Model comparison
Amazon Nova Micro vs Granite 3.0 2b Instruct
Amazon Nova Micro and Granite 3.0 2b Instruct score almost the same on the Noometry Index (30.4 vs 30.8), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 12 shared benchmarks.
Summary
- They share 12 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Micro scores higher in 6 categories and Granite 3.0 2b Instruct in 2 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Amazon Nova Micro leads 39.5 to 29.6.
- Granite 3.0 2b Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Amazon Nova Micro | Granite 3.0 2b Instruct | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | IBM |
| Noometry Index | 30.4 | 30.8 |
| 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 | 13 |
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Category by category
Coding Amazon Nova Micro leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 30.5 (#295), Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 28.3 (#316)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Granite 3.0 2b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1218 | 1090 |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 20.5% |
| LiveBench Coding | 20.2% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Amazon Nova Micro: 22.1 (#132), Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Granite 3.0 2b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 22.3% | — |
Reasoning Granite 3.0 2b Instruct leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 17.4 (#294), Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 20.5 (#235)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Granite 3.0 2b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1191 | 1073 |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 25.1% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 34% | — |
| LiveBench | 29.6% | — |
Math Granite 3.0 2b Instruct leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 26.9 (#254), Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 32.2 (#217)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Granite 3.0 2b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1206 | 1117 |
| Omni-MATH | 21.4% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 34.5% | — |
Knowledge Too close to call
Amazon Nova Micro: 29.6 (#237), Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 29.0 (#241)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Granite 3.0 2b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1184 | 1064 |
| 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), Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 27.0 (#278)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Granite 3.0 2b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1186 | 1033 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1209 | 1070 |
| LMArena Russian | 1185 | 1045 |
| LMArena French | 1238 | — |
| LMArena German | 1192 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1154 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1150 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1225 | — |
Instruction Following Amazon Nova Micro leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 56.3 (#272), Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 53.9 (#284)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Granite 3.0 2b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1174 | 1056 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 48% | — |
| IFEval | 76% | — |
Long Context Amazon Nova Micro leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#229), Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 32.5 (#268)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Granite 3.0 2b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1205 | 1070 |
Writing & Preference Amazon Nova Micro leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 39.5 (#247), Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 29.6 (#292)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Granite 3.0 2b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1208 | 1080 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1172 | 1046 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1178 | 1053 |
| WildBench | 74.3% | — |
| LiveBench Language | 15.8% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Amazon Nova Micro better than Granite 3.0 2b Instruct?
Amazon Nova Micro and Granite 3.0 2b Instruct score almost the same on the Noometry Index (30.4 vs 30.8), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Is Amazon Nova Micro or Granite 3.0 2b Instruct better for coding?
Amazon Nova Micro scores higher on coding benchmarks: 30.5 versus 28.3 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Micro and Granite 3.0 2b Instruct share?
12 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Micro has 32 scored results on Noometry and Granite 3.0 2b Instruct has 13.