# Amazon Nova Micro vs Llama 3.2 3B

> Amazon Nova Micro is the stronger model overall, scoring 29.9 to 28.4 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/amazon-nova-micro-vs-llama-3-2-3b
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 14

## Summary

- They share 14 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Micro scores higher in 7 categories and Llama 3.2 3B in 2 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Amazon Nova Micro leads 39.7 to 24.9.
- Amazon Nova Micro is cheaper at $0.035 / $0.14 per million input/output tokens, against $0.05 / $0.33 for Llama 3.2 3B.
- Llama 3.2 3B accepts more context: 131K tokens versus 128K.
- Llama 3.2 3B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Amazon Nova Micro | Llama 3.2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | Meta |
| Noometry Index | 29.9 | 28.4 |
| Rank | 290 | 318 |
| Context | 128K | 131K |
| Input $/M | $0.035 | $0.05 |
| Output $/M | $0.14 | $0.33 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Amazon Nova Micro: 30.0 (#289)
- Llama 3.2 3B: 27.1 (#314)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Llama 3.2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1218 | 1098 |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 23.4% |
| LiveBench Coding | 20.2% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 28.3% |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Amazon Nova Micro: 21.9 (#125)
- Llama 3.2 3B: 19.9 (#135)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Llama 3.2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 22.3% | 21.9% |
| BALROG | — | 10.1% |

## Reasoning

- Amazon Nova Micro: 16.7 (#289)
- Llama 3.2 3B: 20.1 (#225)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Llama 3.2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1191 | 1095 |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 25.1% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 34% | — |
| LiveBench | 29.6% | — |

## Math

- Amazon Nova Micro: 24.9 (#252)
- Llama 3.2 3B: 29.9 (#213)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Llama 3.2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1206 | 1126 |
| Omni-MATH | 21.4% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 34.5% | — |

## Knowledge

- Amazon Nova Micro: 29.2 (#231)
- Llama 3.2 3B: 29.1 (#232)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Llama 3.2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1184 | 1090 |
| MMLU-Pro | 51.1% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 5.5% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 38.3% | — |
| MMLU | 70.8% | — |

## Multilingual

- Amazon Nova Micro: 36.7 (#234)
- Llama 3.2 3B: 26.4 (#276)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Llama 3.2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1186 | 1019 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1209 | 1017 |
| LMArena German | 1192 | 1056 |
| LMArena Russian | 1185 | 949 |
| LMArena French | 1237 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1154 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1150 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1225 | — |

## Instruction Following

- Amazon Nova Micro: 56.6 (#267)
- Llama 3.2 3B: 56.3 (#270)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Llama 3.2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1174 | 1089 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 48% | — |
| IFEval | 76% | — |

## Long Context

- Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#224)
- Llama 3.2 3B: 33.4 (#256)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Llama 3.2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1206 | 1101 |

## Writing & Preference

- Amazon Nova Micro: 39.7 (#242)
- Llama 3.2 3B: 24.9 (#302)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Llama 3.2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1208 | 1110 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1172 | 1094 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1178 | 1105 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 595 |
| WildBench | 74.3% | — |
| LiveBench Language | 15.8% | — |

## FAQ

### Is Amazon Nova Micro better than Llama 3.2 3B?

Amazon Nova Micro is the stronger model overall, scoring 29.9 to 28.4 on the Noometry Index.

### Which is cheaper, Amazon Nova Micro or Llama 3.2 3B?

Amazon Nova Micro is cheaper. It lists at $0.035 per million input tokens and $0.14 per million output tokens; Llama 3.2 3B lists at $0.05 and $0.33.

### Is Amazon Nova Micro or Llama 3.2 3B better for coding?

Amazon Nova Micro scores higher on coding benchmarks: 30.0 versus 27.1 in the Noometry coding category.

### Which has the bigger context window?

Llama 3.2 3B does, with 131K tokens against 128K.

### How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Micro and Llama 3.2 3B share?

14 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Micro has 32 scored results on Noometry and Llama 3.2 3B has 18.