Model comparison
Amazon Nova Micro vs Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B
Amazon Nova Micro and Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (30.4 vs 29.9), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.
GoogleSummary
- They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Micro scores higher in 2 categories and Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B in 6 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Amazon Nova Micro leads 29.6 to 16.0.
Side by side
| Amazon Nova Micro | Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | |
| Noometry Index | 30.4 | 29.9 |
| Released | 2024-12-03 | 2024-10-03 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| 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 Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 30.5 (#295), Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 35.5 (#225)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1218 | 1218 |
| LiveBench Coding | 20.2% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Amazon Nova Micro: 22.1 (#132), Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 22.3% | — |
Reasoning Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 17.4 (#294), Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 20.0 (#244)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1191 | 1209 |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 25.1% | — |
| DTBench | — | 50% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 34% | — |
| LiveBench | 29.6% | — |
Math Amazon Nova Micro leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 26.9 (#254), Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 14.2 (#302)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1206 | 1207 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 4.6% |
| Omni-MATH | 21.4% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 34.5% | — |
Knowledge Amazon Nova Micro leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 29.6 (#237), Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 16.0 (#289)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1184 | 1185 |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 33% |
| MMLU-Pro | 51.1% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 5.5% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 38.3% | — |
| MMLU | 70.8% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Amazon Nova Micro: —, Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 28.2 (#115)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1044 |
Multilingual Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#239), Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 38.5 (#229)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1186 | 1215 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1209 | 1231 |
| LMArena French | 1238 | 1234 |
| LMArena German | 1192 | 1206 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1154 | 1150 |
| LMArena Korean | 1150 | 1140 |
| LMArena Russian | 1185 | 1236 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1225 | 1212 |
Instruction Following Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 56.3 (#272), Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 62.8 (#236)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1174 | 1199 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 48% | — |
| IFEval | 76% | — |
Long Context Too close to call
Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#229), Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 37.0 (#225)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1205 | 1219 |
Writing & Preference Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 39.5 (#247), Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 42.8 (#232)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1208 | 1226 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1172 | 1218 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1178 | 1185 |
| WildBench | 74.3% | — |
| LiveBench Language | 15.8% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Amazon Nova Micro better than Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B?
Amazon Nova Micro and Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (30.4 vs 29.9), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Is Amazon Nova Micro or Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B better for coding?
Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 35.5 versus 30.5 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Micro and Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B share?
17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Micro has 32 scored results on Noometry and Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B has 21.