# Amazon Nova Micro vs Muse Spark 1.2

> Muse Spark 1.2 is the stronger model overall, scoring 50.3 to 30.4 on the Noometry Index. Amazon Nova Micro costs 33× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Muse Spark 1.2's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/amazon-nova-micro-vs-muse-spark-1-2
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 14

## Summary

- They share 14 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Micro scores higher in 0 categories and Muse Spark 1.2 in 9 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Muse Spark 1.2 leads 51.3 to 17.4.
- Amazon Nova Micro is cheaper at $0.035 / $0.14 per million input/output tokens, against $1.25 / $4.25 for Muse Spark 1.2.
- Muse Spark 1.2 accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 128K.

## Snapshot

| | Amazon Nova Micro | Muse Spark 1.2 |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | Meta |
| Noometry Index | 30.4 | 50.3 |
| Rank | 294 | 48 |
| Context | 128K | 1.05M |
| Input $/M | $0.035 | $1.25 |
| Output $/M | $0.14 | $4.25 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |

## Coding

- Amazon Nova Micro: 30.5 (#295)
- Muse Spark 1.2: 49.2 (#51)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Muse Spark 1.2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1218 | 1495 |
| DeepSWE | — | 54.9% |
| LMArena WebDev | — | 1533 |
| FrontierSWE | — | 12% |
| SciCode | — | 56.4% |
| WeirdML | — | 60.3% |
| LiveBench Coding | 20.2% | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Amazon Nova Micro: 22.1 (#132)
- Muse Spark 1.2: 29.4 (#87)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Muse Spark 1.2 |
|---|---|---|
| APEX-Agents | — | 36.4% |
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 22.3% | — |
| GDP.pdf | — | 16% |

## Reasoning

- Amazon Nova Micro: 17.4 (#294)
- Muse Spark 1.2: 51.3 (#34)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Muse Spark 1.2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1191 | 1486 |
| SimpleBench | — | 74.5% |
| NYT Connections (extended) | — | 79.2% |
| CritPt | — | 17.7% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 25.1% | — |
| DTBench | — | 94.7% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 34% | — |
| LMCA | — | 48.4% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 154.87 |
| LiveBench | 29.6% | — |

## Math

- Amazon Nova Micro: 26.9 (#254)
- Muse Spark 1.2: 46.4 (#70)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Muse Spark 1.2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1206 | 1471 |
| ProofBench | — | 43% |
| Omni-MATH | 21.4% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 34.5% | — |

## Knowledge

- Amazon Nova Micro: 29.6 (#237)
- Muse Spark 1.2: 54.1 (#53)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Muse Spark 1.2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1184 | 1480 |
| SimpleQA Verified | — | 60.3% |
| MMLU-Pro | 51.1% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 5.5% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 38.3% | — |
| MMLU | 70.8% | — |

## Multimodal

- Amazon Nova Micro: —
- Muse Spark 1.2: 43.4 (#25)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Muse Spark 1.2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1305 |

## Multilingual

- Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#239)
- Muse Spark 1.2: 57.1 (#11)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Muse Spark 1.2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1186 | 1478 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1209 | 1511 |
| LMArena French | 1238 | 1513 |
| LMArena Russian | 1185 | 1487 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1225 | 1498 |
| LMArena German | 1192 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1154 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1150 | — |

## Instruction Following

- Amazon Nova Micro: 56.3 (#272)
- Muse Spark 1.2: 76.7 (#36)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Muse Spark 1.2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1174 | 1461 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 48% | — |
| IFEval | 76% | — |

## Long Context

- Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#229)
- Muse Spark 1.2: 45.2 (#48)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Muse Spark 1.2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1205 | 1475 |

## Writing & Preference

- Amazon Nova Micro: 39.5 (#247)
- Muse Spark 1.2: 72.3 (#14)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Muse Spark 1.2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1208 | 1482 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1172 | 1449 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1178 | 1494 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 1840 |
| WildBench | 74.3% | — |
| LiveBench Language | 15.8% | — |

## FAQ

### Is Amazon Nova Micro better than Muse Spark 1.2?

Muse Spark 1.2 is the stronger model overall, scoring 50.3 to 30.4 on the Noometry Index. Amazon Nova Micro costs 33× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Muse Spark 1.2's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

### Which is cheaper, Amazon Nova Micro or Muse Spark 1.2?

Amazon Nova Micro is cheaper. It lists at $0.035 per million input tokens and $0.14 per million output tokens; Muse Spark 1.2 lists at $1.25 and $4.25.

### Is Amazon Nova Micro or Muse Spark 1.2 better for coding?

Muse Spark 1.2 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 49.2 versus 30.5 in the Noometry coding category.

### Which has the bigger context window?

Muse Spark 1.2 does, with 1.05M tokens against 128K.

### How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Micro and Muse Spark 1.2 share?

14 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Micro has 32 scored results on Noometry and Muse Spark 1.2 has 31.