Model comparison
Amazon Nova Micro vs DBRX
Amazon Nova Micro and DBRX score almost the same on the Noometry Index (30.4 vs 29.4), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.
DatabricksSummary
- They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Micro scores higher in 5 categories and DBRX in 3 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Amazon Nova Micro leads 29.6 to 14.9.
- DBRX has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Amazon Nova Micro | DBRX | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | Databricks |
| Noometry Index | 30.4 | 29.4 |
| Released | 2024-12-03 | 2024-03-27 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | 128K | — |
| Max output | 10K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.035 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.14 | — |
| Results tracked | 32 | 21 |
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Category by category
Coding DBRX leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 30.5 (#295), DBRX: 32.9 (#266)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | DBRX |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1218 | 1132 |
| LiveBench Coding | 20.2% | — |
| HumanEval+ | — | 70.1% |
| MBPP+ | — | 55.8% |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Amazon Nova Micro: 22.1 (#132), DBRX: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | DBRX |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 22.3% | — |
Reasoning DBRX leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 17.4 (#294), DBRX: 21.4 (#222)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | DBRX |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1191 | 1113 |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 25.1% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 34% | — |
| LiveBench | 29.6% | — |
Math Amazon Nova Micro leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 26.9 (#254), DBRX: 24.3 (#269)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | DBRX |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1206 | 1145 |
| Omni-MATH | 21.4% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 34.5% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 11.7% |
Knowledge Amazon Nova Micro leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 29.6 (#237), DBRX: 14.9 (#294)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | DBRX |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1184 | 1076 |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 32.9% |
| MMLU-Pro | 51.1% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 5.5% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 38.3% | — |
| MMLU | 70.8% | — |
Multilingual Amazon Nova Micro leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#239), DBRX: 29.3 (#268)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | DBRX |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1186 | 1071 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1209 | 1068 |
| LMArena French | 1238 | 1096 |
| LMArena German | 1192 | 1057 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1154 | 990 |
| LMArena Korean | 1150 | 993 |
| LMArena Russian | 1185 | 1078 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1225 | 1064 |
Instruction Following DBRX leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 56.3 (#272), DBRX: 57.5 (#270)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | DBRX |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1174 | 1112 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 48% | — |
| IFEval | 76% | — |
Long Context Amazon Nova Micro leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#229), DBRX: 33.7 (#258)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | DBRX |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1205 | 1112 |
Writing & Preference Amazon Nova Micro leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 39.5 (#247), DBRX: 33.6 (#275)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | DBRX |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1208 | 1119 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1172 | 1104 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1178 | 1111 |
| WildBench | 74.3% | — |
| LiveBench Language | 15.8% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Amazon Nova Micro better than DBRX?
Amazon Nova Micro and DBRX score almost the same on the Noometry Index (30.4 vs 29.4), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Is Amazon Nova Micro or DBRX better for coding?
DBRX scores higher on coding benchmarks: 32.9 versus 30.5 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Micro and DBRX share?
17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Micro has 32 scored results on Noometry and DBRX has 21.