Noometry

Model comparison

Amazon Nova Micro vs Qwen1.5-72B

Amazon Nova Micro and Qwen1.5-72B 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 . 17 shared benchmarks.

Amazon Nova Micro Amazon

30.4

Rank #294 Confirmed

Qwen1.5-72B Alibaba (Qwen)

30.8

Rank #285 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Micro scores higher in 4 categories and Qwen1.5-72B in 4 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Amazon Nova Micro leads 29.6 to 11.5.
  • Qwen1.5-72B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Amazon Nova MicroQwen1.5-72B
ProviderAmazonAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index30.430.8
Released2024-12-032024-02-04
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window128K—
Max output10K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.035—
Output $ / M tokens$0.14—
Results tracked3222

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Category by category

Coding Qwen1.5-72B leads

Amazon Nova Micro: 30.5 (#295), Qwen1.5-72B: 31.9 (#277)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova MicroQwen1.5-72B
LMArena Coding12181165
BigCodeBench Instruct—33.2%
LiveBench Coding20.2%—
BigCodeBench Complete—40.3%
HumanEval+—59.1%
MBPP+—61.6%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Amazon Nova Micro: 22.1 (#132), Qwen1.5-72B: —

BenchmarkAmazon Nova MicroQwen1.5-72B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard22.3%—

Reasoning Qwen1.5-72B leads

Amazon Nova Micro: 17.4 (#294), Qwen1.5-72B: 22.2 (#203)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova MicroQwen1.5-72B
LMArena Hard Prompts11911148
LiveBench Reasoning25.1%—
LiveBench Data Analysis34%—
LiveBench29.6%—

Math Qwen1.5-72B leads

Amazon Nova Micro: 26.9 (#254), Qwen1.5-72B: 33.2 (#205)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova MicroQwen1.5-72B
LMArena Math12061164
Omni-MATH21.4%—
LiveBench Math34.5%—

Knowledge Amazon Nova Micro leads

Amazon Nova Micro: 29.6 (#237), Qwen1.5-72B: 11.5 (#300)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova MicroQwen1.5-72B
LMArena Expert11841136
GPQA Diamond—28.8%
MMLU-Pro51.1%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate5.5%—
GPQA (HELM)38.3%—
MMLU70.8%—

Multilingual Amazon Nova Micro leads

Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#239), Qwen1.5-72B: 33.2 (#253)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova MicroQwen1.5-72B
LMArena Non-English11861135
LMArena Chinese12091186
LMArena French12381159
LMArena German11921084
LMArena Japanese11541061
LMArena Korean11501050
LMArena Russian11851104
LMArena Spanish12251110

Instruction Following Qwen1.5-72B leads

Amazon Nova Micro: 56.3 (#272), Qwen1.5-72B: 59.3 (#256)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova MicroQwen1.5-72B
LMArena Instruction Following11741141
LiveBench Instruction Following48%—
IFEval76%—

Long Context Amazon Nova Micro leads

Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#229), Qwen1.5-72B: 35.1 (#243)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova MicroQwen1.5-72B
LMArena Longer Query12051157

Writing & Preference Amazon Nova Micro leads

Amazon Nova Micro: 39.5 (#247), Qwen1.5-72B: 37.3 (#258)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova MicroQwen1.5-72B
LMArena Text12081166
LMArena Creative Writing11721137
LMArena Multi-Turn11781160
WildBench74.3%—
LiveBench Language15.8%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Amazon Nova Micro better than Qwen1.5-72B?

Amazon Nova Micro and Qwen1.5-72B 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 Qwen1.5-72B better for coding?

Qwen1.5-72B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 31.9 versus 30.5 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Micro and Qwen1.5-72B share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Micro has 32 scored results on Noometry and Qwen1.5-72B has 22.

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