39.5 (#247)
- Gemma 2 27B: 44.2 (#225)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Gemma 2 27B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1208 | 1231 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1172 | 1241 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1178 | 1224 |
| LiveBench Language | 15.8% | 32.6% |
| WildBench | 74.3% | — |

## FAQ

### Is Amazon Nova Micro better than Gemma 2 27B?

Amazon Nova Micro and Gemma 2 27B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (30.4 vs 29.4), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

### Which is cheaper, Amazon Nova Micro or Gemma 2 27B?

Amazon Nova Micro is cheaper. It lists at $0.035 per million input tokens and $0.14 per million output tokens; Gemma 2 27B lists at $0.65 and $0.65.

### Is Amazon Nova Micro or Gemma 2 27B better for coding?

Gemma 2 27B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 34.1 versus 30.5 in the Noometry coding category.

### Which has the bigger context window?

Amazon Nova Micro does, with 128K tokens against 8K.

### How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Micro and Gemma 2 27B share?

25 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Micro has 32 scored results on Noometry and Gemma 2 27B has 34.