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Model comparison

Amazon Nova Micro vs Phi-4 Mini

Amazon Nova Micro and Phi-4 Mini score almost the same on the Noometry Index (30.4 vs 30.9), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.

Amazon Nova Micro Amazon

30.4

Rank #294 Confirmed

Phi-4 Mini Microsoft

30.9

Rank #283 Reported

Summary

  • They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Amazon Nova Micro scores higher in 2 categories and Phi-4 Mini in 1 category; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Phi-4 Mini leads 22.4 to 17.4.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is Vectara Hallucination Rate: 5.5% for Amazon Nova Micro and 23.5% for Phi-4 Mini.
  • Amazon Nova Micro is cheaper at $0.035 / $0.14 per million input/output tokens, against $0.075 / $0.30 for Phi-4 Mini.
  • Phi-4 Mini has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Amazon Nova MicroPhi-4 Mini
ProviderAmazonMicrosoft
Noometry Index30.430.9
Released2024-12-032024-12-11
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window128K128K
Max output10K4K
Input $ / M tokens$0.035$0.075
Output $ / M tokens$0.14$0.30
Results tracked323

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Category by category

Coding Amazon Nova Micro leads

Amazon Nova Micro: 30.5 (#295), Phi-4 Mini: 28.1 (#317)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova MicroPhi-4 Mini
SciCode—10.8%
LiveBench Coding20.2%—
LMArena Coding1218—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Amazon Nova Micro: 22.1 (#132), Phi-4 Mini: —

BenchmarkAmazon Nova MicroPhi-4 Mini
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard22.3%—

Reasoning Phi-4 Mini leads

Amazon Nova Micro: 17.4 (#294), Phi-4 Mini: 22.4 (#195)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova MicroPhi-4 Mini
CritPt—0%
LiveBench Reasoning25.1%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1191—
LiveBench Data Analysis34%—
LiveBench29.6%—

Math Not comparable

Amazon Nova Micro: 26.9 (#254), Phi-4 Mini: —

BenchmarkAmazon Nova MicroPhi-4 Mini
Omni-MATH21.4%—
LiveBench Math34.5%—
LMArena Math1206—

Knowledge Amazon Nova Micro leads

Amazon Nova Micro: 29.6 (#237), Phi-4 Mini: 25.3 (#262)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova MicroPhi-4 Mini
Vectara Hallucination Rate5.5%23.5%
MMLU-Pro51.1%—
GPQA (HELM)38.3%—
LMArena Expert1184—
MMLU70.8%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#239), Phi-4 Mini: —

BenchmarkAmazon Nova MicroPhi-4 Mini
LMArena Non-English1186—
LMArena Chinese1209—
LMArena French1238—
LMArena German1192—
LMArena Japanese1154—
LMArena Korean1150—
LMArena Russian1185—
LMArena Spanish1225—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Amazon Nova Micro: 56.3 (#272), Phi-4 Mini: —

BenchmarkAmazon Nova MicroPhi-4 Mini
LiveBench Instruction Following48%—
IFEval76%—
LMArena Instruction Following1174—

Long Context Not comparable

Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#229), Phi-4 Mini: —

BenchmarkAmazon Nova MicroPhi-4 Mini
LMArena Longer Query1205—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Amazon Nova Micro: 39.5 (#247), Phi-4 Mini: —

BenchmarkAmazon Nova MicroPhi-4 Mini
LMArena Text1208—
LMArena Creative Writing1172—
WildBench74.3%—
LMArena Multi-Turn1178—
LiveBench Language15.8%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Amazon Nova Micro better than Phi-4 Mini?

Amazon Nova Micro and Phi-4 Mini score almost the same on the Noometry Index (30.4 vs 30.9), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Which is cheaper, Amazon Nova Micro or Phi-4 Mini?

Amazon Nova Micro is cheaper. It lists at $0.035 per million input tokens and $0.14 per million output tokens; Phi-4 Mini lists at $0.075 and $0.30.

Is Amazon Nova Micro or Phi-4 Mini better for coding?

Amazon Nova Micro scores higher on coding benchmarks: 30.5 versus 28.1 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Both accept 128K tokens.

How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Micro and Phi-4 Mini share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Amazon Nova Micro has 32 scored results on Noometry and Phi-4 Mini has 3.

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