# Amazon Nova Micro vs Qwen2.5 7B Instruct

> Amazon Nova Micro is the stronger model overall, scoring 29.9 to 28.6 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/amazon-nova-micro-vs-qwen2-5-7b-instruct
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 6

## Summary

- They share 6 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Micro scores higher in 3 categories and Qwen2.5 7B Instruct in 4 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Amazon Nova Micro leads 24.9 to 11.8.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is Omni-MATH: 21.4% for Amazon Nova Micro and 29.4% for Qwen2.5 7B Instruct.
- Amazon Nova Micro is cheaper at $0.035 / $0.14 per million input/output tokens, against $0.17 / $0.70 for Qwen2.5 7B Instruct.
- Qwen2.5 7B Instruct accepts more context: 131K tokens versus 128K.
- Qwen2.5 7B Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Amazon Nova Micro | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 29.9 | 28.6 |
| Rank | 290 | 314 |
| Context | 128K | 131K |
| Input $/M | $0.035 | $0.17 |
| Output $/M | $0.14 | $0.70 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Amazon Nova Micro: 30.0 (#289)
- Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 35.9 (#204)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 37.6% |
| LiveBench Coding | 20.2% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1218 | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 46.1% |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Amazon Nova Micro: 21.9 (#125)
- Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 23.5 (#117)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 22.3% | — |
| BALROG | — | 7.8% |

## Reasoning

- Amazon Nova Micro: 16.7 (#289)
- Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 14.3 (#317)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Chess Puzzles | — | 0% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 25.1% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1191 | — |
| DTBench | — | 47.7% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 34% | — |
| LMCA | — | 6.4% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 118.44 |
| LiveBench | 29.6% | — |

## Math

- Amazon Nova Micro: 24.9 (#252)
- Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 11.8 (#300)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Omni-MATH | 21.4% | 29.4% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 2.5% |
| LiveBench Math | 34.5% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1206 | — |

## Knowledge

- Amazon Nova Micro: 29.2 (#231)
- Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 17.0 (#281)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU-Pro | 51.1% | 53.9% |
| GPQA (HELM) | 38.3% | 34.1% |
| MMLU | 70.8% | 72.9% |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 35.5% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 5.5% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1184 | — |

## Multilingual

- Amazon Nova Micro: 36.7 (#234)
- Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: —

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| 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)
- Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 63.4 (#226)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | 76% | 74.1% |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 48% | — |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1174 | — |

## Long Context

- Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#224)
- Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: —

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1206 | — |

## Writing & Preference

- Amazon Nova Micro: 39.7 (#242)
- Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 48.8 (#194)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| WildBench | 74.3% | 73.1% |
| LMArena Text | 1208 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1172 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1178 | — |
| LiveBench Language | 15.8% | — |

## FAQ

### Is Amazon Nova Micro better than Qwen2.5 7B Instruct?

Amazon Nova Micro is the stronger model overall, scoring 29.9 to 28.6 on the Noometry Index.

### Which is cheaper, Amazon Nova Micro or Qwen2.5 7B Instruct?

Amazon Nova Micro is cheaper. It lists at $0.035 per million input tokens and $0.14 per million output tokens; Qwen2.5 7B Instruct lists at $0.17 and $0.70.

### Is Amazon Nova Micro or Qwen2.5 7B Instruct better for coding?

Qwen2.5 7B Instruct scores higher on coding benchmarks: 35.9 versus 30.0 in the Noometry coding category.

### Which has the bigger context window?

Qwen2.5 7B Instruct does, with 131K tokens against 128K.

### How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Micro and Qwen2.5 7B Instruct share?

6 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Micro has 32 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5 7B Instruct has 15.