Model comparison
Amazon Nova Micro vs Claude 2.1
Amazon Nova Micro is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.4 to 25.2 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.
Summary
- They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Amazon Nova Micro scores higher in 3 categories and Claude 2.1 in 1 category; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Amazon Nova Micro leads 26.9 to 10.2.
Side by side
| Amazon Nova Micro | Claude 2.1 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | Anthropic |
| Noometry Index | 30.4 | 25.2 |
| Released | 2024-12-03 | 2023-11-21 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Context window | 128K | — |
| Max output | 10K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.035 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.14 | — |
| Results tracked | 32 | 7 |
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Category by category
Coding Amazon Nova Micro leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 30.5 (#295), Claude 2.1: 26.2 (#327)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Claude 2.1 |
|---|---|---|
| WeirdML | — | 7.1% |
| LiveBench Coding | 20.2% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1218 | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Amazon Nova Micro: 22.1 (#132), Claude 2.1: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Claude 2.1 |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 22.3% | — |
Reasoning Claude 2.1 leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 17.4 (#294), Claude 2.1: 21.4 (#221)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Claude 2.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Reasoning | 25.1% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1191 | — |
| DTBench | — | 51% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 34% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 119.27 |
| ForecastBench | — | 54.2 |
| LiveBench | 29.6% | — |
Math Amazon Nova Micro leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 26.9 (#254), Claude 2.1: 10.2 (#315)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Claude 2.1 |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 1.9% |
| Omni-MATH | 21.4% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 34.5% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1206 | — |
Knowledge Amazon Nova Micro leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 29.6 (#237), Claude 2.1: 15.4 (#292)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Claude 2.1 |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU | 70.8% | 73.5% |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 33% |
| MMLU-Pro | 51.1% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 5.5% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 38.3% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1184 | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#239), Claude 2.1: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Claude 2.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1186 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1209 | — |
| LMArena French | 1238 | — |
| LMArena German | 1192 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1154 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1150 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1185 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1225 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Amazon Nova Micro: 56.3 (#272), Claude 2.1: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Claude 2.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 48% | — |
| IFEval | 76% | — |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1174 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#229), Claude 2.1: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Claude 2.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1205 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Amazon Nova Micro: 39.5 (#247), Claude 2.1: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Claude 2.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1208 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1172 | — |
| WildBench | 74.3% | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1178 | — |
| LiveBench Language | 15.8% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Amazon Nova Micro better than Claude 2.1?
Amazon Nova Micro is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.4 to 25.2 on the Noometry Index.
Is Amazon Nova Micro or Claude 2.1 better for coding?
Amazon Nova Micro scores higher on coding benchmarks: 30.5 versus 26.2 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Micro and Claude 2.1 share?
1 benchmark has published results for both models. Amazon Nova Micro has 32 scored results on Noometry and Claude 2.1 has 7.