Amazon: Nova Premier 1.0

amazon · Released Oct 31, 2025
DFO score #224 / 706
17.2 leaderboard score
Speed #314 / 338
32.8 tok/s
Input Price #625 / 706
$2.50 per 1M tokens
Output Price #646 / 706
$12.50 per 1M tokens
Context #101 / 706
1M tokens

Analysis Summary

Amazon Nova Premier 1.0 is a text-and-image model with a 1M context window, tool use, and function calling. Its long context and vision support are useful product features, but measured reasoning and coding results are limited. The listed input and output prices are high, so the model needs a clear quality advantage on a specific workflow to justify its use.

It may fit analysis over very large documents, visual document processing, or workflows where keeping extensive source material in one context is valuable. The reported long-context result is modest, however, so teams should test retrieval and synthesis quality on their own materials rather than relying on context capacity alone. It is not an obvious choice for routine high-volume content or coding.

Run focused comparisons against less expensive options before adoption. Reserve it for cases where the large context or vision capability demonstrably improves outcomes.

Assessed September 23, 2026

Editorial notes

Nova Premier 1.0 offers a 1M context window, vision, and tool calling, but its listed token prices are high and benchmark results are limited.

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DFO Verdict

Nova Premier 1.0 offers a 1M context window, vision, and tool calling, but its listed token prices are high and benchmark results are limited.

#224 of 706 overall Down 4 this week

Benchmarks

Intelligence Index 10.4 #222 of 439 · Artificial Analysis
Coding Index Not published yet Artificial Analysis
Agentic Index Not published yet Artificial Analysis
Creative Writing Not rated Arena rating
Instruction Following Not rated Arena rating
GPQA Diamond 56.9%
HLE 4.7%
MMLU Pro 73.3%
MATH 500 83.9%
AIME 17%
AIME 2025 17.3%
SciCode 27.9%
LiveCodeBench 31.7%
TerminalBench Hard 6.8%
τ²-Bench 38.3%
IFBench 36.2%
LCR 30%

Artificial Analysis data refreshed Oct 15, 2026. Arena ratings from the Oct 13, 2026 text leaderboard, with style control. Bars: magenta = reasoning, ink = coding and agents, cyan = instructions and long context.

Artificial Analysis has not published coding or agentic results for Amazon: Nova Premier 1.0 yet. Until it does, the model sits below tested models on the Coding and AI Agents lists.

Artificial Analysis no longer lists this model, so its indexes are converted from their older scale to stay comparable.

How Amazon: Nova Premier 1.0 compares

Amazon: Nova Premier 1.0 ranks #222 of 439 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 11% of comparable models.

Position in the field
DFO score: ahead of 69% of models #222
Speed: faster than 7% of models #314
Price: cheaper than 11% of models #625
Context: larger than 86% of models #101
worst in fieldmedianbest in field
Price vs frontier peers · $ per 1M tokens
Amazon: Nova Premier 1.0 $2.50 in $12.50 out
Anthropic: Claude Opus 5.5 $4.00 in $20.00 out
Google: Gemini 4 Argon $2.00 in $10.00 out
Anthropic: Claude Fable 5.1 $10.00 in $50.00 out

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

Context window vs peers · tokens

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

Pricing

Token Type Cost per 1M tokens Cost per 1K tokens
Input $2.50 $0.002500
Output $12.50 $0.012500

What would Amazon: Nova Premier 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

$19.80/mo Amazon: Nova Premier 1.0 $0.0066 per request
$31.68/mo Anthropic: Claude Opus 5.5 $0.01 per request
$7.92/mo Google: Gemini 4 Argon (batch) · best value $0.0026 per request

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

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About Amazon: Nova Premier 1.0

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.

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