# Amazon Nova Micro vs Llama 3-8B

> Amazon Nova Micro is the stronger model overall, scoring 29.9 to 25.3 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/amazon-nova-micro-vs-llama-3-8b
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 18

## Summary

- They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Micro scores higher in 6 categories and Llama 3-8B in 2 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Amazon Nova Micro leads 29.2 to 7.8.
- Amazon Nova Micro is cheaper at $0.035 / $0.14 per million input/output tokens, against $0.14 / $0.14 for Llama 3-8B.
- Amazon Nova Micro accepts more context: 128K tokens versus 8K.
- Llama 3-8B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Amazon Nova Micro | Llama 3-8B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | Meta |
| Noometry Index | 29.9 | 25.3 |
| Rank | 290 | 338 |
| Context | 128K | 8K |
| Input $/M | $0.035 | $0.14 |
| Output $/M | $0.14 | $0.14 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Amazon Nova Micro: 30.0 (#289)
- Llama 3-8B: 30.5 (#285)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Llama 3-8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1218 | 1152 |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 31.9% |
| LiveBench Coding | 20.2% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 36.9% |
| HumanEval+ | — | 56.7% |
| MBPP+ | — | 54.8% |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Amazon Nova Micro: 21.9 (#125)
- Llama 3-8B: —

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Llama 3-8B |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 22.3% | — |

## Reasoning

- Amazon Nova Micro: 16.7 (#289)
- Llama 3-8B: 13.8 (#321)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Llama 3-8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1191 | 1133 |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 0% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 25.1% | — |
| DTBench | — | 43.9% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 34% | — |
| Adversarial NLI | — | 57.3% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 116.33 |
| ForecastBench | — | 58.6 |
| LiveBench | 29.6% | — |
| WinoGrande | — | 75.7% |

## Math

- Amazon Nova Micro: 24.9 (#252)
- Llama 3-8B: 8.3 (#317)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Llama 3-8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1206 | 1151 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 1.9% |
| Omni-MATH | 21.4% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 34.5% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 6.1% |

## Knowledge

- Amazon Nova Micro: 29.2 (#231)
- Llama 3-8B: 7.8 (#303)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Llama 3-8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1184 | 1113 |
| MMLU | 70.8% | 68.8% |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 26.1% |
| MMLU-Pro | 51.1% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 5.5% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 38.3% | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 82.8% |
| OpenBookQA | — | 82.6% |
| TriviaQA | — | 67.7% |

## Multilingual

- Amazon Nova Micro: 36.7 (#234)
- Llama 3-8B: 31.0 (#256)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Llama 3-8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1186 | 1098 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1209 | 1076 |
| LMArena French | 1237 | 1158 |
| LMArena German | 1192 | 1104 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1154 | 967 |
| LMArena Korean | 1150 | 1003 |
| LMArena Russian | 1185 | 1109 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1225 | 1172 |

## Instruction Following

- Amazon Nova Micro: 56.6 (#267)
- Llama 3-8B: 58.7 (#255)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Llama 3-8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1174 | 1127 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 48% | — |
| IFEval | 76% | — |

## Long Context

- Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#224)
- Llama 3-8B: 34.2 (#246)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Llama 3-8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1206 | 1128 |

## Writing & Preference

- Amazon Nova Micro: 39.7 (#242)
- Llama 3-8B: 37.7 (#251)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Llama 3-8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1208 | 1166 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1172 | 1150 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1178 | 1152 |
| WildBench | 74.3% | — |
| LiveBench Language | 15.8% | — |

## FAQ

### Is Amazon Nova Micro better than Llama 3-8B?

Amazon Nova Micro is the stronger model overall, scoring 29.9 to 25.3 on the Noometry Index.

### Which is cheaper, Amazon Nova Micro or Llama 3-8B?

Amazon Nova Micro is cheaper. It lists at $0.035 per million input tokens and $0.14 per million output tokens; Llama 3-8B lists at $0.14 and $0.14.

### Is Amazon Nova Micro or Llama 3-8B better for coding?

They score almost the same on coding (30.0 vs 30.5); test both on your own repository before choosing.

### Which has the bigger context window?

Amazon Nova Micro does, with 128K tokens against 8K.

### How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Micro and Llama 3-8B share?

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Micro has 32 scored results on Noometry and Llama 3-8B has 34.