# Amazon Nova Micro vs Gemma 3 27B

> Amazon Nova Micro and Gemma 3 27B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (29.9 vs 30.5), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/amazon-nova-micro-vs-gemma-3-27b
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 26

## Summary

- They share 26 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Micro scores higher in 5 categories and Gemma 3 27B in 4 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in instruction following, where Gemma 3 27B leads 70.8 to 56.6.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is LiveBench Instruction Following: 48% for Amazon Nova Micro and 74.9% for Gemma 3 27B.
- Amazon Nova Micro is cheaper at $0.035 / $0.14 per million input/output tokens, against $0.08 / $0.16 for Gemma 3 27B.
- Gemma 3 27B accepts more context: 131K tokens versus 128K.
- Gemma 3 27B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Amazon Nova Micro | Gemma 3 27B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | Google |
| Noometry Index | 29.9 | 30.5 |
| Rank | 290 | 277 |
| Context | 128K | 131K |
| Input $/M | $0.035 | $0.08 |
| Output $/M | $0.14 | $0.16 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Amazon Nova Micro: 30.0 (#289)
- Gemma 3 27B: 22.1 (#329)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Gemma 3 27B |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Coding | 20.2% | 39.9% |
| LMArena Coding | 1218 | 1322 |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 4.9% |
| SciCode | — | 21.2% |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Amazon Nova Micro: 21.9 (#125)
- Gemma 3 27B: 24.9 (#105)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Gemma 3 27B |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 22.3% | 29.5% |

## Reasoning

- Amazon Nova Micro: 16.7 (#289)
- Gemma 3 27B: 16.3 (#297)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Gemma 3 27B |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Reasoning | 25.1% | 43.8% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1191 | 1340 |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 34% | 51.5% |
| LiveBench | 29.6% | 50% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 40.4% |
| CritPt | — | 0% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 0% |
| DTBench | — | 52.5% |
| LMCA | — | 12.3% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 130.04 |

## Math

- Amazon Nova Micro: 24.9 (#252)
- Gemma 3 27B: 24.4 (#261)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Gemma 3 27B |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Math | 34.5% | 55.4% |
| LMArena Math | 1206 | 1312 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 22.5% |
| Omni-MATH | 21.4% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 74% |

## Knowledge

- Amazon Nova Micro: 29.2 (#231)
- Gemma 3 27B: 25.4 (#256)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Gemma 3 27B |
|---|---|---|
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 5.5% | 7.4% |
| LMArena Expert | 1184 | 1303 |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 47.7% |
| MMLU-Pro | 51.1% | — |
| Confabulations | — | 40.3% |
| GPQA (HELM) | 38.3% | — |
| MMLU | 70.8% | — |

## Multimodal

- Amazon Nova Micro: —
- Gemma 3 27B: 32.0 (#94)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Gemma 3 27B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1165 |
| GeoBench | — | 52% |

## Multilingual

- Amazon Nova Micro: 36.7 (#234)
- Gemma 3 27B: 47.0 (#150)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Gemma 3 27B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1186 | 1334 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1209 | 1347 |
| LMArena French | 1237 | 1368 |
| LMArena German | 1192 | 1362 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1154 | 1287 |
| LMArena Korean | 1150 | 1308 |
| LMArena Russian | 1185 | 1349 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1225 | 1348 |

## Instruction Following

- Amazon Nova Micro: 56.6 (#267)
- Gemma 3 27B: 70.8 (#155)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Gemma 3 27B |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 48% | 74.9% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1174 | 1321 |
| IFEval | 76% | — |

## Long Context

- Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#224)
- Gemma 3 27B: 27.6 (#288)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Gemma 3 27B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1206 | 1333 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 33.3% |

## Writing & Preference

- Amazon Nova Micro: 39.7 (#242)
- Gemma 3 27B: 52.7 (#161)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Gemma 3 27B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1208 | 1358 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1172 | 1346 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1178 | 1344 |
| LiveBench Language | 15.8% | 34.6% |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 79.9% |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 1266 |
| WildBench | 74.3% | — |

## FAQ

### Is Amazon Nova Micro better than Gemma 3 27B?

Amazon Nova Micro and Gemma 3 27B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (29.9 vs 30.5), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

### Which is cheaper, Amazon Nova Micro or Gemma 3 27B?

Amazon Nova Micro is cheaper. It lists at $0.035 per million input tokens and $0.14 per million output tokens; Gemma 3 27B lists at $0.08 and $0.16.

### Is Amazon Nova Micro or Gemma 3 27B better for coding?

Amazon Nova Micro scores higher on coding benchmarks: 30.0 versus 22.1 in the Noometry coding category.

### Which has the bigger context window?

Gemma 3 27B does, with 131K tokens against 128K.

### How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Micro and Gemma 3 27B share?

26 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Micro has 32 scored results on Noometry and Gemma 3 27B has 43.