# Amazon Nova Micro vs o1-mini

> o1-mini is the stronger model overall, scoring 34.0 to 30.4 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/amazon-nova-micro-vs-o1-mini
- Last updated: 2026-10-11
- Shared benchmarks: 24

## Summary

- They share 24 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Micro scores higher in 1 category and o1-mini in 8 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in instruction following, where o1-mini leads 66.7 to 56.3.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is LiveBench Reasoning: 25.1% for Amazon Nova Micro and 72.3% for o1-mini.

## Snapshot

| | Amazon Nova Micro | o1-mini |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | OpenAI |
| Noometry Index | 30.4 | 34.0 |
| Rank | 294 | 235 |
| Context | 128K | — |
| Input $/M | $0.035 | — |
| Output $/M | $0.14 | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |

## Coding

- Amazon Nova Micro: 30.5 (#295)
- o1-mini: 35.5 (#224)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | o1-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Coding | 20.2% | 48% |
| LMArena Coding | 1218 | 1362 |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 32.9% |
| WeirdML | — | 36.3% |
| HumanEval+ | — | 89% |
| MBPP+ | — | 78.8% |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Amazon Nova Micro: 22.1 (#132)
- o1-mini: 24.6 (#118)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | o1-mini |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 22.3% | — |
| Cybench | — | 10% |

## Reasoning

- Amazon Nova Micro: 17.4 (#294)
- o1-mini: 8.8 (#346)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | o1-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Reasoning | 25.1% | 72.3% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1191 | 1333 |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 34% | 57.9% |
| LiveBench | 29.6% | 57.8% |
| ARC-AGI-2 | — | 0.8% |
| SimpleBench | — | 18.1% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | — | 14% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 135.82 |

## Math

- Amazon Nova Micro: 26.9 (#254)
- o1-mini: 35.4 (#186)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | o1-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Math | 34.5% | 62% |
| LMArena Math | 1206 | 1358 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 46.9% |
| Omni-MATH | 21.4% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 89.2% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 1.7% |

## Knowledge

- Amazon Nova Micro: 29.6 (#237)
- o1-mini: 34.9 (#192)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | o1-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1184 | 1316 |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 62.4% |
| MMLU-Pro | 51.1% | — |
| Confabulations | — | 18.6% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 5.5% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 38.3% | — |
| MMLU | 70.8% | — |

## Multilingual

- Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#239)
- o1-mini: 43.6 (#182)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | o1-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1186 | 1289 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1209 | 1314 |
| LMArena French | 1238 | 1293 |
| LMArena German | 1192 | 1278 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1154 | 1245 |
| LMArena Korean | 1150 | 1223 |
| LMArena Russian | 1185 | 1283 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1225 | 1303 |

## Instruction Following

- Amazon Nova Micro: 56.3 (#272)
- o1-mini: 66.7 (#206)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | o1-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 48% | 65.4% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1174 | 1304 |
| IFEval | 76% | — |

## Long Context

- Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#229)
- o1-mini: 40.1 (#161)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | o1-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1205 | 1320 |

## Writing & Preference

- Amazon Nova Micro: 39.5 (#247)
- o1-mini: 48.4 (#202)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | o1-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1208 | 1317 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1172 | 1244 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1178 | 1314 |
| LiveBench Language | 15.8% | 40.9% |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 64.9% |
| WildBench | 74.3% | — |

## FAQ

### Is Amazon Nova Micro better than o1-mini?

o1-mini is the stronger model overall, scoring 34.0 to 30.4 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Amazon Nova Micro or o1-mini better for coding?

o1-mini scores higher on coding benchmarks: 35.5 versus 30.5 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Micro and o1-mini share?

24 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Micro has 32 scored results on Noometry and o1-mini has 39.