# Amazon Nova Micro vs StarCoder 2 15B

> Amazon Nova Micro has enough public results to be ranked (#290); StarCoder 2 15B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/amazon-nova-micro-vs-starcoder-2-15b
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 1

## Summary

- They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Amazon Nova Micro scores higher in 0 categories and StarCoder 2 15B in 1 category; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in coding, where StarCoder 2 15B leads 36.0 to 30.0.
- StarCoder 2 15B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Amazon Nova Micro | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | NVIDIA |
| Noometry Index | 29.9 | 37.5 |
| Rank | 290 | — |
| Context | 128K | — |
| Input $/M | $0.035 | — |
| Output $/M | $0.14 | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Amazon Nova Micro: 30.0 (#289)
- StarCoder 2 15B: 36.0

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Coding | 20.2% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1218 | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 38.4% |
| HumanEval+ | — | 37.8% |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Amazon Nova Micro: 21.9 (#125)
- StarCoder 2 15B: —

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 22.3% | — |

## Reasoning

- Amazon Nova Micro: 16.7 (#289)
- StarCoder 2 15B: —

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Reasoning | 25.1% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1191 | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 34% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 104.61 |
| LiveBench | 29.6% | — |
| WinoGrande | — | 64.3% |

## Math

- Amazon Nova Micro: 24.9 (#252)
- StarCoder 2 15B: —

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| Omni-MATH | 21.4% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 34.5% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1206 | — |
| GSM8K | — | 57.7% |

## Knowledge

- Amazon Nova Micro: 29.2 (#231)
- StarCoder 2 15B: —

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU | 70.8% | 64.1% |
| MMLU-Pro | 51.1% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 5.5% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 38.3% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1184 | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 47.2% |

## Multilingual

- Amazon Nova Micro: 36.7 (#234)
- StarCoder 2 15B: —

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| 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)
- StarCoder 2 15B: —

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 48% | — |
| IFEval | 76% | — |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1174 | — |

## Long Context

- Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#224)
- StarCoder 2 15B: —

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1206 | — |

## Writing & Preference

- Amazon Nova Micro: 39.7 (#242)
- StarCoder 2 15B: —

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| 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 StarCoder 2 15B?

Amazon Nova Micro has enough public results to be ranked (#290); StarCoder 2 15B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### Is Amazon Nova Micro or StarCoder 2 15B better for coding?

StarCoder 2 15B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 36.0 versus 30.0 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Micro and StarCoder 2 15B share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Amazon Nova Micro has 32 scored results on Noometry and StarCoder 2 15B has 7.