# Amazon Nova Micro vs Llama 3.1-70B

> Amazon Nova Micro and Llama 3.1-70B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (30.4 vs 29.6), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/amazon-nova-micro-vs-llama-3-1-70b
- Last updated: 2026-10-11
- Shared benchmarks: 23

## Summary

- They share 23 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Micro scores higher in 4 categories and Llama 3.1-70B in 5 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Amazon Nova Micro leads 26.9 to 13.5.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is MMLU-Pro: 51.1% for Amazon Nova Micro and 65.3% for Llama 3.1-70B.
- Amazon Nova Micro is cheaper at $0.035 / $0.14 per million input/output tokens, against $0.40 / $0.40 for Llama 3.1-70B.
- Llama 3.1-70B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Amazon Nova Micro | Llama 3.1-70B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | Meta |
| Noometry Index | 30.4 | 29.6 |
| Rank | 294 | 308 |
| Context | 128K | 128K |
| Input $/M | $0.035 | $0.40 |
| Output $/M | $0.14 | $0.40 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Amazon Nova Micro: 30.5 (#295)
- Llama 3.1-70B: 30.3 (#296)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Llama 3.1-70B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1218 | 1260 |
| WeirdML | — | 9% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 46.1% |
| LiveBench Coding | 20.2% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 54.8% |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Amazon Nova Micro: 22.1 (#132)
- Llama 3.1-70B: 25.1 (#112)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Llama 3.1-70B |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 22.3% | — |
| TheAgentCompany | — | 6.9% |
| BALROG | — | 27.9% |

## Reasoning

- Amazon Nova Micro: 17.4 (#294)
- Llama 3.1-70B: 21.6 (#220)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Llama 3.1-70B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1191 | 1241 |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 25.1% | — |
| DTBench | — | 60% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 34% | — |
| LMCA | — | 14.8% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 125.92 |
| LiveBench | 29.6% | — |

## Math

- Amazon Nova Micro: 26.9 (#254)
- Llama 3.1-70B: 13.5 (#304)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Llama 3.1-70B |
|---|---|---|
| Omni-MATH | 21.4% | 21% |
| LMArena Math | 1206 | 1252 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 3.6% |
| LiveBench Math | 34.5% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 36.7% |

## Knowledge

- Amazon Nova Micro: 29.6 (#237)
- Llama 3.1-70B: 24.2 (#269)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Llama 3.1-70B |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU-Pro | 51.1% | 65.3% |
| GPQA (HELM) | 38.3% | 42.6% |
| LMArena Expert | 1184 | 1209 |
| MMLU | 70.8% | 80.1% |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 44.2% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 5.5% | — |

## Multilingual

- Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#239)
- Llama 3.1-70B: 38.8 (#225)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Llama 3.1-70B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1186 | 1219 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1209 | 1215 |
| LMArena French | 1238 | 1261 |
| LMArena German | 1192 | 1222 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1154 | 1132 |
| LMArena Korean | 1150 | 1140 |
| LMArena Russian | 1185 | 1234 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1225 | 1253 |

## Instruction Following

- Amazon Nova Micro: 56.3 (#272)
- Llama 3.1-70B: 65.3 (#223)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Llama 3.1-70B |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | 76% | 82.1% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1174 | 1231 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 48% | — |

## Long Context

- Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#229)
- Llama 3.1-70B: 37.6 (#214)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Llama 3.1-70B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1205 | 1241 |

## Writing & Preference

- Amazon Nova Micro: 39.5 (#247)
- Llama 3.1-70B: 35.4 (#267)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Llama 3.1-70B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1208 | 1261 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1172 | 1232 |
| WildBench | 74.3% | 75.8% |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1178 | 1256 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 784 |
| LiveBench Language | 15.8% | — |

## FAQ

### Is Amazon Nova Micro better than Llama 3.1-70B?

Amazon Nova Micro and Llama 3.1-70B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (30.4 vs 29.6), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

### Which is cheaper, Amazon Nova Micro or Llama 3.1-70B?

Amazon Nova Micro is cheaper. It lists at $0.035 per million input tokens and $0.14 per million output tokens; Llama 3.1-70B lists at $0.40 and $0.40.

### Is Amazon Nova Micro or Llama 3.1-70B better for coding?

They score almost the same on coding (30.5 vs 30.3); test both on your own repository before choosing.

### Which has the bigger context window?

Both accept 128K tokens.

### How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Micro and Llama 3.1-70B share?

23 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Micro has 32 scored results on Noometry and Llama 3.1-70B has 35.