Amazon · language model
Nova Premier 1.0: pricing, context and benchmarks
Nova Premier 1.0 is Amazon's model released on October 31, 2025. It costs $2.5 per million input tokens and $12.5 per million output tokens, with a 1M-token context window. No independent score has been published for it so far.
What you need to know about Nova Premier 1.0
Amazon, based in United States, put Nova Premier 1.0 online on October 31, 2025. It accepts text and images as input and produces text. Its context window reaches 1,000,000 tokens, larger than 77 % of the models in the registry, and it can write up to 32,000 tokens in one go.
It has been available for about 12 months, long enough for its prices and scores to have settled.
Nova Premier 1.0 pricing
On OpenRouter, Nova Premier 1.0 costs $2.5 per million input tokens and $12.5 per million output tokens. Counting three tokens read for every token written, its average price is $5 per million, more expensive than 89 % of paid models (6.6 times the median of $0.76).
A concrete example: a task that sends 2,000 tokens (about 1,500 words) and receives a 500-token answer costs $0.0113. At 1,000 tasks a day, budget $338 a month. The price calculator redoes this with your own volumes.
Tokens already sent and cached are billed at $0.625 per million.
Performance and benchmarks
Epoch AI does not yet publish a capabilities index for Nova Premier 1.0. We therefore show no made-up performance rating: only price, context and features count towards its score.
Features, privacy and local use
- It supports tool calling, so it can drive an AI agent, call APIs or MCP servers.
Its weights are not published: it can only be used through the Amazon API or a broker such as OpenRouter, which means sending your data off your machines.
Other Amazon models
| Model | Released | Avg. price | ECI |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nova 2 Lite | Dec 2, 2025 | $0.85 | — |
| Nova Lite 1.0 | Dec 5, 2024 | $0.11 | — |
| Nova Micro 1.0 | Dec 5, 2024 | $0.06 | — |
| Nova Pro 1.0 | Dec 5, 2024 | $1.4 | — |
Verdict
Computed score: 33/100, from public data (performance, price, context, features).
Strengths
- Very large context (1M tokens): long documents or a whole codebase fit in one request.
Limitations
- Expensive: costlier than 89 % of paid models.
- No independent score published: performance cannot be verified.
Avoid if…
- you process large volumes on a tight budget;
- your data must not leave your servers.
Alternatives
Comparisons and tools
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Frequently asked questions
How much does Nova Premier 1.0 cost?
$2.5 per million input tokens and $12.5 per million output tokens on OpenRouter (checked October 25, 2026). A task with 2,000 tokens read and 500 written costs $0.0113.
How big is Nova Premier 1.0's context window?
1,000,000 tokens, roughly 750,000 words, with a maximum of 32,000 output tokens.
Can Nova Premier 1.0 run locally?
No, Amazon does not publish its weights: it is API-only.
Is Nova Premier 1.0 suitable for an AI agent?
Technically yes: it supports tool calling. Then check its cost for your volume.
What are the alternatives to Nova Premier 1.0?
The closest models on price and performance are Claude Sonnet 4.6, Claude Sonnet 4.5, and Qwen3.8 Max Prime.
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