Model comparison
Amazon Nova Micro vs Qwen3.5-9B
Qwen3.5-9B is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.8 to 30.4 on the Noometry Index. Amazon Nova Micro costs 1.8× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Qwen3.5-9B's lead doesn't matter for your workload.
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Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Qwen3.5-9B leads 46.0 to 29.6.
- Amazon Nova Micro is cheaper at $0.035 / $0.14 per million input/output tokens, against $0.10 / $0.15 for Qwen3.5-9B.
- Qwen3.5-9B accepts more context: 262K tokens versus 128K.
- Qwen3.5-9B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Amazon Nova Micro | Qwen3.5-9B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 30.4 | 33.8 |
| Released | 2024-12-03 | 2026-02-23 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | 128K | 262K |
| Max output | 10K | 66K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.035 | $0.10 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.14 | $0.15 |
| Results tracked | 32 | 10 |
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Category by category
Coding Qwen3.5-9B leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 30.5 (#295), Qwen3.5-9B: 35.9 (#217)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Qwen3.5-9B |
|---|---|---|
| SciCode | — | 27.5% |
| LiveBench Coding | 20.2% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1218 | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Amazon Nova Micro leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 22.1 (#132), Qwen3.5-9B: 14.5 (#151)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Qwen3.5-9B |
|---|---|---|
| Terminal-Bench | — | 9.2% |
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 22.3% | — |
Reasoning Qwen3.5-9B leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 17.4 (#294), Qwen3.5-9B: 23.1 (#182)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Qwen3.5-9B |
|---|---|---|
| CritPt | — | 0.3% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 12% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 25.1% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1191 | — |
| DTBench | — | 71.2% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 34% | — |
| LMCA | — | 24.5% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 139.46 |
| LiveBench | 29.6% | — |
Math Qwen3.5-9B leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 26.9 (#254), Qwen3.5-9B: 34.8 (#192)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Qwen3.5-9B |
|---|---|---|
| MathArena Final-Answer Competitions | — | 48.5% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 61.7% |
| Omni-MATH | 21.4% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 34.5% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1206 | — |
Knowledge Qwen3.5-9B leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 29.6 (#237), Qwen3.5-9B: 46.0 (#84)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Qwen3.5-9B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 79% |
| MMLU-Pro | 51.1% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 5.5% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 38.3% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1184 | — |
| MMLU | 70.8% | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#239), Qwen3.5-9B: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Qwen3.5-9B |
|---|---|---|
| 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), Qwen3.5-9B: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Qwen3.5-9B |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 48% | — |
| IFEval | 76% | — |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1174 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#229), Qwen3.5-9B: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Qwen3.5-9B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1205 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Amazon Nova Micro: 39.5 (#247), Qwen3.5-9B: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Qwen3.5-9B |
|---|---|---|
| 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 Qwen3.5-9B?
Qwen3.5-9B is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.8 to 30.4 on the Noometry Index. Amazon Nova Micro costs 1.8× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Qwen3.5-9B's lead doesn't matter for your workload.
Which is cheaper, Amazon Nova Micro or Qwen3.5-9B?
Amazon Nova Micro is cheaper. It lists at $0.035 per million input tokens and $0.14 per million output tokens; Qwen3.5-9B lists at $0.10 and $0.15.
Is Amazon Nova Micro or Qwen3.5-9B better for coding?
Qwen3.5-9B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 35.9 versus 30.5 in the Noometry coding category.
Which has the bigger context window?
Qwen3.5-9B does, with 262K tokens against 128K.
How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Micro and Qwen3.5-9B share?
0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Micro has 32 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.5-9B has 10.