Amazon: Nova Premier 1.0
Analysis Summary
Nova Premier is Amazon's flagship multimodal model, offering vision, tool use, function calling, and a very large 1 million token context window. However, its reasoning, coding, and agentic benchmark scores sit well below the broader field.
The huge context window suits ingesting very long documents or codebases, but weak reasoning limits how much can be reliably extracted or acted on from that context. It is better suited to retrieval-style tasks than complex analysis or autonomous agent work.
Pricing is high for the capability delivered, so businesses should weigh the context advantage carefully against stronger, better-value alternatives for anything beyond long-document lookup.
Assessed July 25, 2026
Editorial notes
Amazon Nova Premier offers a 1M token context window and multimodal support but trails badly on reasoning and coding benchmarks.
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DFO Verdict
Amazon Nova Premier offers a 1M token context window and multimodal support but trails badly on reasoning and coding benchmarks.
Benchmark scores
Magenta = intelligence · Ink = technical/agentic · Cyan = content & long-context · Grey = community benchmarks. Data: Artificial Analysis, Hugging Face.
12.7 Intelligence Index·17.3 Math Index
How Amazon: Nova Premier 1.0 compares
Amazon: Nova Premier 1.0 ranks #210 of 401 AI models we track for overall intelligence. Its 1M-token context window is larger than 86% of the models we list. At $2.50 per million input tokens it is cheaper than 14% of comparable models.
Dark bar = input · light bar = output, scaled to the priciest peer.
1M tokens ≈ 8 full-length novels or ~2,500 pages of business documents in a single request.
Strongest on value. The pulled-in intelligence corner is the trade-off, and if the shape matters more than the price, this is your model.
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| Token Type | Cost per 1M tokens | Cost per 1K tokens |
|---|---|---|
| Input | $2.50 | $0.002500 |
| Output | $12.50 | $0.012500 |
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A website chatbot handling around 100 customer conversations a day, a few short messages each.
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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.
Frequently asked questions about Amazon: Nova Premier 1.0
How much does Amazon: Nova Premier 1.0 cost?
Amazon: Nova Premier 1.0 costs $2.50 per million input tokens and $12.50 per million output tokens.
What is the context window of Amazon: Nova Premier 1.0?
Amazon: Nova Premier 1.0 has a context window of 1,000,000 tokens (1M).
What can Amazon: Nova Premier 1.0 do?
Amazon: Nova Premier 1.0 supports image/vision input, tool use, and function calling.
Who created Amazon: Nova Premier 1.0?
Amazon: Nova Premier 1.0 is developed by Amazon and was released on October 31, 2025.
