GPT-4 vs Nova Micro Comparison

Comparing GPT-4 and Nova Micro across benchmarks, pricing, and capabilities.

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Performance Benchmarks

Comparative analysis across standard metrics

5 benchmarks

GPT-4 outperforms in 2 benchmarks (DROP, MMLU), while Nova Micro is better at 3 benchmarks (GPQA, HumanEval, MATH).

Nova Micro has a slight edge in benchmark performance.

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Arena Performance

Human preference votes

Pricing Analysis

Price comparison per million tokens

Nova Micro costs less

For input processing, GPT-4 ($30.00/1M tokens) is 1000.0x more expensive than Nova Micro ($0.03/1M tokens).

For output processing, GPT-4 ($60.00/1M tokens) is 428.6x more expensive than Nova Micro ($0.14/1M tokens).

In conclusion, GPT-4 is more expensive than Nova Micro.*

* Using a 3:1 ratio of input to output tokens

Lowest available price from all providers

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GPT-4

Input tokens$30.00

Output tokens$60.00

Best providerAzure

Nova Micro

Input tokens$0.03

Output tokens$0.14

Best providerAWS Bedrock

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Context Window

Maximum input and output token capacity

Nova Micro accepts 128,000 input tokens compared to GPT-4's 32,768 tokens. Nova Micro can generate longer responses up to 128,000 tokens, while GPT-4 is limited to 32,768 tokens.

GPT-4

Input32,768 tokens

Output32,768 tokens

Nova Micro

Input128,000 tokens

Output128,000 tokens

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Input Capabilities

Supported data types and modalities

GPT-4 supports multimodal inputs, whereas Nova Micro does not.

GPT-4 can handle both text and other forms of data like images, making it suitable for multimodal applications.

GPT-4

Text

Images

Audio

Video

Nova Micro

Text

Images

Audio

Video

License

Usage and distribution terms

Both models are licensed under proprietary licenses.

Both models have usage restrictions defined by their respective organizations.

GPT-4

Proprietary

Closed source

Nova Micro

Proprietary

Closed source

Release Timeline

When each model was launched

GPT-4 was released on 2023-06-13, while Nova Micro was released on 2024-11-20.

Nova Micro is 18 months newer than GPT-4.

GPT-4

Jun 13, 2023

2.8 years ago

Nova Micro

Nov 20, 2024

1.3 years ago

1.4yr newer

Knowledge Cutoff

When training data ends

GPT-4 has a documented knowledge cutoff of 2022-12-31, while Nova Micro's cutoff date is not specified.

We can confirm GPT-4's training data extends to 2022-12-31, but cannot make a direct comparison without Nova Micro's cutoff date.

GPT-4

Dec 2022

Nova Micro

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Provider Availability

GPT-4 is available from Azure, OpenAI. Nova Micro is available from Bedrock. The availability of providers can affect quality of the model and reliability.