Amazon: Nova Micro 1.0

Amazon: Nova Micro 1.0

amazon · Released Dec 5, 2024
Intelligence #304 / 756
33.3 our score
Speed #14 / 330
286.7 tok/s
Input Price #168 / 756
$0.035 per 1M tokens
Output Price #179 / 756
$0.140 per 1M tokens
Context #490 / 756
128,000 tokens

Analysis Summary

Amazon Nova Micro 1.0 is positioned as a compact text model for high-throughput workloads. It provides a 128K context window, tool use, and function calling, giving it a practical foundation for routing, classification, extraction, and structured marketing operations. The supplied intelligence indicator is limited, so it should not be expected to handle difficult reasoning or sophisticated editorial judgement.

For Design for Online, the exceptionally low listed pricing makes it attractive for bulk SEO metadata, content tagging, lead categorisation, brief parsing, and workflow orchestration. It is less suitable for polished long-form writing, nuanced brand voice, complex code, or tasks requiring visual interpretation. Clear schemas, constrained prompts, and automated checks would improve reliability.

Use Nova Micro as a volume and utility model where cost and latency matter more than expressive quality.

Assessed September 7, 2026

Editorial notes

Nova Micro 1.0 is an low-cost, fast-workflow candidate with a 128K context window, tool use, and function calling, best suited to routine automation rather than complex reasoning or creative work.

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DFO Verdict

Nova Micro 1.0 is an low-cost, fast-workflow candidate with a 128K context window, tool use, and function calling, best suited to routine automation rather than complex reasoning or creative work.

#304 of 756 overall Up 148 this week

How Amazon: Nova Micro 1.0 compares

Amazon: Nova Micro 1.0 ranks #295 of 435 AI models we track for overall intelligence. Its 128K-token context window is larger than 35% of the models we list. At $0.04 per million input tokens it is cheaper than 78% of comparable models.

Position in the field
Intelligence: smarter than 60% of models #304
Speed: faster than 96% of models #14
Price: cheaper than 78% of models #168
Context: larger than 35% of models #490
worst in fieldmedianbest in field
Price vs frontier peers · $ per 1M tokens
Amazon: Nova Micro 1.0 $0.04 in $0.14 out
OpenAI: GPT-6 Astra $10.00 in $50.00 out
Anthropic: Claude Fable 5.1 $10.00 in $50.00 out
Claude Opus 5 $5.00 in $25.00 out

Dark bar = input · light bar = output, scaled to the priciest peer.

Context window vs peers · tokens
Amazon: Nova Micro 1.0 128K

1M tokens ≈ 8 full-length novels or ~2,500 pages of business documents in a single request.

Intelligence0.6Technical0Value8Content5.8
Performance profile

Strongest on value. The pulled-in technical corner is the trade-off, and if the shape matters more than the price, this is your model.

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Pricing

Token Type Cost per 1M tokens Cost per 1K tokens
Input $0.04 $0.000035
Output $0.14 $0.000140

What would Amazon: Nova Micro 1.0 cost your business?

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A website chatbot handling around 100 customer conversations a day, a few short messages each.

3,000
One request is one message, email, draft or automation call.
1,200 tokens

$0/mo Amazon: Nova Micro 1.0

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DFO AI AUTOMATION

These numbers get smaller with the right architecture.

We route routine calls to cheap models and save Amazon: Nova Micro 1.0 for the hard ones. Most clients cut their estimate by 60-80%.

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About Amazon: Nova Micro 1.0

Amazon Nova Micro 1.0 is a text-only model that delivers the lowest latency responses in the Amazon Nova family of models at a very low cost. With a context length..

Frequently asked questions about Amazon: Nova Micro 1.0

How much does Amazon: Nova Micro 1.0 cost?

Amazon: Nova Micro 1.0 costs $0.04 per million input tokens and $0.14 per million output tokens.

What is the context window of Amazon: Nova Micro 1.0?

Amazon: Nova Micro 1.0 has a context window of 128,000 tokens (128K).

What can Amazon: Nova Micro 1.0 do?

Amazon: Nova Micro 1.0 supports tool use and function calling.

Who created Amazon: Nova Micro 1.0?

Amazon: Nova Micro 1.0 is developed by Amazon and was released on December 5, 2024.

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