# Amazon Nova Micro vs Olmo 7b Instruct

> Amazon Nova Micro and Olmo 7b Instruct score almost the same on the Noometry Index (30.4 vs 30.3), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/amazon-nova-micro-vs-olmo-7b-instruct
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 10

## Summary

- They share 10 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Micro scores higher in 4 categories and Olmo 7b Instruct in 2 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Amazon Nova Micro leads 39.5 to 25.8.
- Olmo 7b Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Amazon Nova Micro | Olmo 7b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) |
| Noometry Index | 30.4 | 30.3 |
| Rank | 294 | 295 |
| Context | 128K | — |
| Input $/M | $0.035 | — |
| Output $/M | $0.14 | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Amazon Nova Micro: 30.5 (#295)
- Olmo 7b Instruct: 29.6 (#303)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Olmo 7b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1218 | 1016 |
| LiveBench Coding | 20.2% | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Amazon Nova Micro: 22.1 (#132)
- Olmo 7b Instruct: —

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Olmo 7b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 22.3% | — |

## Reasoning

- Amazon Nova Micro: 17.4 (#294)
- Olmo 7b Instruct: 18.8 (#274)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Olmo 7b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1191 | 993 |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 25.1% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 34% | — |
| LiveBench | 29.6% | — |

## Math

- Amazon Nova Micro: 26.9 (#254)
- Olmo 7b Instruct: 30.2 (#237)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Olmo 7b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1206 | 1018 |
| Omni-MATH | 21.4% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 34.5% | — |

## Knowledge

- Amazon Nova Micro: 29.6 (#237)
- Olmo 7b Instruct: —

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Olmo 7b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU-Pro | 51.1% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 5.5% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 38.3% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1184 | — |
| MMLU | 70.8% | — |

## Multilingual

- Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#239)
- Olmo 7b Instruct: 24.0 (#291)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Olmo 7b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1186 | 977 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1209 | 1014 |
| LMArena Russian | 1185 | 947 |
| LMArena French | 1238 | — |
| LMArena German | 1192 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1154 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1150 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1225 | — |

## Instruction Following

- Amazon Nova Micro: 56.3 (#272)
- Olmo 7b Instruct: 49.0 (#301)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Olmo 7b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1174 | 978 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 48% | — |
| IFEval | 76% | — |

## Long Context

- Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#229)
- Olmo 7b Instruct: —

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Olmo 7b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1205 | — |

## Writing & Preference

- Amazon Nova Micro: 39.5 (#247)
- Olmo 7b Instruct: 25.8 (#303)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Olmo 7b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1208 | 1032 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1172 | 990 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1178 | 1007 |
| WildBench | 74.3% | — |
| LiveBench Language | 15.8% | — |

## FAQ

### Is Amazon Nova Micro better than Olmo 7b Instruct?

Amazon Nova Micro and Olmo 7b Instruct score almost the same on the Noometry Index (30.4 vs 30.3), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

### Is Amazon Nova Micro or Olmo 7b Instruct better for coding?

They score almost the same on coding (30.5 vs 29.6); test both on your own repository before choosing.

### How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Micro and Olmo 7b Instruct share?

10 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Micro has 32 scored results on Noometry and Olmo 7b Instruct has 10.