# Amazon Nova Micro vs GLM-5V-Turbo

> GLM-5V-Turbo is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.8 to 30.4 on the Noometry Index. Amazon Nova Micro costs 31× less per token, which makes it the better buy when GLM-5V-Turbo's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/amazon-nova-micro-vs-glm-5v-turbo
- Last updated: 2026-10-11
- Shared benchmarks: 16

## Summary

- They share 16 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Micro scores higher in 0 categories and GLM-5V-Turbo in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where GLM-5V-Turbo leads 62.5 to 39.5.
- Amazon Nova Micro is cheaper at $0.035 / $0.14 per million input/output tokens, against $1.20 / $4 for GLM-5V-Turbo.
- GLM-5V-Turbo accepts more context: 200K tokens versus 128K.

## Snapshot

| | Amazon Nova Micro | GLM-5V-Turbo |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | Z.ai (Zhipu) |
| Noometry Index | 30.4 | 43.8 |
| Rank | 294 | 84 |
| Context | 128K | 200K |
| Input $/M | $0.035 | $1.20 |
| Output $/M | $0.14 | $4 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |

## Coding

- Amazon Nova Micro: 30.5 (#295)
- GLM-5V-Turbo: 42.1 (#111)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | GLM-5V-Turbo |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1218 | 1466 |
| LMArena WebDev | — | 1401 |
| LiveBench Coding | 20.2% | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Amazon Nova Micro: 22.1 (#132)
- GLM-5V-Turbo: —

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | GLM-5V-Turbo |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 22.3% | — |

## Reasoning

- Amazon Nova Micro: 17.4 (#294)
- GLM-5V-Turbo: 29.7 (#89)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | GLM-5V-Turbo |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1191 | 1443 |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 25.1% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 34% | — |
| LiveBench | 29.6% | — |

## Math

- Amazon Nova Micro: 26.9 (#254)
- GLM-5V-Turbo: 39.4 (#106)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | GLM-5V-Turbo |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1206 | 1441 |
| Omni-MATH | 21.4% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 34.5% | — |

## Knowledge

- Amazon Nova Micro: 29.6 (#237)
- GLM-5V-Turbo: 40.6 (#117)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | GLM-5V-Turbo |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1184 | 1452 |
| MMLU-Pro | 51.1% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 5.5% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 38.3% | — |
| MMLU | 70.8% | — |

## Multimodal

- Amazon Nova Micro: —
- GLM-5V-Turbo: 40.9 (#42)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | GLM-5V-Turbo |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1264 |
| LMArena Document | — | 1416 |

## Multilingual

- Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#239)
- GLM-5V-Turbo: 53.0 (#73)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | GLM-5V-Turbo |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1186 | 1420 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1209 | 1488 |
| LMArena French | 1238 | 1444 |
| LMArena German | 1192 | 1423 |
| LMArena Korean | 1150 | 1396 |
| LMArena Russian | 1185 | 1431 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1225 | 1450 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1154 | — |

## Instruction Following

- Amazon Nova Micro: 56.3 (#272)
- GLM-5V-Turbo: 75.0 (#80)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | GLM-5V-Turbo |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1174 | 1423 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 48% | — |
| IFEval | 76% | — |

## Long Context

- Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#229)
- GLM-5V-Turbo: 44.0 (#80)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | GLM-5V-Turbo |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1205 | 1438 |

## Writing & Preference

- Amazon Nova Micro: 39.5 (#247)
- GLM-5V-Turbo: 62.5 (#73)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | GLM-5V-Turbo |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1208 | 1437 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1172 | 1416 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1178 | 1432 |
| WildBench | 74.3% | — |
| LiveBench Language | 15.8% | — |

## FAQ

### Is Amazon Nova Micro better than GLM-5V-Turbo?

GLM-5V-Turbo is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.8 to 30.4 on the Noometry Index. Amazon Nova Micro costs 31× less per token, which makes it the better buy when GLM-5V-Turbo's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

### Which is cheaper, Amazon Nova Micro or GLM-5V-Turbo?

Amazon Nova Micro is cheaper. It lists at $0.035 per million input tokens and $0.14 per million output tokens; GLM-5V-Turbo lists at $1.20 and $4.

### Is Amazon Nova Micro or GLM-5V-Turbo better for coding?

GLM-5V-Turbo scores higher on coding benchmarks: 42.1 versus 30.5 in the Noometry coding category.

### Which has the bigger context window?

GLM-5V-Turbo does, with 200K tokens against 128K.

### How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Micro and GLM-5V-Turbo share?

16 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Micro has 32 scored results on Noometry and GLM-5V-Turbo has 19.