# Amazon Nova Micro vs Qwen Max

> Qwen Max is the stronger model overall, scoring 34.4 to 29.9 on the Noometry Index. Amazon Nova Micro costs 46× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Qwen Max's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/amazon-nova-micro-vs-qwen-max
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 17

## Summary

- They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Micro scores higher in 1 category and Qwen Max in 7 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in instruction following, where Qwen Max leads 66.7 to 56.6.
- Amazon Nova Micro is cheaper at $0.035 / $0.14 per million input/output tokens, against $1.60 / $6.40 for Qwen Max.
- Amazon Nova Micro accepts more context: 128K tokens versus 33K.

## Snapshot

| | Amazon Nova Micro | Qwen Max |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 29.9 | 34.4 |
| Rank | 290 | 226 |
| Context | 128K | 33K |
| Input $/M | $0.035 | $1.60 |
| Output $/M | $0.14 | $6.40 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |

## Coding

- Amazon Nova Micro: 30.0 (#289)
- Qwen Max: 30.3 (#288)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Qwen Max |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1218 | 1288 |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 21.8% |
| LiveBench Coding | 20.2% | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Amazon Nova Micro: 21.9 (#125)
- Qwen Max: —

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Qwen Max |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 22.3% | — |

## Reasoning

- Amazon Nova Micro: 16.7 (#289)
- Qwen Max: 24.1 (#154)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Qwen Max |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1191 | 1270 |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 25.1% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 34% | — |
| LiveBench | 29.6% | — |

## Math

- Amazon Nova Micro: 24.9 (#252)
- Qwen Max: 21.0 (#272)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Qwen Max |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1206 | 1275 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 16.1% |
| Omni-MATH | 21.4% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 34.5% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 67.2% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 1% |

## Knowledge

- Amazon Nova Micro: 29.2 (#231)
- Qwen Max: 30.3 (#222)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Qwen Max |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1184 | 1248 |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 56.1% |
| MMLU-Pro | 51.1% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 5.5% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 38.3% | — |
| MMLU | 70.8% | — |

## Multilingual

- Amazon Nova Micro: 36.7 (#234)
- Qwen Max: 42.0 (#197)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Qwen Max |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1186 | 1263 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1209 | 1254 |
| LMArena French | 1237 | 1329 |
| LMArena German | 1192 | 1254 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1154 | 1205 |
| LMArena Korean | 1150 | 1141 |
| LMArena Russian | 1185 | 1274 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1225 | 1290 |

## Instruction Following

- Amazon Nova Micro: 56.6 (#267)
- Qwen Max: 66.7 (#203)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Qwen Max |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1174 | 1262 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 48% | — |
| IFEval | 76% | — |

## Long Context

- Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#224)
- Qwen Max: 39.4 (#175)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Qwen Max |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1206 | 1289 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 66.7% |

## Writing & Preference

- Amazon Nova Micro: 39.7 (#242)
- Qwen Max: 48.0 (#200)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Qwen Max |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1208 | 1282 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1172 | 1248 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1178 | 1277 |
| WildBench | 74.3% | — |
| LiveBench Language | 15.8% | — |

## FAQ

### Is Amazon Nova Micro better than Qwen Max?

Qwen Max is the stronger model overall, scoring 34.4 to 29.9 on the Noometry Index. Amazon Nova Micro costs 46× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Qwen Max's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

### Which is cheaper, Amazon Nova Micro or Qwen Max?

Amazon Nova Micro is cheaper. It lists at $0.035 per million input tokens and $0.14 per million output tokens; Qwen Max lists at $1.60 and $6.40.

### Is Amazon Nova Micro or Qwen Max better for coding?

They score almost the same on coding (30.0 vs 30.3); test both on your own repository before choosing.

### Which has the bigger context window?

Amazon Nova Micro does, with 128K tokens against 33K.

### How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Micro and Qwen Max share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Micro has 32 scored results on Noometry and Qwen Max has 23.