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Amazon Nova Premier

Amazon's most capable Nova multimodal model for complex reasoning and as a teacher model for distillation, with first-party AWS Bedrock on-demand rates and a 1M-token context window.

ActiveReleased October 31, 2025Knowledge cutoff October 1, 2024
Tool callingCan invoke external tools and APIs (function calling) mid-response.Structured outputCan return JSON or schema-constrained responses instead of free text.ReasoningUses extended thinking / chain-of-thought for harder multi-step problems.Effort controlLets you dial thinking depth (low / medium / high) to trade cost for quality.Fine-tuningSupports training a custom variant on your own data (vendor fine-tune API or self-hosted open weights).

Source: Amazon Nova pricing, Amazon Bedrock pricing, Amazon Nova overview

Price per 1M tokens
$2.5 in / $12.5 out
Context window1,000,000
Max output25,000
Cache read$0.625 / M
Min cache prefix1,000 tokens
Cache lifetime5 min
Batch discount-50%
ModalitiesText, Image, Video → Text

Specs

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LifecycleLegacy on Bedrock (EOL September 14, 2026)
DistillationTeacher model for distillation; not itself fine-tuned via Bedrock SFT
Tool callingClient-side tool calling on bedrock-runtime
Prompt cache1K min tokens per checkpoint; 5 min TTL; max 20K cached tokens

Pricing

Every billing leg from the live catalog, in USD per 1M tokens.

Billing legRateBatch
Input$2.5 / M$1.25 / M
Output$12.5 / M$6.25 / M
Cache read$0.625 / Mn/a

Cost calculator

Billing-grade math over the rate card above, including the thinking tokens most estimates miss.

Hidden reasoning tokens bill as output. 1.0x = thinking off. Medium-effort reasoning typically lands near 3x; heavy reasoning runs 6x to 8x. Set it to match your workload.

Estimated monthly cost
$1.3K
at current list prices
Fresh input$500
Cached input$0.00
Output incl. thinking$750
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Provider

Where this model runs, and what it charges.

PlatformInput / MOutput / MCache read / MBatchAccess
AWS Bedrock
$2.5$12.5$0.625✓Direct

Price history

Has this model gotten cheaper or more expensive?

No changePriced at $2.5 / $12.5 per 1M since August 5, 2026.

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