# Amazon Nova Micro vs Qwen1.5-32B

> Amazon Nova Micro and Qwen1.5-32B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (30.4 vs 30.5), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/amazon-nova-micro-vs-qwen1-5-32b
- Last updated: 2026-10-11
- Shared benchmarks: 18

## Summary

- They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Micro scores higher in 4 categories and Qwen1.5-32B in 4 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Amazon Nova Micro leads 29.6 to 13.5.
- Qwen1.5-32B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Amazon Nova Micro | Qwen1.5-32B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 30.4 | 30.5 |
| Rank | 294 | 293 |
| Context | 128K | — |
| Input $/M | $0.035 | — |
| Output $/M | $0.14 | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Amazon Nova Micro: 30.5 (#295)
- Qwen1.5-32B: 31.7 (#282)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Qwen1.5-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1218 | 1155 |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 32.3% |
| LiveBench Coding | 20.2% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 42% |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Amazon Nova Micro: 22.1 (#132)
- Qwen1.5-32B: —

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Qwen1.5-32B |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 22.3% | — |

## Reasoning

- Amazon Nova Micro: 17.4 (#294)
- Qwen1.5-32B: 21.8 (#212)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Qwen1.5-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1191 | 1130 |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 25.1% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 34% | — |
| LiveBench | 29.6% | — |

## Math

- Amazon Nova Micro: 26.9 (#254)
- Qwen1.5-32B: 33.0 (#207)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Qwen1.5-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1206 | 1155 |
| Omni-MATH | 21.4% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 34.5% | — |

## Knowledge

- Amazon Nova Micro: 29.6 (#237)
- Qwen1.5-32B: 13.5 (#296)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Qwen1.5-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1184 | 1126 |
| MMLU | 70.8% | 74.4% |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 30.7% |
| MMLU-Pro | 51.1% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 5.5% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 38.3% | — |

## Multilingual

- Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#239)
- Qwen1.5-32B: 31.4 (#259)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Qwen1.5-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1186 | 1106 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1209 | 1177 |
| LMArena French | 1238 | 1101 |
| LMArena German | 1192 | 1058 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1154 | 1027 |
| LMArena Korean | 1150 | 1008 |
| LMArena Russian | 1185 | 1073 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1225 | 1089 |

## Instruction Following

- Amazon Nova Micro: 56.3 (#272)
- Qwen1.5-32B: 57.7 (#265)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Qwen1.5-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1174 | 1116 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 48% | — |
| IFEval | 76% | — |

## Long Context

- Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#229)
- Qwen1.5-32B: 34.7 (#246)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Qwen1.5-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1205 | 1146 |

## Writing & Preference

- Amazon Nova Micro: 39.5 (#247)
- Qwen1.5-32B: 34.2 (#271)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Qwen1.5-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1208 | 1137 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1172 | 1083 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1178 | 1140 |
| WildBench | 74.3% | — |
| LiveBench Language | 15.8% | — |

## FAQ

### Is Amazon Nova Micro better than Qwen1.5-32B?

Amazon Nova Micro and Qwen1.5-32B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (30.4 vs 30.5), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

### Is Amazon Nova Micro or Qwen1.5-32B better for coding?

Qwen1.5-32B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 31.7 versus 30.5 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Micro and Qwen1.5-32B share?

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Micro has 32 scored results on Noometry and Qwen1.5-32B has 21.