# Amazon Nova Micro vs Inkling-Small

> Inkling-Small is the stronger model overall, scoring 46.5 to 29.9 on the Noometry Index. Amazon Nova Micro costs 10× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Inkling-Small's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/amazon-nova-micro-vs-inkling-small
- 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 Inkling-Small in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Inkling-Small leads 39.0 to 16.7.
- Amazon Nova Micro is cheaper at $0.035 / $0.14 per million input/output tokens, against $0.45 / $1.20 for Inkling-Small.
- Inkling-Small accepts more context: 524K tokens versus 128K.
- Inkling-Small has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Amazon Nova Micro | Inkling-Small |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | Thinking Machines Lab |
| Noometry Index | 29.9 | 46.5 |
| Rank | 290 | 57 |
| Context | 128K | 524K |
| Input $/M | $0.035 | $0.45 |
| Output $/M | $0.14 | $1.20 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Amazon Nova Micro: 30.0 (#289)
- Inkling-Small: 43.3 (#80)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Inkling-Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1218 | 1451 |
| LMArena WebDev | — | 1408 |
| SciCode | — | 48.7% |
| LiveBench Coding | 20.2% | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Amazon Nova Micro: 21.9 (#125)
- Inkling-Small: —

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Inkling-Small |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 22.3% | — |

## Reasoning

- Amazon Nova Micro: 16.7 (#289)
- Inkling-Small: 39.0 (#53)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Inkling-Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1191 | 1424 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | — | 40.1% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | — | 84% |
| CritPt | — | 8.3% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 18% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 25.1% | — |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | — | 6% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 34% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 150.13 |
| LiveBench | 29.6% | — |

## Math

- Amazon Nova Micro: 24.9 (#252)
- Inkling-Small: 44.9 (#65)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Inkling-Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1206 | 1453 |
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | — | 46.3% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 | — | 17.1% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 90% |
| ProofBench | — | 6% |
| Omni-MATH | 21.4% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 34.5% | — |

## Knowledge

- Amazon Nova Micro: 29.2 (#231)
- Inkling-Small: 48.3 (#71)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Inkling-Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1184 | 1442 |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 88.5% |
| SimpleQA Verified | — | 19.1% |
| MMLU-Pro | 51.1% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 5.5% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 38.3% | — |
| MMLU | 70.8% | — |

## Multimodal

- Amazon Nova Micro: —
- Inkling-Small: 38.4 (#59)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Inkling-Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1235 |

## Multilingual

- Amazon Nova Micro: 36.7 (#234)
- Inkling-Small: 51.7 (#102)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Inkling-Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1186 | 1400 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1209 | 1458 |
| LMArena French | 1237 | 1438 |
| LMArena German | 1192 | 1412 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1154 | 1399 |
| LMArena Korean | 1150 | 1355 |
| LMArena Russian | 1185 | 1392 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1225 | 1426 |

## Instruction Following

- Amazon Nova Micro: 56.6 (#267)
- Inkling-Small: 73.9 (#112)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Inkling-Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1174 | 1397 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 48% | — |
| IFEval | 76% | — |

## Long Context

- Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#224)
- Inkling-Small: 42.7 (#113)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Inkling-Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1206 | 1401 |

## Writing & Preference

- Amazon Nova Micro: 39.7 (#242)
- Inkling-Small: 59.8 (#102)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Inkling-Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1208 | 1413 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1172 | 1330 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1178 | 1420 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 1491 |
| WildBench | 74.3% | — |
| LiveBench Language | 15.8% | — |

## FAQ

### Is Amazon Nova Micro better than Inkling-Small?

Inkling-Small is the stronger model overall, scoring 46.5 to 29.9 on the Noometry Index. Amazon Nova Micro costs 10× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Inkling-Small's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

### Which is cheaper, Amazon Nova Micro or Inkling-Small?

Amazon Nova Micro is cheaper. It lists at $0.035 per million input tokens and $0.14 per million output tokens; Inkling-Small lists at $0.45 and $1.20.

### Is Amazon Nova Micro or Inkling-Small better for coding?

Inkling-Small scores higher on coding benchmarks: 43.3 versus 30.0 in the Noometry coding category.

### Which has the bigger context window?

Inkling-Small does, with 524K tokens against 128K.

### How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Micro and Inkling-Small share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Micro has 32 scored results on Noometry and Inkling-Small has 33.