# Amazon Nova Micro vs Granite 4.2 30b

> Granite 4.2 30b is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.8 to 30.4 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/amazon-nova-micro-vs-granite-4-2-30b
- Last updated: 2026-10-11
- Shared benchmarks: 11

## Summary

- They share 11 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Micro scores higher in 0 categories and Granite 4.2 30b in 7 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in instruction following, where Granite 4.2 30b leads 71.2 to 56.3.
- Granite 4.2 30b has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Amazon Nova Micro | Granite 4.2 30b |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | IBM |
| Noometry Index | 30.4 | 41.8 |
| Rank | 294 | 130 |
| Context | 128K | — |
| Input $/M | $0.035 | — |
| Output $/M | $0.14 | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Amazon Nova Micro: 30.5 (#295)
- Granite 4.2 30b: 41.0 (#126)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Granite 4.2 30b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1218 | 1396 |
| LiveBench Coding | 20.2% | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Amazon Nova Micro: 22.1 (#132)
- Granite 4.2 30b: —

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Granite 4.2 30b |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 22.3% | — |

## Reasoning

- Amazon Nova Micro: 17.4 (#294)
- Granite 4.2 30b: 27.8 (#112)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Granite 4.2 30b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1191 | 1374 |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 25.1% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 34% | — |
| LiveBench | 29.6% | — |

## Math

- Amazon Nova Micro: 26.9 (#254)
- Granite 4.2 30b: —

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Granite 4.2 30b |
|---|---|---|
| Omni-MATH | 21.4% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 34.5% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1206 | — |

## Knowledge

- Amazon Nova Micro: 29.6 (#237)
- Granite 4.2 30b: 39.1 (#138)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Granite 4.2 30b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1184 | 1406 |
| MMLU-Pro | 51.1% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 5.5% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 38.3% | — |
| MMLU | 70.8% | — |

## Multilingual

- Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#239)
- Granite 4.2 30b: 47.3 (#151)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Granite 4.2 30b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1186 | 1340 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1209 | 1414 |
| LMArena Russian | 1185 | 1343 |
| LMArena French | 1238 | — |
| LMArena German | 1192 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1154 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1150 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1225 | — |

## Instruction Following

- Amazon Nova Micro: 56.3 (#272)
- Granite 4.2 30b: 71.2 (#155)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Granite 4.2 30b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1174 | 1347 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 48% | — |
| IFEval | 76% | — |

## Long Context

- Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#229)
- Granite 4.2 30b: 41.4 (#140)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Granite 4.2 30b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1205 | 1359 |

## Writing & Preference

- Amazon Nova Micro: 39.5 (#247)
- Granite 4.2 30b: 53.8 (#156)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Granite 4.2 30b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1208 | 1361 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1172 | 1288 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1178 | 1339 |
| WildBench | 74.3% | — |
| LiveBench Language | 15.8% | — |

## FAQ

### Is Amazon Nova Micro better than Granite 4.2 30b?

Granite 4.2 30b is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.8 to 30.4 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Amazon Nova Micro or Granite 4.2 30b better for coding?

Granite 4.2 30b scores higher on coding benchmarks: 41.0 versus 30.5 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Micro and Granite 4.2 30b share?

11 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Micro has 32 scored results on Noometry and Granite 4.2 30b has 11.