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Model comparison

Amazon Nova Micro vs Granite 3.0 8b Instruct

Granite 3.0 8b Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.1 to 29.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 12 shared benchmarks.

Amazon Nova Micro Amazon

29.9

Rank #290 Confirmed

Granite 3.0 8b Instruct IBM

31.1

Rank #266 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 12 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Micro scores higher in 6 categories and Granite 3.0 8b Instruct in 2 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in multilingual, where Amazon Nova Micro leads 36.7 to 27.4.
  • Granite 3.0 8b Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Amazon Nova MicroGranite 3.0 8b Instruct
ProviderAmazonIBM
Noometry Index29.931.1
Released2024-12-03—
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window128K—
Max output10K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.035—
Output $ / M tokens$0.14—
Results tracked3214

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Category by category

Coding Too close to call

Amazon Nova Micro: 30.0 (#289), Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 29.1 (#297)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova MicroGranite 3.0 8b Instruct
LMArena Coding12181113
BigCodeBench Instruct—29.3%
LiveBench Coding20.2%—
BigCodeBench Complete—35.4%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Amazon Nova Micro: 21.9 (#125), Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: —

BenchmarkAmazon Nova MicroGranite 3.0 8b Instruct
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard22.3%—

Reasoning Granite 3.0 8b Instruct leads

Amazon Nova Micro: 16.7 (#289), Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 20.0 (#227)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova MicroGranite 3.0 8b Instruct
LMArena Hard Prompts11911092
LiveBench Reasoning25.1%—
LiveBench Data Analysis34%—
LiveBench29.6%—

Math Granite 3.0 8b Instruct leads

Amazon Nova Micro: 24.9 (#252), Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 30.3 (#211)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova MicroGranite 3.0 8b Instruct
LMArena Math12061143
Omni-MATH21.4%—
LiveBench Math34.5%—

Knowledge Too close to call

Amazon Nova Micro: 29.2 (#231), Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 29.1 (#233)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova MicroGranite 3.0 8b Instruct
LMArena Expert11841087
MMLU-Pro51.1%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate5.5%—
GPQA (HELM)38.3%—
MMLU70.8%—

Multilingual Amazon Nova Micro leads

Amazon Nova Micro: 36.7 (#234), Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 27.4 (#271)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova MicroGranite 3.0 8b Instruct
LMArena Non-English11861037
LMArena Chinese12091063
LMArena Russian11851060
LMArena French1237—
LMArena German1192—
LMArena Japanese1154—
LMArena Korean1150—
LMArena Spanish1225—

Instruction Following Too close to call

Amazon Nova Micro: 56.6 (#267), Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 56.2 (#271)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova MicroGranite 3.0 8b Instruct
LMArena Instruction Following11741088
LiveBench Instruction Following48%—
IFEval76%—

Long Context Amazon Nova Micro leads

Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#224), Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 34.0 (#247)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova MicroGranite 3.0 8b Instruct
LMArena Longer Query12061122

Writing & Preference Amazon Nova Micro leads

Amazon Nova Micro: 39.7 (#242), Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 31.2 (#280)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova MicroGranite 3.0 8b Instruct
LMArena Text12081096
LMArena Creative Writing11721071
LMArena Multi-Turn11781063
WildBench74.3%—
LiveBench Language15.8%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Amazon Nova Micro better than Granite 3.0 8b Instruct?

Granite 3.0 8b Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.1 to 29.9 on the Noometry Index.

Is Amazon Nova Micro or Granite 3.0 8b Instruct better for coding?

They score almost the same on coding (30.0 vs 29.1); test both on your own repository before choosing.

How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Micro and Granite 3.0 8b Instruct share?

12 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Micro has 32 scored results on Noometry and Granite 3.0 8b Instruct has 14.

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