# Amazon Nova Micro vs Phi-4 Mini

> Amazon Nova Micro and Phi-4 Mini score almost the same on the Noometry Index (29.9 vs 30.4), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/amazon-nova-micro-vs-phi-4-mini
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 1

## Summary

- They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Amazon Nova Micro scores higher in 2 categories and Phi-4 Mini in 1 category; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Phi-4 Mini leads 21.7 to 16.7.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is Vectara Hallucination Rate: 5.5% for Amazon Nova Micro and 23.5% for Phi-4 Mini.
- Amazon Nova Micro is cheaper at $0.035 / $0.14 per million input/output tokens, against $0.075 / $0.30 for Phi-4 Mini.
- Phi-4 Mini has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Amazon Nova Micro | Phi-4 Mini |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | Microsoft |
| Noometry Index | 29.9 | 30.4 |
| Rank | 290 | 280 |
| Context | 128K | 128K |
| Input $/M | $0.035 | $0.075 |
| Output $/M | $0.14 | $0.30 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Amazon Nova Micro: 30.0 (#289)
- Phi-4 Mini: 27.6 (#312)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Phi-4 Mini |
|---|---|---|
| SciCode | — | 10.8% |
| LiveBench Coding | 20.2% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1218 | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Amazon Nova Micro: 21.9 (#125)
- Phi-4 Mini: —

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Phi-4 Mini |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 22.3% | — |

## Reasoning

- Amazon Nova Micro: 16.7 (#289)
- Phi-4 Mini: 21.7 (#190)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Phi-4 Mini |
|---|---|---|
| CritPt | — | 0% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 25.1% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1191 | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 34% | — |
| LiveBench | 29.6% | — |

## Math

- Amazon Nova Micro: 24.9 (#252)
- Phi-4 Mini: —

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Phi-4 Mini |
|---|---|---|
| Omni-MATH | 21.4% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 34.5% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1206 | — |

## Knowledge

- Amazon Nova Micro: 29.2 (#231)
- Phi-4 Mini: 24.8 (#261)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Phi-4 Mini |
|---|---|---|
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 5.5% | 23.5% |
| MMLU-Pro | 51.1% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 38.3% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1184 | — |
| MMLU | 70.8% | — |

## Multilingual

- Amazon Nova Micro: 36.7 (#234)
- Phi-4 Mini: —

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Phi-4 Mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1186 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1209 | — |
| LMArena French | 1237 | — |
| LMArena German | 1192 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1154 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1150 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1185 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1225 | — |

## Instruction Following

- Amazon Nova Micro: 56.6 (#267)
- Phi-4 Mini: —

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Phi-4 Mini |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 48% | — |
| IFEval | 76% | — |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1174 | — |

## Long Context

- Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#224)
- Phi-4 Mini: —

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Phi-4 Mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1206 | — |

## Writing & Preference

- Amazon Nova Micro: 39.7 (#242)
- Phi-4 Mini: —

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Phi-4 Mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1208 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1172 | — |
| WildBench | 74.3% | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1178 | — |
| LiveBench Language | 15.8% | — |

## FAQ

### Is Amazon Nova Micro better than Phi-4 Mini?

Amazon Nova Micro and Phi-4 Mini score almost the same on the Noometry Index (29.9 vs 30.4), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

### Which is cheaper, Amazon Nova Micro or Phi-4 Mini?

Amazon Nova Micro is cheaper. It lists at $0.035 per million input tokens and $0.14 per million output tokens; Phi-4 Mini lists at $0.075 and $0.30.

### Is Amazon Nova Micro or Phi-4 Mini better for coding?

Amazon Nova Micro scores higher on coding benchmarks: 30.0 versus 27.6 in the Noometry coding category.

### Which has the bigger context window?

Both accept 128K tokens.

### How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Micro and Phi-4 Mini share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Amazon Nova Micro has 32 scored results on Noometry and Phi-4 Mini has 3.