# Amazon Nova Micro vs Llama 4 Maverick

> Amazon Nova Micro and Llama 4 Maverick score almost the same on the Noometry Index (30.4 vs 30.9), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/amazon-nova-micro-vs-llama-4-maverick
- Last updated: 2026-10-12
- Shared benchmarks: 24

## Summary

- They share 24 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Micro scores higher in 5 categories and Llama 4 Maverick in 4 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in instruction following, where Llama 4 Maverick leads 71.7 to 56.3.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is MMLU-Pro: 51.1% for Amazon Nova Micro and 81% for Llama 4 Maverick.
- Amazon Nova Micro is cheaper at $0.035 / $0.14 per million input/output tokens, against $0.19 / $0.65 for Llama 4 Maverick.
- Llama 4 Maverick has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Amazon Nova Micro | Llama 4 Maverick |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | Meta |
| Noometry Index | 30.4 | 30.9 |
| Rank | 294 | 282 |
| Context | 128K | 128K |
| Input $/M | $0.035 | $0.19 |
| Output $/M | $0.14 | $0.65 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Amazon Nova Micro: 30.5 (#295)
- Llama 4 Maverick: 26.6 (#324)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Llama 4 Maverick |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1218 | 1302 |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | — | 21% |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 15.6% |
| SciCode | — | 33.1% |
| WeirdML | — | 24.5% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 49.7% |
| LiveBench Coding | 20.2% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 61.4% |
| ALE-Bench | — | 172.97 |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Amazon Nova Micro: 22.1 (#132)
- Llama 4 Maverick: 28.2 (#91)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Llama 4 Maverick |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 22.3% | 37.3% |

## Reasoning

- Amazon Nova Micro: 17.4 (#294)
- Llama 4 Maverick: 10.1 (#342)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Llama 4 Maverick |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1191 | 1281 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | — | 0% |
| SimpleBench | — | 27.7% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 55.9% |
| NYT Connections (extended) | — | 8% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | — | 4.4% |
| CritPt | — | 0% |
| EnigmaEval | — | 0.6% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 25.1% | — |
| DTBench | — | 61.9% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 34% | — |
| LMCA | — | 15.9% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 132.2 |
| ForecastBench | — | 57.5 |
| LiveBench | 29.6% | — |

## Math

- Amazon Nova Micro: 26.9 (#254)
- Llama 4 Maverick: 26.0 (#262)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Llama 4 Maverick |
|---|---|---|
| Omni-MATH | 21.4% | 42.2% |
| LMArena Math | 1206 | 1299 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 20.6% |
| LiveBench Math | 34.5% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 73% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 0.7% |

## Knowledge

- Amazon Nova Micro: 29.6 (#237)
- Llama 4 Maverick: 33.4 (#204)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Llama 4 Maverick |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU-Pro | 51.1% | 81% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 5.5% | 8.2% |
| GPQA (HELM) | 38.3% | 65% |
| LMArena Expert | 1184 | 1259 |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 67% |
| Humanity's Last Exam | — | 5.7% |
| Confabulations | — | 22.6% |
| MMLU | 70.8% | — |

## Multimodal

- Amazon Nova Micro: —
- Llama 4 Maverick: 31.6 (#105)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Llama 4 Maverick |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1142 |
| GeoBench | — | 52% |
| SpatialViz-Bench | — | 31.8% |

## Multilingual

- Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#239)
- Llama 4 Maverick: 42.2 (#195)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Llama 4 Maverick |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1186 | 1269 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1209 | 1277 |
| LMArena French | 1238 | 1259 |
| LMArena German | 1192 | 1291 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1154 | 1207 |
| LMArena Korean | 1150 | 1203 |
| LMArena Russian | 1185 | 1286 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1225 | 1293 |

## Instruction Following

- Amazon Nova Micro: 56.3 (#272)
- Llama 4 Maverick: 71.7 (#146)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Llama 4 Maverick |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | 76% | 90.8% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1174 | 1267 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 48% | — |

## Long Context

- Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#229)
- Llama 4 Maverick: 31.4 (#279)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Llama 4 Maverick |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1205 | 1280 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 46.2% |

## Writing & Preference

- Amazon Nova Micro: 39.5 (#247)
- Llama 4 Maverick: 38.8 (#252)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Llama 4 Maverick |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1208 | 1287 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1172 | 1267 |
| WildBench | 74.3% | 80% |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1178 | 1289 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 62% |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 860 |
| LiveBench Language | 15.8% | — |

## FAQ

### Is Amazon Nova Micro better than Llama 4 Maverick?

Amazon Nova Micro and Llama 4 Maverick score almost the same on the Noometry Index (30.4 vs 30.9), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

### Which is cheaper, Amazon Nova Micro or Llama 4 Maverick?

Amazon Nova Micro is cheaper. It lists at $0.035 per million input tokens and $0.14 per million output tokens; Llama 4 Maverick lists at $0.19 and $0.65.

### Is Amazon Nova Micro or Llama 4 Maverick better for coding?

Amazon Nova Micro scores higher on coding benchmarks: 30.5 versus 26.6 in the Noometry coding category.

### Which has the bigger context window?

Both accept 128K tokens.

### How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Micro and Llama 4 Maverick share?

24 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Micro has 32 scored results on Noometry and Llama 4 Maverick has 54.