# Amazon Nova Micro vs Qwen3-4B

> Qwen3-4B is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.5 to 29.9 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/amazon-nova-micro-vs-qwen3-4b
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 2

## Summary

- They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Micro scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen3-4B in 4 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in agentic & tool use, where Qwen3-4B leads 27.3 to 21.9.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard: 22.3% for Amazon Nova Micro and 35.7% for Qwen3-4B.
- Qwen3-4B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Amazon Nova Micro | Qwen3-4B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 29.9 | 31.5 |
| Rank | 290 | 261 |
| Context | 128K | — |
| Input $/M | $0.035 | — |
| Output $/M | $0.14 | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Amazon Nova Micro: 30.0 (#289)
- Qwen3-4B: —

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Qwen3-4B |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Coding | 20.2% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1218 | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Amazon Nova Micro: 21.9 (#125)
- Qwen3-4B: 27.3 (#94)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Qwen3-4B |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 22.3% | 35.7% |

## Reasoning

- Amazon Nova Micro: 16.7 (#289)
- Qwen3-4B: 18.5 (#264)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Qwen3-4B |
|---|---|---|
| Chess Puzzles | — | 4% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 25.1% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1191 | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 34% | — |
| LiveBench | 29.6% | — |

## Math

- Amazon Nova Micro: 24.9 (#252)
- Qwen3-4B: 28.5 (#228)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Qwen3-4B |
|---|---|---|
| MathArena Final-Answer Competitions | — | 38.5% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 52.2% |
| Omni-MATH | 21.4% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 34.5% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1206 | — |

## Knowledge

- Amazon Nova Micro: 29.2 (#231)
- Qwen3-4B: 33.0 (#198)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Qwen3-4B |
|---|---|---|
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 5.5% | 5.7% |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 52.3% |
| MMLU-Pro | 51.1% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 38.3% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1184 | — |
| MMLU | 70.8% | — |

## Multilingual

- Amazon Nova Micro: 36.7 (#234)
- Qwen3-4B: —

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Qwen3-4B |
|---|---|---|
| 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)
- Qwen3-4B: —

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Qwen3-4B |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 48% | — |
| IFEval | 76% | — |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1174 | — |

## Long Context

- Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#224)
- Qwen3-4B: —

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Qwen3-4B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1206 | — |

## Writing & Preference

- Amazon Nova Micro: 39.7 (#242)
- Qwen3-4B: —

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Qwen3-4B |
|---|---|---|
| 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 Qwen3-4B?

Qwen3-4B is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.5 to 29.9 on the Noometry Index.

### How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Micro and Qwen3-4B share?

2 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Micro has 32 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3-4B has 6.