Amazon: Nova Micro 1.0
Analysis Summary
Amazon Nova Micro 1.0 is the smallest model in Amazon's Nova family, priced at just $0.035 input and $0.14 output per million tokens. It supports tool use and function calling, which gives it a foothold in lightweight agentic pipelines, though its intelligence and coding indices are limited and its agentic reliability is low.
For businesses, it is best suited to high-volume, simple classification, extraction, or routing tasks where cost efficiency matters more than reasoning depth. Its instruction-following and long-context scores are modest, and it would struggle with complex multi-step reasoning or code generation tasks.
At this price point, it is one of the most affordable tool-capable models available. Teams running large-scale automation at minimal cost per call will find it useful as a lightweight workhorse, provided tasks are well-scoped and do not require deep reasoning.
Assessed June 6, 2026
Editorial notes
Amazon Nova Micro 1.0 is an ultra-cheap text model with tool use and function calling, suited to high-volume, low-complexity automation where cost is the primary constraint.
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How Amazon: Nova Micro 1.0 compares
Amazon: Nova Micro 1.0 ranks #309 of 378 AI models we track for overall intelligence, #285 of 315 for coding, #271 of 289 for agentic tasks. Its 128K-token context window is larger than 43% of the models we list. At $0.04 per million input tokens it is cheaper than 75% of comparable models.
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..
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Model Information
| OpenRouter ID |
amazon/nova-micro-v1
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| Provider | amazon |
| Release Date | December 5, 2024 |
| Context Length | 128,000 tokens |
| Max Completion | 5,120 tokens |
| Status | Active |
Pricing
| Token Type | Cost per 1M tokens | Cost per 1K tokens |
|---|---|---|
| Input | $0.04 | $0.000035 |
| Output | $0.14 | $0.000140 |
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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).
Is Amazon: Nova Micro 1.0 good for coding?
On our coding benchmark index, Amazon: Nova Micro 1.0 ranks #285 of 315 models, placing it in the broader range of the field for code generation and debugging.
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.
