# Amazon Nova Micro vs GLM-4.6

> GLM-4.6 is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.9 to 29.9 on the Noometry Index. Amazon Nova Micro costs 16× less per token, which makes it the better buy when GLM-4.6's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/amazon-nova-micro-vs-glm-4-6
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 19

## Summary

- They share 19 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Micro scores higher in 0 categories and GLM-4.6 in 9 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where GLM-4.6 leads 61.3 to 39.7.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard: 22.3% for Amazon Nova Micro and 72.4% for GLM-4.6.
- Amazon Nova Micro is cheaper at $0.035 / $0.14 per million input/output tokens, against $0.60 / $2.20 for GLM-4.6.
- GLM-4.6 accepts more context: 205K tokens versus 128K.
- GLM-4.6 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Amazon Nova Micro | GLM-4.6 |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | Z.ai (Zhipu) |
| Noometry Index | 29.9 | 40.9 |
| Rank | 290 | 132 |
| Context | 128K | 205K |
| Input $/M | $0.035 | $0.60 |
| Output $/M | $0.14 | $2.20 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Amazon Nova Micro: 30.0 (#289)
- GLM-4.6: 39.9 (#137)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | GLM-4.6 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1218 | 1449 |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | — | 55.4% |
| LMArena WebDev | — | 1339 |
| SciCode | — | 38.4% |
| LiveBench Coding | 20.2% | — |
| ALE-Bench | — | 340.82 |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Amazon Nova Micro: 21.9 (#125)
- GLM-4.6: 32.1 (#60)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | GLM-4.6 |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 22.3% | 72.4% |
| Terminal-Bench | — | 24.5% |

## Reasoning

- Amazon Nova Micro: 16.7 (#289)
- GLM-4.6: 23.1 (#168)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | GLM-4.6 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1191 | 1440 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 47.4% |
| CritPt | — | 1.1% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 25.1% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 34% | — |
| LiveBench | 29.6% | — |

## Math

- Amazon Nova Micro: 24.9 (#252)
- GLM-4.6: 36.4 (#115)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | GLM-4.6 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1206 | 1431 |
| Omni-MATH | 21.4% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 34.5% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 3.8% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | — | 2.1% |

## Knowledge

- Amazon Nova Micro: 29.2 (#231)
- GLM-4.6: 39.6 (#118)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | GLM-4.6 |
|---|---|---|
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 5.5% | 9.5% |
| LMArena Expert | 1184 | 1432 |
| MMLU-Pro | 51.1% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 38.3% | — |
| MMLU | 70.8% | — |

## Multilingual

- Amazon Nova Micro: 36.7 (#234)
- GLM-4.6: 53.6 (#62)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | GLM-4.6 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1186 | 1426 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1209 | 1500 |
| LMArena French | 1237 | 1459 |
| LMArena German | 1192 | 1447 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1154 | 1394 |
| LMArena Korean | 1150 | 1401 |
| LMArena Russian | 1185 | 1418 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1225 | 1436 |

## Instruction Following

- Amazon Nova Micro: 56.6 (#267)
- GLM-4.6: 74.5 (#93)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | GLM-4.6 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1174 | 1410 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 48% | — |
| IFEval | 76% | — |

## Long Context

- Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#224)
- GLM-4.6: 43.4 (#91)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | GLM-4.6 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1206 | 1423 |

## Writing & Preference

- Amazon Nova Micro: 39.7 (#242)
- GLM-4.6: 61.3 (#86)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | GLM-4.6 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1208 | 1440 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1172 | 1411 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1178 | 1427 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 1411 |
| WildBench | 74.3% | — |
| LiveBench Language | 15.8% | — |

## FAQ

### Is Amazon Nova Micro better than GLM-4.6?

GLM-4.6 is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.9 to 29.9 on the Noometry Index. Amazon Nova Micro costs 16× less per token, which makes it the better buy when GLM-4.6's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

### Which is cheaper, Amazon Nova Micro or GLM-4.6?

Amazon Nova Micro is cheaper. It lists at $0.035 per million input tokens and $0.14 per million output tokens; GLM-4.6 lists at $0.60 and $2.20.

### Is Amazon Nova Micro or GLM-4.6 better for coding?

GLM-4.6 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 39.9 versus 30.0 in the Noometry coding category.

### Which has the bigger context window?

GLM-4.6 does, with 205K tokens against 128K.

### How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Micro and GLM-4.6 share?

19 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Micro has 32 scored results on Noometry and GLM-4.6 has 29.