# Amazon Nova Micro vs Palm 2

> Amazon Nova Micro and Palm 2 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (30.4 vs 30.0), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

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

## Summary

- They share 10 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Micro scores higher in 5 categories and Palm 2 in 2 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in multilingual, where Amazon Nova Micro leads 36.5 to 20.9.

## Snapshot

| | Amazon Nova Micro | Palm 2 |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | Google |
| Noometry Index | 30.4 | 30.0 |
| Rank | 294 | 298 |
| Context | 128K | — |
| Input $/M | $0.035 | — |
| Output $/M | $0.14 | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |

## Coding

- Amazon Nova Micro: 30.5 (#295)
- Palm 2: 29.0 (#311)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Palm 2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1218 | 994 |
| LiveBench Coding | 20.2% | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Amazon Nova Micro: 22.1 (#132)
- Palm 2: —

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Palm 2 |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 22.3% | — |

## Reasoning

- Amazon Nova Micro: 17.4 (#294)
- Palm 2: 19.1 (#271)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Palm 2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1191 | 1005 |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 25.1% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 34% | — |
| LiveBench | 29.6% | — |

## Math

- Amazon Nova Micro: 26.9 (#254)
- Palm 2: 30.8 (#231)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Palm 2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1206 | 1049 |
| Omni-MATH | 21.4% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 34.5% | — |

## Knowledge

- Amazon Nova Micro: 29.6 (#237)
- Palm 2: —

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Palm 2 |
|---|---|---|
| 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)
- Palm 2: 20.9 (#295)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Palm 2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1186 | 916 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1209 | 887 |
| LMArena French | 1238 | — |
| LMArena German | 1192 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1154 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1150 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1185 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1225 | — |

## Instruction Following

- Amazon Nova Micro: 56.3 (#272)
- Palm 2: 51.0 (#296)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Palm 2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1174 | 1010 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 48% | — |
| IFEval | 76% | — |

## Long Context

- Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#229)
- Palm 2: 30.8 (#285)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Palm 2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1205 | 1010 |

## Writing & Preference

- Amazon Nova Micro: 39.5 (#247)
- Palm 2: 25.6 (#304)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Palm 2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1208 | 1027 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1172 | 991 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1178 | 994 |
| WildBench | 74.3% | — |
| LiveBench Language | 15.8% | — |

## FAQ

### Is Amazon Nova Micro better than Palm 2?

Amazon Nova Micro and Palm 2 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (30.4 vs 30.0), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

### Is Amazon Nova Micro or Palm 2 better for coding?

Amazon Nova Micro scores higher on coding benchmarks: 30.5 versus 29.0 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Micro and Palm 2 share?

10 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Micro has 32 scored results on Noometry and Palm 2 has 10.
