# Amazon Nova Micro vs Grok-2 (Dec 2024)

> Grok-2 (Dec 2024) is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.7 to 30.4 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/amazon-nova-micro-vs-grok-2
- Last updated: 2026-10-11
- Shared benchmarks: 24

## Summary

- They share 24 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Micro scores higher in 2 categories and Grok-2 (Dec 2024) in 6 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in instruction following, where Grok-2 (Dec 2024) leads 66.9 to 56.3.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is LiveBench Language: 15.8% for Amazon Nova Micro and 45.6% for Grok-2 (Dec 2024).

## Snapshot

| | Amazon Nova Micro | Grok-2 (Dec 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | xAI |
| Noometry Index | 30.4 | 33.7 |
| Rank | 294 | 239 |
| Context | 128K | — |
| Input $/M | $0.035 | — |
| Output $/M | $0.14 | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |

## Coding

- Amazon Nova Micro: 30.5 (#295)
- Grok-2 (Dec 2024): 33.3 (#258)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Grok-2 (Dec 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Coding | 20.2% | 46.4% |
| LMArena Coding | 1218 | 1287 |
| WeirdML | — | 22.2% |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Amazon Nova Micro: 22.1 (#132)
- Grok-2 (Dec 2024): —

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Grok-2 (Dec 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 22.3% | — |

## Reasoning

- Amazon Nova Micro: 17.4 (#294)
- Grok-2 (Dec 2024): 16.9 (#299)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Grok-2 (Dec 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Reasoning | 25.1% | 54.8% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1191 | 1272 |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 34% | 54.5% |
| LiveBench | 29.6% | 54.3% |
| SimpleBench | — | 22.7% |
| DTBench | — | 65.2% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 130.48 |

## Math

- Amazon Nova Micro: 26.9 (#254)
- Grok-2 (Dec 2024): 20.8 (#284)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Grok-2 (Dec 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Math | 34.5% | 54.9% |
| LMArena Math | 1206 | 1283 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 11.5% |
| Omni-MATH | 21.4% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 63.5% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 0.7% |

## Knowledge

- Amazon Nova Micro: 29.6 (#237)
- Grok-2 (Dec 2024): 29.8 (#233)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Grok-2 (Dec 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1184 | 1254 |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 53.8% |
| MMLU-Pro | 51.1% | — |
| Confabulations | — | 20.1% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 5.5% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 38.3% | — |
| MMLU | 70.8% | — |

## Multilingual

- Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#239)
- Grok-2 (Dec 2024): 43.1 (#188)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Grok-2 (Dec 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1186 | 1282 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1209 | 1289 |
| LMArena French | 1238 | 1318 |
| LMArena German | 1192 | 1287 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1154 | 1244 |
| LMArena Korean | 1150 | 1237 |
| LMArena Russian | 1185 | 1286 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1225 | 1281 |

## Instruction Following

- Amazon Nova Micro: 56.3 (#272)
- Grok-2 (Dec 2024): 66.9 (#202)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Grok-2 (Dec 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 48% | 69.6% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1174 | 1270 |
| IFEval | 76% | — |

## Long Context

- Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#229)
- Grok-2 (Dec 2024): 38.8 (#190)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Grok-2 (Dec 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1205 | 1276 |

## Writing & Preference

- Amazon Nova Micro: 39.5 (#247)
- Grok-2 (Dec 2024): 48.6 (#198)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Grok-2 (Dec 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1208 | 1305 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1172 | 1284 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1178 | 1290 |
| LiveBench Language | 15.8% | 45.6% |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 63.6% |
| WildBench | 74.3% | — |

## FAQ

### Is Amazon Nova Micro better than Grok-2 (Dec 2024)?

Grok-2 (Dec 2024) is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.7 to 30.4 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Amazon Nova Micro or Grok-2 (Dec 2024) better for coding?

Grok-2 (Dec 2024) scores higher on coding benchmarks: 33.3 versus 30.5 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Micro and Grok-2 (Dec 2024) share?

24 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Micro has 32 scored results on Noometry and Grok-2 (Dec 2024) has 34.