Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Nova Micro leads with 23.6% higher average benchmark score. Overall, Nova Micro is the stronger choice for coding tasks.
Gemma 3 1B was created as an ultra-lightweight open-source model, designed to enable AI capabilities on devices with limited resources. Built with just 1 billion parameters while maintaining instruction-following abilities, it serves edge computing, mobile applications, and scenarios where minimal footprint is essential.
Amazon
Amazon Nova Micro was created as an ultra-compact multimodal model, designed for deployment in resource-constrained environments. Built to bring text and image understanding to edge devices and latency-sensitive applications, it extends Amazon's AI capabilities to minimal footprint scenarios.
3 months newer

Nova Micro
Amazon
2024-11-20

Gemma 3 1B
2025-03-12
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 5 common benchmarks

Gemma 3 1B

Nova Micro
Available providers and their performance metrics

Gemma 3 1B

Nova Micro
Bedrock

Gemma 3 1B

Nova Micro

Gemma 3 1B

Nova Micro