Amazon Nova Micro alternatives
Looking for an alternative to Amazon Nova Micro? Here are the 6 closest llm provider / model options for AI coding, each ranked by how well it replaces Amazon Nova Micro — with the concrete reason to switch.
Quick comparison
| Model | Input price | SWE-bench | Context window | Speed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amazon Nova Micro (you) | $0.035 | 14% | 128K | Fast |
| Amazon Nova Lite | $0.06 | 24% | 300K | Fast |
| Gemma 4 31B | Free (self-hosted) | 32% | 256K | Standard |
| Phi-4 | Free (self-hosted) | 28% | 16K | Fast |
| Llama 3 (Ollama/Groq) | Free (self-hosted) | 28% | 8K-128K | Fast |
| Llama 4 Maverick | Free (self-hosted) | 46% | 1M+ | Fast |
| Qwen 3 Coder | Free (self-hosted) | 50% | 256K | Standard |
The best Amazon Nova Micro alternatives
Cheapest AWS-native model for high-volume coding tasks, Bedrock deployments
Why consider it instead:
- Higher SWE-bench (24% vs 14%)
- Bigger context window (300K)
Frontier open-weights on workstation, agentic coding, reasoning, local multimodal tasks
Why consider it instead:
- Cheaper — $0/1M input vs $0.035
- Higher SWE-bench (32% vs 14%)
- Bigger context window (256K)
Phi-4
Extremely small self-hosted coding model, edge devices, resource-constrained environments
Why consider it instead:
- Cheaper — $0/1M input vs $0.035
- Higher SWE-bench (28% vs 14%)
Local/offline use, privacy-sensitive work, no-cost experimentation
Why consider it instead:
- Cheaper — $0/1M input vs $0.035
- Higher SWE-bench (28% vs 14%)
Latest open-weights from Meta, large context, self-hosted coding with vision
Why consider it instead:
- Cheaper — $0/1M input vs $0.035
- Higher SWE-bench (46% vs 14%)
- Bigger context window (1M+)
Open-source coding specialist, long-context code generation, FIM completions on local hardware
Why consider it instead:
- Cheaper — $0/1M input vs $0.035
- Higher SWE-bench (50% vs 14%)
- Bigger context window (256K)
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