Model comparison
Amazon Nova Micro vs Codellama 70b Instruct
Codellama 70b Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.7 to 30.4 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 4 shared benchmarks.
MetaSummary
- They share 4 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Micro scores higher in 3 categories and Codellama 70b Instruct in 2 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in multilingual, where Amazon Nova Micro leads 36.5 to 24.8.
- Codellama 70b Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Amazon Nova Micro | Codellama 70b Instruct | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | Meta |
| Noometry Index | 30.4 | 33.7 |
| Released | 2024-12-03 | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| 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 Codellama 70b Instruct leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 30.5 (#295), Codellama 70b Instruct: 37.6 (#193)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Codellama 70b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 40.7% |
| LiveBench Coding | 20.2% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1218 | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 49.6% |
| HumanEval+ | — | 65.9% |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Amazon Nova Micro: 22.1 (#132), Codellama 70b Instruct: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Codellama 70b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 22.3% | — |
Reasoning Codellama 70b Instruct leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 17.4 (#294), Codellama 70b Instruct: 20.1 (#242)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Codellama 70b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1191 | 1052 |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 25.1% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 34% | — |
| LiveBench | 29.6% | — |
Math Not comparable
Amazon Nova Micro: 26.9 (#254), Codellama 70b Instruct: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Codellama 70b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Omni-MATH | 21.4% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 34.5% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1206 | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
Amazon Nova Micro: 29.6 (#237), Codellama 70b Instruct: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Codellama 70b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU-Pro | 51.1% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 5.5% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 38.3% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1184 | — |
| MMLU | 70.8% | — |
Multilingual Amazon Nova Micro leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#239), Codellama 70b Instruct: 24.8 (#288)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Codellama 70b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1186 | 992 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1209 | — |
| LMArena French | 1238 | — |
| LMArena German | 1192 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1154 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1150 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1185 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1225 | — |
Instruction Following Amazon Nova Micro leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 56.3 (#272), Codellama 70b Instruct: 51.9 (#293)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Codellama 70b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1174 | 1024 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 48% | — |
| IFEval | 76% | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#229), Codellama 70b Instruct: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Codellama 70b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1205 | — |
Writing & Preference Amazon Nova Micro leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 39.5 (#247), Codellama 70b Instruct: 33.4 (#277)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Codellama 70b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1208 | 1057 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1172 | — |
| WildBench | 74.3% | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1178 | — |
| LiveBench Language | 15.8% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Amazon Nova Micro better than Codellama 70b Instruct?
Codellama 70b Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.7 to 30.4 on the Noometry Index.
Is Amazon Nova Micro or Codellama 70b Instruct better for coding?
Codellama 70b Instruct scores higher on coding benchmarks: 37.6 versus 30.5 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Micro and Codellama 70b Instruct share?
4 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Micro has 32 scored results on Noometry and Codellama 70b Instruct has 7.