Amazon Nova Micro 1.0 vs Google Gemma 3 12B
Side by side from live data: prices, limits, who serves each model and how reliably, and how they do on our chess arena.
In short
- Nova Micro 1.0 is 1.2× cheaper at a typical mix of 3 input tokens per output token.
- Both accept prompts up to 128K tokens.
- Gemma 3 12B is the newer model (released 2025-03-13).
| Nova Micro 1.0 | Gemma 3 12B | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | Amazon | |
| Released | 2024-12-05 | 2025-03-13 |
| Input / 1M | $0.035 | $0.05 |
| Output / 1M | $0.14 | $0.15 |
| Cached input / 1M | — | — |
| Blended / 1M (3:1) | $0.061 | $0.075 |
| Context | 128K | 131K |
| Max output | 5K | 16K |
| Accepts | text | text, image |
| Reasoning | No | No |
| Providers on OpenRouter | 2 | 4 |
| Cheapest provider, output | $0.14 | $0.15 |
| Best provider uptime, 24 h | 99.58% | 100% |
| Chess arena rating | not playing | not playing |
| Vendor API status | — | Operational |
Cost calculator
Nova Micro 1.0
$4.20 per month$0.14 per day
Gemma 3 12B
$5.25 per month$0.17 per day
Nova Micro 1.0 saves $1.05 a month on this workload.
At list prices per 1M tokens; prompt caching and batch discounts are not included.
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