Amazon
5 models built
Amazon entered the foundation model business through AWS, and its Nova lineup is built around Amazon Bedrock rather than a standalone API product. The company (Amazon.com, Inc., founded 1994, US) offers five Nova models on OpenKey, ranging from a text-only micro model to a premier tier with a 1,000,000-token context window. The strategy is clear: cover the range from cheap, high-volume text tasks up through multimodal work (text, image, file, and video input) at a flagship price point. Nova Premier 1.0 and Nova Pro 1.0 both show up in design_arena website benchmarks, ranked 108 (elo 878) and 111 (elo 839) respectively, giving some independent signal on where they land competitively.
Lineup
For cheap, high-throughput text tasks, Nova Micro 1.0 is the one to reach for at $0.035/$0.14 per million input/output tokens — on OpenKey that's $0.03605/$0.1442 after the flat 3% fee ($0.035 x 1.03 and $0.14 x 1.03). Nova Lite 1.0 ($0.06/$0.24) adds image input and a 300,000-token context window for not much more. If you need the largest context or top-end multimodal reasoning (image, file, video), go with Nova 2 Lite ($0.30/$2.50, 1M context) or Nova Premier 1.0 ($2.50/$12.50, 1M context), Amazon's most capable and most expensive model in this lineup. Nova Pro 1.0 ($0.80/$3.20) sits in between as a multimodal option with benchmark results to back it up.
- Nova 2 LiteDec 2, 2025 1M $0.309 $2.58 ctx 1M · in $0.309 · out $2.58
- Nova Premier 1.0Oct 31, 2025 1M $2.58 $12.88 ctx 1M · in $2.58 · out $12.88
- Nova Lite 1.0Dec 5, 2024 300K $0.062 $0.247 ctx 300K · in $0.062 · out $0.247
- Nova Micro 1.0Dec 5, 2024 128K $0.036 $0.144 ctx 128K · in $0.036 · out $0.144
- Nova Pro 1.0Dec 5, 2024 300K $0.824 $3.30 ctx 300K · in $0.824 · out $3.30
Prices per 1M tokens, flat 3% fee included.
Questions
- What's the price range for Amazon's Nova models on OpenKey?
- Provider list prices run from $0.035/$0.14 per million input/output tokens (Nova Micro 1.0) up to $2.50/$12.50 (Nova Premier 1.0). OpenKey adds a flat 3% fee on top, so Nova Micro comes to $0.03605/$0.1442 and Nova Premier comes to $2.575/$12.875 per million tokens.
- Which Amazon Nova model should I use if I want the cheapest option?
- Nova Micro 1.0 is the cheapest at $0.035 input / $0.14 output per million tokens, text-only, with a 128,000-token context window. It's the right pick for high-volume, low-complexity text tasks where cost per call matters most.
- Are there any free Amazon models on OpenKey?
- No. Amazon has 5 models on OpenKey and none are free, unlike some of the 25 free models available across the other 51 labs on the platform. All five Nova models are provider-priced through Amazon Bedrock.