Noometry

Model comparison

Amazon Nova Micro vs Claude Opus 4.6

Claude Opus 4.6 is the stronger model overall, scoring 58.2 to 30.4 on the Noometry Index. Amazon Nova Micro costs 163× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Claude Opus 4.6's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 18 shared benchmarks.

Amazon Nova Micro Amazon

30.4

Rank #294 Confirmed

Claude Opus 4.6 Anthropic

58.2

Rank #20 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Micro scores higher in 0 categories and Claude Opus 4.6 in 9 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Claude Opus 4.6 leads 57.8 to 17.4.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is Vectara Hallucination Rate: 5.5% for Amazon Nova Micro and 12.2% for Claude Opus 4.6.
  • Amazon Nova Micro is cheaper at $0.035 / $0.14 per million input/output tokens, against $5 / $25 for Claude Opus 4.6.
  • Claude Opus 4.6 accepts more context: 1M tokens versus 128K.

Side by side

Amazon Nova MicroClaude Opus 4.6
ProviderAmazonAnthropic
Noometry Index30.458.2
Released2024-12-032026-02-04
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window128K1M
Max output10K128K
Input $ / M tokens$0.035$5
Output $ / M tokens$0.14$25
Results tracked3268

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Category by category

Coding Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Amazon Nova Micro: 30.5 (#295), Claude Opus 4.6: 57.2 (#20)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova MicroClaude Opus 4.6
LMArena Coding12181536
SWE-bench Verified—78.7%
FrontierCode—26.6%
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—75.6%
LMArena WebDev—1547
SWE-bench Multilingual—72%
GSO—41.2%
WeirdML—78%
LiveBench Coding20.2%—
ALE-Bench—996.5
AlgoTune—1.47

Agentic & Tool Use Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Amazon Nova Micro: 22.1 (#132), Claude Opus 4.6: 51.1 (#4)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova MicroClaude Opus 4.6
Terminal-Bench—79.8%
APEX-Agents—46.3%
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard22.3%—
Remote Labor Index—4.2%
τ²-bench Banking—27.3%
Cybench—93%
DeepResearch Bench—55.3%
GBAEval—44.1%
LMArena Search—1253
METR Time Horizons—78.9%
Vending-Bench 2—8,018

Reasoning Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Amazon Nova Micro: 17.4 (#294), Claude Opus 4.6: 57.8 (#23)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova MicroClaude Opus 4.6
LMArena Hard Prompts11911527
ARC-AGI-2—69.2%
SimpleBench—67.6%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—83.6%
NYT Connections (extended)—92.1%
ARC-AGI-1—94%
Chess Puzzles—17%
EnigmaEval—7.6%
Thematic Generalization—80.6%
EBR-Bench—12.7%
LiveBench Reasoning25.1%—
Mystery Game Puzzles—25%
DTBench—91.2%
LiveBench Data Analysis34%—
LMCA—55.8%
Epoch Capabilities Index—155.24
ForecastBench—60
LiveBench29.6%—

Math Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Amazon Nova Micro: 26.9 (#254), Claude Opus 4.6: 63.0 (#31)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova MicroClaude Opus 4.6
LMArena Math12061519
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—66%
FrontierMath Tier 4—26.8%
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions—78.5%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—94.4%
ProofBench—50%
Omni-MATH21.4%—
LiveBench Math34.5%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—40.7%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)—22.9%

Knowledge Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Amazon Nova Micro: 29.6 (#237), Claude Opus 4.6: 61.9 (#26)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova MicroClaude Opus 4.6
Vectara Hallucination Rate5.5%12.2%
LMArena Expert11841546
GPQA Diamond—90.5%
Humanity's Last Exam—34.4%
SimpleQA Verified—47%
MMLU-Pro51.1%—
GPQA (HELM)38.3%—
MMLU70.8%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Amazon Nova Micro: —, Claude Opus 4.6: 37.3 (#74)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova MicroClaude Opus 4.6
LMArena Vision—1316
Furniture Assembly—28.3%
LMArena Document—1507

Multilingual Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#239), Claude Opus 4.6: 57.9 (#6)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova MicroClaude Opus 4.6
LMArena Non-English11861489
LMArena Chinese12091551
LMArena French12381513
LMArena German11921502
LMArena Japanese11541484
LMArena Korean11501464
LMArena Russian11851497
LMArena Spanish12251510

Instruction Following Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Amazon Nova Micro: 56.3 (#272), Claude Opus 4.6: 79.5 (#4)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova MicroClaude Opus 4.6
LMArena Instruction Following11741523
LiveBench Instruction Following48%—
IFEval76%—

Long Context Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#229), Claude Opus 4.6: 48.1 (#13)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova MicroClaude Opus 4.6
LMArena Longer Query12051520
CL-bench—20.7%
CL-bench Life—17%

Writing & Preference Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Amazon Nova Micro: 39.5 (#247), Claude Opus 4.6: 73.5 (#10)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova MicroClaude Opus 4.6
LMArena Text12081503
LMArena Creative Writing11721505
LMArena Multi-Turn11781513
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1809
WildBench74.3%—
EQ-Bench 4—1223
LiveBench Language15.8%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Amazon Nova Micro better than Claude Opus 4.6?

Claude Opus 4.6 is the stronger model overall, scoring 58.2 to 30.4 on the Noometry Index. Amazon Nova Micro costs 163× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Claude Opus 4.6's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Which is cheaper, Amazon Nova Micro or Claude Opus 4.6?

Amazon Nova Micro is cheaper. It lists at $0.035 per million input tokens and $0.14 per million output tokens; Claude Opus 4.6 lists at $5 and $25.

Is Amazon Nova Micro or Claude Opus 4.6 better for coding?

Claude Opus 4.6 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 57.2 versus 30.5 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Claude Opus 4.6 does, with 1M tokens against 128K.

How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Micro and Claude Opus 4.6 share?

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Micro has 32 scored results on Noometry and Claude Opus 4.6 has 68.

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