# Amazon Nova Micro vs GLM-4.5

> GLM-4.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.0 to 30.4 on the Noometry Index. Amazon Nova Micro costs 16× less per token, which makes it the better buy when GLM-4.5's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/amazon-nova-micro-vs-glm-4-5
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 17

## Summary

- They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Micro scores higher in 0 categories and GLM-4.5 in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where GLM-4.5 leads 57.5 to 39.5.
- Amazon Nova Micro is cheaper at $0.035 / $0.14 per million input/output tokens, against $0.60 / $2.20 for GLM-4.5.
- GLM-4.5 accepts more context: 131K tokens versus 128K.
- GLM-4.5 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Amazon Nova Micro | GLM-4.5 |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | Z.ai (Zhipu) |
| Noometry Index | 30.4 | 42.0 |
| Rank | 294 | 122 |
| Context | 128K | 131K |
| Input $/M | $0.035 | $0.60 |
| Output $/M | $0.14 | $2.20 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Amazon Nova Micro: 30.5 (#295)
- GLM-4.5: 41.4 (#125)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | GLM-4.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1218 | 1434 |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | — | 54.2% |
| WeirdML | — | 40.6% |
| LiveBench Coding | 20.2% | — |
| ALE-Bench | — | 344.82 |
| AlgoTune | — | 1.52 |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Amazon Nova Micro: 22.1 (#132)
- GLM-4.5: —

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | GLM-4.5 |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 22.3% | — |

## Reasoning

- Amazon Nova Micro: 17.4 (#294)
- GLM-4.5: 28.6 (#100)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | GLM-4.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1191 | 1429 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 57.9% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 25.1% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 34% | — |
| LiveBench | 29.6% | — |

## Math

- Amazon Nova Micro: 26.9 (#254)
- GLM-4.5: 39.0 (#116)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | GLM-4.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1206 | 1427 |
| Omni-MATH | 21.4% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 34.5% | — |

## Knowledge

- Amazon Nova Micro: 29.6 (#237)
- GLM-4.5: 35.9 (#179)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | GLM-4.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1184 | 1433 |
| Humanity's Last Exam | — | 8.3% |
| MMLU-Pro | 51.1% | — |
| Confabulations | — | 11.3% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 5.5% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 38.3% | — |
| MMLU | 70.8% | — |

## Multilingual

- Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#239)
- GLM-4.5: 52.8 (#77)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | GLM-4.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1186 | 1417 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1209 | 1465 |
| LMArena French | 1238 | 1418 |
| LMArena German | 1192 | 1407 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1154 | 1415 |
| LMArena Korean | 1150 | 1380 |
| LMArena Russian | 1185 | 1414 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1225 | 1454 |

## Instruction Following

- Amazon Nova Micro: 56.3 (#272)
- GLM-4.5: 74.1 (#104)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | GLM-4.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1174 | 1404 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 48% | — |
| IFEval | 76% | — |

## Long Context

- Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#229)
- GLM-4.5: 38.2 (#201)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | GLM-4.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1205 | 1412 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 58.3% |

## Writing & Preference

- Amazon Nova Micro: 39.5 (#247)
- GLM-4.5: 57.5 (#127)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | GLM-4.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1208 | 1430 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1172 | 1395 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1178 | 1415 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 73.4% |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 1343 |
| WildBench | 74.3% | — |
| LiveBench Language | 15.8% | — |

## FAQ

### Is Amazon Nova Micro better than GLM-4.5?

GLM-4.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.0 to 30.4 on the Noometry Index. Amazon Nova Micro costs 16× less per token, which makes it the better buy when GLM-4.5's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

### Which is cheaper, Amazon Nova Micro or GLM-4.5?

Amazon Nova Micro is cheaper. It lists at $0.035 per million input tokens and $0.14 per million output tokens; GLM-4.5 lists at $0.60 and $2.20.

### Is Amazon Nova Micro or GLM-4.5 better for coding?

GLM-4.5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 41.4 versus 30.5 in the Noometry coding category.

### Which has the bigger context window?

GLM-4.5 does, with 131K tokens against 128K.

### How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Micro and GLM-4.5 share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Micro has 32 scored results on Noometry and GLM-4.5 has 27.