Nova Premier 1.0
by Amazon · amazon/nova-premier-v1 · #284 cheapest of 325 paid models
Prices updated Jul 22, 2026, 1:35 AM UTC · refreshed hourly
Amazon Nova Premier is the most capable of Amazon’s multimodal models for complex reasoning tasks and for use as the best teacher for distilling custom models.
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Pricing
Input
$2.50
per 1M tokens
Output
$12.50
per 1M tokens
Blended (3:1)
$5.00
3 input : 1 output
Cache read
$0.625
per 1M cached tokens
Cache write
—
per 1M tokens
Cache & batch economics
Effective prices for Nova Premier 1.0 with prompt caching.
| Cache hit rate | Effective blended $/1M | Example request* | vs no cache |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0% | $5.00 | $0.2675 | — |
| 50% | $4.30 | $0.1738 | −35% |
| 90% | $3.73 | $0.0987 | −63% |
*Example: 100K sticky context + 2K new input + 1K output. Batch discount is an approximate 50% off list rates (available for OpenAI / Anthropic / Google — not flagged for this creator). Confirm on the vendor’s pricing page.
What a request costs
| Workload | Input tokens | Output tokens | Cost / request | Cost / 1K requests |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Short chat message | 500 | 300 | $0.005 | $5.00 |
| Document summary | 8,000 | 1,000 | $0.0325 | $32.50 |
| Codebase question (RAG) | 30,000 | 2,000 | $0.1 | $100.00 |
| Long-context analysis | 150,000 | 5,000 | $0.4375 | $437.50 |
Performance
Intelligence Index
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AA composite quality
Coding Index
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Math Index
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Agentic Index
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Output speed
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median
Time to first token
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median
Time to first answer
—
after reasoning tokens
Design Arena Elo
| Category | Elo |
|---|---|
| Website | 863 |
Specs
Context window
1M
tokens
Max output
32K
tokens
Input modalities
text, image
Tokenizer
Nova