DBRX vs Amazon Nova Micro
A complete head-to-head: pricing, context window, benchmarks, modality coverage, and openness, with a programmatic verdict synthesized from the underlying data.
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DBRX specs · Amazon Nova Micro specs- PriceAmazon Nova Micro
Amazon Nova Micro publishes pricing ($0.14 / 1M output tokens) while DBRX does not.
- Context windowAmazon Nova Micro
Amazon Nova Micro accepts 128K tokens vs 32K, 4.0× the room for long documents and codebases.
- BenchmarksTie
No directly comparable public benchmarks are available for both models, check the spec sheets for individual scores.
- ModalitiesTie
Both handle text.
- OpennessDBRX
DBRX ships open weights (Databricks Open Model License); Amazon Nova Micro is API-only.
On balance Amazon Nova Micro edges ahead, winning 2 of 5 categories against DBRX's 1. Amazon Nova Micro publishes pricing ($0.14 / 1M output tokens) while DBRX does not. Amazon Nova Micro accepts 128K tokens vs 32K, 4.0× the room for long documents and codebases.
No directly comparable public benchmarks are available for both models, check the spec sheets for individual scores. Both target the same set of modalities (text), so the deciding factors are price, context, and raw quality. DBRX ships open weights (Databricks Open Model License); Amazon Nova Micro is API-only.
Amazon Nova Micro is the newer of the two, released 8 months after DBRX, which usually means a more recent knowledge cutoff and updated safety post-training. DBRX is usually picked for enterprise llm and sql generation workloads, while Amazon Nova Micro sees more deployments in cheapest llm and fastest llm. If pricing matters more than every last benchmark point, run the numbers in the calculator below before committing.
Side-by-side specs
| Spec | DBRX | Amazon Nova Micro |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Other | Other |
| Released | Mar 2024 | Dec 2024 |
| Modalities | text | text |
| Context window | 32K tokens | 128K tokens |
| Max output | , | , |
| Input · 1M | Pricing not published | $0.035 / 1M tokens |
| Output · 1M | Pricing not published | $0.14 / 1M tokens |
| Knowledge cutoff | , | , |
| Open weights | Yes (Databricks Open Model License) | No |
| API available | Yes | Yes |
Pricing at scale
What you'd actually pay at typical workloads. Numbers come from each model's published per-million-token rates.
- Light usage, 100k in / 50k out per day, vs $0.315
- Heavy usage, 1M in / 500k out per day, vs $3.15
- RAG workload, 5M in / 200k out per day, vs $6.09
Light usage, 100k in / 50k out per day: pricing not directly comparable (one or both models are missing public per-token rates). Heavy usage, 1M in / 500k out per day: pricing not directly comparable (one or both models are missing public per-token rates). RAG workload, 5M in / 200k out per day: pricing not directly comparable (one or both models are missing public per-token rates).
Estimated spend for the listed models at your usage. Numbers are derived from each model's published per-million-token rates.
- DBRXPricing unavailable
- Amazon Nova Micro$0.011
Benchmarks compared
Only sourced numbers. Where a benchmark is missing for one model we show the available value rather than fabricating the other.
- MMLU73.7
DBRX fits when…
- Databricks-native
- Tuned for enterprise SQL/code
- Self-hosting and on-prem requirements, open weights (Databricks Open Model License).
Amazon Nova Micro fits when…
- Lowest-cost frontier-lab model
- Native AWS integration
- Generous 128k context for the price tier
- Long-context tasks, handles 128K tokens vs 32K for DBRX.
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Frequently asked
Is DBRX or Amazon Nova Micro cheaper?
Per-token pricing isn't published for at least one of these models, check each model's spec page for current rates.Which has the larger context window?
Amazon Nova Micro accepts 128K tokens vs 32K for DBRX.Is DBRX or Amazon Nova Micro better for coding?
Both DBRX and Amazon Nova Micro are competitive on coding benchmarks. See each model's individual spec page for HumanEval and SWE-bench scores where published. For an opinionated pick, consult our Best LLM for Coding ranking.Are either of these models open source?
DBRX ships open weights (Databricks Open Model License). Amazon Nova Micro is API-only.When were DBRX and Amazon Nova Micro released?
DBRX was released by Other on 2024-03-27. Amazon Nova Micro was released by Other on 2024-12-03.
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