Model comparison
Amazon Nova Micro vs Qwen3 Coder Next
Qwen3 Coder Next is the stronger model overall, scoring 34.3 to 30.4 on the Noometry Index. Amazon Nova Micro costs 4.7× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Qwen3 Coder Next's lead doesn't matter for your workload.
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Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- The widest gap is in coding, where Qwen3 Coder Next leads 36.3 to 30.5.
- Amazon Nova Micro is cheaper at $0.035 / $0.14 per million input/output tokens, against $0.12 / $0.80 for Qwen3 Coder Next.
- Qwen3 Coder Next accepts more context: 262K tokens versus 128K.
- Qwen3 Coder Next has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Amazon Nova Micro | Qwen3 Coder Next | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 30.4 | 34.3 |
| Released | 2024-12-03 | 2026-02-02 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | 128K | 262K |
| Max output | 10K | 66K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.035 | $0.12 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.14 | $0.80 |
| Results tracked | 32 | 3 |
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Category by category
Coding Qwen3 Coder Next leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 30.5 (#295), Qwen3 Coder Next: 36.3 (#210)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Qwen3 Coder Next |
|---|---|---|
| SciCode | — | 32.3% |
| WeirdML | — | 34.4% |
| LiveBench Coding | 20.2% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1218 | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Amazon Nova Micro: 22.1 (#132), Qwen3 Coder Next: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Qwen3 Coder Next |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 22.3% | — |
Reasoning Qwen3 Coder Next leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 17.4 (#294), Qwen3 Coder Next: 22.4 (#196)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Qwen3 Coder Next |
|---|---|---|
| CritPt | — | 0% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 25.1% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1191 | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 34% | — |
| LiveBench | 29.6% | — |
Math Not comparable
Amazon Nova Micro: 26.9 (#254), Qwen3 Coder Next: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Qwen3 Coder Next |
|---|---|---|
| Omni-MATH | 21.4% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 34.5% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1206 | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
Amazon Nova Micro: 29.6 (#237), Qwen3 Coder Next: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Qwen3 Coder Next |
|---|---|---|
| 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 Coder Next: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Qwen3 Coder Next |
|---|---|---|
| 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 Coder Next: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Qwen3 Coder Next |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 48% | — |
| IFEval | 76% | — |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1174 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#229), Qwen3 Coder Next: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Qwen3 Coder Next |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1205 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Amazon Nova Micro: 39.5 (#247), Qwen3 Coder Next: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Qwen3 Coder Next |
|---|---|---|
| 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 Coder Next?
Qwen3 Coder Next is the stronger model overall, scoring 34.3 to 30.4 on the Noometry Index. Amazon Nova Micro costs 4.7× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Qwen3 Coder Next's lead doesn't matter for your workload.
Which is cheaper, Amazon Nova Micro or Qwen3 Coder Next?
Amazon Nova Micro is cheaper. It lists at $0.035 per million input tokens and $0.14 per million output tokens; Qwen3 Coder Next lists at $0.12 and $0.80.
Is Amazon Nova Micro or Qwen3 Coder Next better for coding?
Qwen3 Coder Next scores higher on coding benchmarks: 36.3 versus 30.5 in the Noometry coding category.
Which has the bigger context window?
Qwen3 Coder Next does, with 262K tokens against 128K.
How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Micro and Qwen3 Coder Next share?
0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Micro has 32 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3 Coder Next has 3.