# Amazon Nova Micro vs Nemotron 3 Ultra

> Nemotron 3 Ultra is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.5 to 30.4 on the Noometry Index. Amazon Nova Micro costs 17× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Nemotron 3 Ultra's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/amazon-nova-micro-vs-nemotron-3-ultra
- Last updated: 2026-10-11
- Shared benchmarks: 16

## Summary

- They share 16 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Micro scores higher in 0 categories and Nemotron 3 Ultra in 9 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Nemotron 3 Ultra leads 66.3 to 39.5.
- Amazon Nova Micro is cheaper at $0.035 / $0.14 per million input/output tokens, against $0.60 / $2.40 for Nemotron 3 Ultra.
- Nemotron 3 Ultra accepts more context: 262K tokens versus 128K.
- Nemotron 3 Ultra has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Amazon Nova Micro | Nemotron 3 Ultra |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | NVIDIA |
| Noometry Index | 30.4 | 42.5 |
| Rank | 294 | 113 |
| Context | 128K | 262K |
| Input $/M | $0.035 | $0.60 |
| Output $/M | $0.14 | $2.40 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Amazon Nova Micro: 30.5 (#295)
- Nemotron 3 Ultra: 38.1 (#182)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Nemotron 3 Ultra |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1218 | 1468 |
| FrontierCode | — | 13.6% |
| SciCode | — | 40.3% |
| WeirdML | — | 43.5% |
| LiveBench Coding | 20.2% | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Amazon Nova Micro: 22.1 (#132)
- Nemotron 3 Ultra: 23.4 (#126)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Nemotron 3 Ultra |
|---|---|---|
| APEX-Agents | — | 22.7% |
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 22.3% | — |

## Reasoning

- Amazon Nova Micro: 17.4 (#294)
- Nemotron 3 Ultra: 31.0 (#82)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Nemotron 3 Ultra |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1191 | 1452 |
| CritPt | — | 3.1% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 12% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 25.1% | — |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | — | 20% |
| DTBench | — | 90.1% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 34% | — |
| LMCA | — | 36.9% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 146.17 |
| LiveBench | 29.6% | — |

## Math

- Amazon Nova Micro: 26.9 (#254)
- Nemotron 3 Ultra: 35.3 (#187)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Nemotron 3 Ultra |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1206 | 1457 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 86.7% |
| ProofBench | — | 2% |
| Omni-MATH | 21.4% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 34.5% | — |

## Knowledge

- Amazon Nova Micro: 29.6 (#237)
- Nemotron 3 Ultra: 52.5 (#61)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Nemotron 3 Ultra |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1184 | 1472 |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 85.4% |
| 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 Ultra: 53.5 (#64)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Nemotron 3 Ultra |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1186 | 1427 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1209 | 1497 |
| LMArena French | 1238 | 1472 |
| LMArena German | 1192 | 1471 |
| LMArena Korean | 1150 | 1386 |
| LMArena Russian | 1185 | 1417 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1225 | 1454 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1154 | — |

## Instruction Following

- Amazon Nova Micro: 56.3 (#272)
- Nemotron 3 Ultra: 74.7 (#88)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Nemotron 3 Ultra |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1174 | 1418 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 48% | — |
| IFEval | 76% | — |

## Long Context

- Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#229)
- Nemotron 3 Ultra: 43.9 (#81)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Nemotron 3 Ultra |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1205 | 1437 |

## Writing & Preference

- Amazon Nova Micro: 39.5 (#247)
- Nemotron 3 Ultra: 66.3 (#36)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Nemotron 3 Ultra |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1208 | 1445 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1172 | 1398 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1178 | 1411 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 1692 |
| WildBench | 74.3% | — |
| LiveBench Language | 15.8% | — |

## FAQ

### Is Amazon Nova Micro better than Nemotron 3 Ultra?

Nemotron 3 Ultra is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.5 to 30.4 on the Noometry Index. Amazon Nova Micro costs 17× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Nemotron 3 Ultra's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

### Which is cheaper, Amazon Nova Micro or Nemotron 3 Ultra?

Amazon Nova Micro is cheaper. It lists at $0.035 per million input tokens and $0.14 per million output tokens; Nemotron 3 Ultra lists at $0.60 and $2.40.

### Is Amazon Nova Micro or Nemotron 3 Ultra better for coding?

Nemotron 3 Ultra scores higher on coding benchmarks: 38.1 versus 30.5 in the Noometry coding category.

### Which has the bigger context window?

Nemotron 3 Ultra does, with 262K tokens against 128K.

### How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Micro and Nemotron 3 Ultra share?

16 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Micro has 32 scored results on Noometry and Nemotron 3 Ultra has 30.