Noometry

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Amazon Nova Micro vs Claude Opus 4.8

Claude Opus 4.8 is the stronger model overall, scoring 60.7 to 30.4 on the Noometry Index. Amazon Nova Micro costs 163× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Claude Opus 4.8's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.

Amazon Nova Micro Amazon

30.4

Rank #294 Confirmed

Claude Opus 4.8 Anthropic

60.7

Rank #13 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Micro scores higher in 0 categories and Claude Opus 4.8 in 9 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Claude Opus 4.8 leads 78.4 to 26.9.
  • Amazon Nova Micro is cheaper at $0.035 / $0.14 per million input/output tokens, against $5 / $25 for Claude Opus 4.8.
  • Claude Opus 4.8 accepts more context: 1M tokens versus 128K.

Side by side

Amazon Nova MicroClaude Opus 4.8
ProviderAmazonAnthropic
Noometry Index30.460.7
Released2024-12-032026-05-28
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window128K1M
Max output10K128K
Input $ / M tokens$0.035$5
Output $ / M tokens$0.14$25
Results tracked3265

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Category by category

Coding Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Amazon Nova Micro: 30.5 (#295), Claude Opus 4.8: 59.9 (#12)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova MicroClaude Opus 4.8
LMArena Coding12181490
DeepSWE—59%
FrontierCode—46.5%
LMArena WebDev—1556
SciCode—53.5%
GSO—47.1%
WeirdML—82.9%
LiveBench Coding20.2%—
ALE-Bench—1,564

Agentic & Tool Use Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Amazon Nova Micro: 22.1 (#132), Claude Opus 4.8: 47.6 (#11)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova MicroClaude Opus 4.8
APEX-Agents—48.9%
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard22.3%—
OSWorld 2.0—20.6%
Remote Labor Index—8.3%
τ²-bench Banking—39.7%
DeepResearch Bench—50.2%
PostTrainBench—33.8%
GBAEval—70.9%
GDP.pdf—24%
LMArena Search—1204
Vending-Bench 2—5,787

Reasoning Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Amazon Nova Micro: 17.4 (#294), Claude Opus 4.8: 64.7 (#16)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova MicroClaude Opus 4.8
LMArena Hard Prompts11911482
ARC-AGI-2—72.1%
SimpleBench—64.8%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—88.8%
NYT Connections (extended)—91.1%
ARC-AGI-1—92.5%
CritPt—20.9%
Chess Puzzles—34%
EnigmaEval—23.5%
EBR-Bench—28.6%
LiveBench Reasoning25.1%—
Mystery Game Puzzles—36%
DTBench—94.9%
LiveBench Data Analysis34%—
LMCA—57.5%
Surface Evolver Bench—87.5%
Bench to the Future 3—0.14
Epoch Capabilities Index—158.21
ForecastBench—59.9
LiveBench29.6%—

Math Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Amazon Nova Micro: 26.9 (#254), Claude Opus 4.8: 78.4 (#13)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova MicroClaude Opus 4.8
LMArena Math12061487
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—80%
FrontierMath Tier 4—56.1%
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions—91.8%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—98.3%
ProofBench—69%
Omni-MATH21.4%—
LiveBench Math34.5%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—47.2%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)—31.3%

Knowledge Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Amazon Nova Micro: 29.6 (#237), Claude Opus 4.8: 61.3 (#29)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova MicroClaude Opus 4.8
LMArena Expert11841502
GPQA Diamond—91%
SimpleQA Verified—53%
MMLU-Pro51.1%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate5.5%—
GPQA (HELM)38.3%—
MMLU70.8%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Amazon Nova Micro: —, Claude Opus 4.8: 42.9 (#26)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova MicroClaude Opus 4.8
LMArena Vision—1294
Blueprint-Bench 2—14.5%
Furniture Assembly—42.5%
LMArena Document—1475

Multilingual Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#239), Claude Opus 4.8: 55.2 (#33)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova MicroClaude Opus 4.8
LMArena Non-English11861450
LMArena Chinese12091507
LMArena French12381481
LMArena German11921472
LMArena Japanese11541440
LMArena Korean11501432
LMArena Russian11851474
LMArena Spanish12251466

Instruction Following Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Amazon Nova Micro: 56.3 (#272), Claude Opus 4.8: 77.4 (#24)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova MicroClaude Opus 4.8
LMArena Instruction Following11741476
LiveBench Instruction Following48%—
IFEval76%—

Long Context Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#229), Claude Opus 4.8: 45.4 (#35)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova MicroClaude Opus 4.8
LMArena Longer Query12051483

Writing & Preference Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Amazon Nova Micro: 39.5 (#247), Claude Opus 4.8: 72.0 (#16)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova MicroClaude Opus 4.8
LMArena Text12081461
LMArena Creative Writing11721454
LMArena Multi-Turn11781476
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1840
WildBench74.3%—
EQ-Bench 4—1281
LiveBench Language15.8%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Amazon Nova Micro better than Claude Opus 4.8?

Claude Opus 4.8 is the stronger model overall, scoring 60.7 to 30.4 on the Noometry Index. Amazon Nova Micro costs 163× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Claude Opus 4.8's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Which is cheaper, Amazon Nova Micro or Claude Opus 4.8?

Amazon Nova Micro is cheaper. It lists at $0.035 per million input tokens and $0.14 per million output tokens; Claude Opus 4.8 lists at $5 and $25.

Is Amazon Nova Micro or Claude Opus 4.8 better for coding?

Claude Opus 4.8 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 59.9 versus 30.5 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Claude Opus 4.8 does, with 1M tokens against 128K.

How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Micro and Claude Opus 4.8 share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Micro has 32 scored results on Noometry and Claude Opus 4.8 has 65.

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