Model comparison
Amazon Nova Micro vs Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct
Amazon Nova Micro and Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct 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.
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Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- The widest gap is in agentic & tool use, where Amazon Nova Micro leads 22.1 to 18.6.
- Amazon Nova Micro is cheaper at $0.035 / $0.14 per million input/output tokens, against $2.80 / $8.40 for Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct.
- Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct accepts more context: 131K tokens versus 128K.
- Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Amazon Nova Micro | Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 30.4 | 29.9 |
| Released | 2024-12-03 | 2024-09 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | 128K | 131K |
| Max output | 10K | 8K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.035 | $2.80 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.14 | $8.40 |
| Results tracked | 32 | 6 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Amazon Nova Micro: 30.5 (#295), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Coding | 20.2% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1218 | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Amazon Nova Micro leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 22.1 (#132), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: 18.6 (#144)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 22.3% | — |
| OSWorld | — | 5% |
Reasoning Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 17.4 (#294), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: 20.7 (#233)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 36% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 25.1% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1191 | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 34% | — |
| LiveBench | 29.6% | — |
Math Not comparable
Amazon Nova Micro: 26.9 (#254), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Omni-MATH | 21.4% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 34.5% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1206 | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
Amazon Nova Micro: 29.6 (#237), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU-Pro | 51.1% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 5.5% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 38.3% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1184 | — |
| MMLU | 70.8% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Amazon Nova Micro: —, Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: 33.5 (#97)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1107 |
| Video-MME | — | 73.5% |
| GeoBench | — | 62% |
| SpatialViz-Bench | — | 33.3% |
Multilingual Not comparable
Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#239), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1186 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1209 | — |
| LMArena French | 1238 | — |
| LMArena German | 1192 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1154 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1150 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1185 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1225 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Amazon Nova Micro: 56.3 (#272), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 48% | — |
| IFEval | 76% | — |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1174 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#229), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1205 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Amazon Nova Micro: 39.5 (#247), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1208 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1172 | — |
| WildBench | 74.3% | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1178 | — |
| LiveBench Language | 15.8% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Amazon Nova Micro better than Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct?
Amazon Nova Micro and Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct 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.
Which is cheaper, Amazon Nova Micro or Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct?
Amazon Nova Micro is cheaper. It lists at $0.035 per million input tokens and $0.14 per million output tokens; Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct lists at $2.80 and $8.40.
Which has the bigger context window?
Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct does, with 131K tokens against 128K.
How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Micro and Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct share?
0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Micro has 32 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct has 6.