# Amazon Nova Micro vs Llama 3.2 90B

> Amazon Nova Micro is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.4 to 27.5 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/amazon-nova-micro-vs-llama-3-2-90b
- Last updated: 2026-10-12
- Shared benchmarks: 1

## Summary

- They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Amazon Nova Micro scores higher in 2 categories and Llama 3.2 90B in 2 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Amazon Nova Micro leads 26.9 to 11.1.
- Llama 3.2 90B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Amazon Nova Micro | Llama 3.2 90B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | Meta |
| Noometry Index | 30.4 | 27.5 |
| Rank | 294 | 331 |
| Context | 128K | — |
| Input $/M | $0.035 | — |
| Output $/M | $0.14 | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Amazon Nova Micro: 30.5 (#295)
- Llama 3.2 90B: —

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Llama 3.2 90B |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Coding | 20.2% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1218 | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Amazon Nova Micro: 22.1 (#132)
- Llama 3.2 90B: 30.0 (#80)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Llama 3.2 90B |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 22.3% | — |
| BALROG | — | 27.3% |

## Reasoning

- Amazon Nova Micro: 17.4 (#294)
- Llama 3.2 90B: 21.7 (#217)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Llama 3.2 90B |
|---|---|---|
| EnigmaEval | — | 0.4% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 25.1% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1191 | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 34% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 125.5 |
| LiveBench | 29.6% | — |

## Math

- Amazon Nova Micro: 26.9 (#254)
- Llama 3.2 90B: 11.1 (#308)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Llama 3.2 90B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 2.6% |
| Omni-MATH | 21.4% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 34.5% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1206 | — |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 39.4% |

## Knowledge

- Amazon Nova Micro: 29.6 (#237)
- Llama 3.2 90B: 21.7 (#274)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Llama 3.2 90B |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU | 70.8% | 80.3% |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 41% |
| MMLU-Pro | 51.1% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 5.5% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 38.3% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1184 | — |

## Multimodal

- Amazon Nova Micro: —
- Llama 3.2 90B: 25.4 (#124)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Llama 3.2 90B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1000 |
| GeoBench | — | 52% |

## Multilingual

- Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#239)
- Llama 3.2 90B: —

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Llama 3.2 90B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1186 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1209 | — |
| LMArena French | 1238 | — |
| LMArena German | 1192 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1154 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1150 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1185 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1225 | — |

## Instruction Following

- Amazon Nova Micro: 56.3 (#272)
- Llama 3.2 90B: —

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Llama 3.2 90B |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 48% | — |
| IFEval | 76% | — |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1174 | — |

## Long Context

- Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#229)
- Llama 3.2 90B: —

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Llama 3.2 90B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1205 | — |

## Writing & Preference

- Amazon Nova Micro: 39.5 (#247)
- Llama 3.2 90B: —

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Llama 3.2 90B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1208 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1172 | — |
| WildBench | 74.3% | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1178 | — |
| LiveBench Language | 15.8% | — |

## FAQ

### Is Amazon Nova Micro better than Llama 3.2 90B?

Amazon Nova Micro is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.4 to 27.5 on the Noometry Index.

### How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Micro and Llama 3.2 90B share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Amazon Nova Micro has 32 scored results on Noometry and Llama 3.2 90B has 9.