Amazon: Nova Micro 1.0
Amazon Nova Micro 1.0 is an ultra-affordable model with tool use and a 128K context window, but benchmark scores are weak across reasoning and coding, making it best suited to simple, high-volume text tasks where cost is the primary concern.
Assessment date: March 12, 2026
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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 of 128K tokens and optimized for speed and cost, Amazon Nova Micro excels at tasks such as text summarization, translation, content classification, interactive chat, and brainstorming. It has simple mathematical reasoning and coding abilities.
Capabilities
Architecture
| Modality | Text → Text |
| Tokenizer | Nova |
Performance Indices
Source: Artificial Analysis
Benchmark Scores
Evaluations
Benchmark data from Artificial Analysis and Hugging Face
Model Information
Pricing
| Token Type | Cost per 1M tokens | Cost per 1K tokens |
|---|---|---|
| Input | $0.04 | $0.000035 |
| Output | $0.14 | $0.000140 |
Live Performance
Live endpoint metrics — refreshed every 30 minutes.
