# Amazon Nova Micro vs Nemotron 3.5 Lightning

> Nemotron 3.5 Lightning is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.0 to 30.4 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/amazon-nova-micro-vs-nemotron-3-5-lightning
- Last updated: 2026-10-11
- Shared benchmarks: 17

## Summary

- They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Micro scores higher in 0 categories and Nemotron 3.5 Lightning in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in instruction following, where Nemotron 3.5 Lightning leads 69.6 to 56.3.
- Amazon Nova Micro is cheaper at $0.035 / $0.14 per million input/output tokens, against $0.05 / $0.20 for Nemotron 3.5 Lightning.
- Nemotron 3.5 Lightning accepts more context: 262K tokens versus 128K.
- Nemotron 3.5 Lightning has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Amazon Nova Micro | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | NVIDIA |
| Noometry Index | 30.4 | 40.0 |
| Rank | 294 | 155 |
| Context | 128K | 262K |
| Input $/M | $0.035 | $0.05 |
| Output $/M | $0.14 | $0.20 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Amazon Nova Micro: 30.5 (#295)
- Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: 40.4 (#141)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1218 | 1375 |
| LiveBench Coding | 20.2% | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Amazon Nova Micro: 22.1 (#132)
- Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: —

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 22.3% | — |

## Reasoning

- Amazon Nova Micro: 17.4 (#294)
- Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: 26.8 (#127)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1191 | 1337 |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 25.1% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 34% | — |
| LiveBench | 29.6% | — |

## Math

- Amazon Nova Micro: 26.9 (#254)
- Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: 37.5 (#155)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1206 | 1359 |
| Omni-MATH | 21.4% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 34.5% | — |

## Knowledge

- Amazon Nova Micro: 29.6 (#237)
- Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: 37.5 (#154)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1184 | 1356 |
| MMLU-Pro | 51.1% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 5.5% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 38.3% | — |
| MMLU | 70.8% | — |

## Multilingual

- Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#239)
- Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: 44.0 (#180)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1186 | 1295 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1209 | 1359 |
| LMArena French | 1238 | 1366 |
| LMArena German | 1192 | 1282 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1154 | 1206 |
| LMArena Korean | 1150 | 1238 |
| LMArena Russian | 1185 | 1253 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1225 | 1345 |

## Instruction Following

- Amazon Nova Micro: 56.3 (#272)
- Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: 69.6 (#170)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1174 | 1318 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 48% | — |
| IFEval | 76% | — |

## Long Context

- Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#229)
- Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: 39.9 (#165)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1205 | 1314 |

## Writing & Preference

- Amazon Nova Micro: 39.5 (#247)
- Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: 48.5 (#201)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1208 | 1327 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1172 | 1254 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1178 | 1328 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 1280 |
| WildBench | 74.3% | — |
| LiveBench Language | 15.8% | — |

## FAQ

### Is Amazon Nova Micro better than Nemotron 3.5 Lightning?

Nemotron 3.5 Lightning is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.0 to 30.4 on the Noometry Index.

### Which is cheaper, Amazon Nova Micro or Nemotron 3.5 Lightning?

Amazon Nova Micro is cheaper. It lists at $0.035 per million input tokens and $0.14 per million output tokens; Nemotron 3.5 Lightning lists at $0.05 and $0.20.

### Is Amazon Nova Micro or Nemotron 3.5 Lightning better for coding?

Nemotron 3.5 Lightning scores higher on coding benchmarks: 40.4 versus 30.5 in the Noometry coding category.

### Which has the bigger context window?

Nemotron 3.5 Lightning does, with 262K tokens against 128K.

### How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Micro and Nemotron 3.5 Lightning share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Micro has 32 scored results on Noometry and Nemotron 3.5 Lightning has 18.