Nova Micro 1.0
Amazon · released Dec 5, 2024
- Type
- Proprietary
- Input
- None held
- Output
- None held
- Cached
- None held
We don't hold a list price for this model yet · hosted only — we hold no downloadable copy
Our take
Written Aug 3, 2026Nova Micro is Amazon's lightweight text-only model with a 128,000-token request limit and measured coding strength on Arena leaderboards. It is a low-cost, AWS-native option for teams already in the Amazon ecosystem.
Pick this for coding tasks where its Arena leaderboard score is the relevant signal, or for long-context text work up to 128,000 tokens within AWS. It is the cheapest Bedrock tier for this model line. Skip it if you need creative writing quality, strong instruction-following, or the ability to download and fine-tune weights.
The case for it
- Coding is the standout Arena category, scoring 73.6 points above its own overall text score and 90.7 points above its creative writing score.
- Pricing is identical across all three tracked providers, so there is no arbitrage hunt needed.
- Bedrock throughput is measured and stable, with only a four-token-per-second spread between the two endpoints.
The case against it
- Creative writing lags its own coding performance by a wide margin on Arena leaderboards.
- Instruction following is the weakest of its six measured Arena categories, 25.8 points below its overall text score.
- Proprietary weights with no disclosed licence, so there is no download or fine-tuning path.
How good is it?
IntelligencePuzzles, maths, exam questions
Arena Text (overall)138th of 143 · 1240.7
CodingWriting and fixing code on its own
Arena Coding136th of 143 · 1288.5
Arena Coding is the only board that has scored it for this.
AgenticPlanning, calling tools, staying on task
Nobody we watch has scored Nova Micro 1.0 for this. We would take the rating from Arena Agent (IPS).
WritingWe do not rate this
Two boards come close and neither tests writing: Arena Creative Writing asks people which of two replies they prefer, and LiveBench Language tests whether a model understood a passage. So we show where Nova Micro 1.0 placed and give it no mark out of five.
These tests check whether a model follows instructions — a precondition for all the work above, but not a measure of how well that work is done, which is why they get no rating.
Every published score for this model6 scoresEvery figure we hold, from 6 boards, with who ran it and a link to the source — including the boards no rating above is built on.
Or rent it from someone else
Cheapest of 3 live listings. Picked at the widest standard context we hold, within one quantisation slice, so the numbers beside it are a price one host actually charges.
- per 1M tokens
- $0.035 in / $0.14 out
- Context served
- 128K
- Throughput
- Not measured
| Provider | In / out per 1M tokens | Context | Throughput | Trains on prompts | Logs prompts | Zero retention |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenRouter | $0.035 / $0.14 | 128K | not measured | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown |
| Amazon Bedrockeu-west-1 | $0.035 / $0.14 | 128K | 133 tok/s | No | No | Confirmed |
| Amazon Bedrock | $0.035 / $0.14 | 128K | 152 tok/s | No | No | Confirmed |
Amazon BedrockAcross the 3 listings we hold: 2 say they do not train on prompts, 0 say they do and 1 do not say. 2 appear in the zero-retention registry we check; the rest are unknown to us rather than confirmed either way.
What each host's API supports
From the parameter list each endpoint publishes. Streaming is omitted: nothing we hold reports it, for any model.
- ✓
- Supported
- ✗
- Not supported
- Not published
- host gave no parameter list
| Provider | Tool calling | JSON output | Strict schema |
|---|---|---|---|
| OpenRouter | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Amazon Bedrockeu-west-1 | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Amazon Bedrock | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
Tool calling: 3 of 3 listings say yes. JSON output: 0 of 3 listings say yes, 3 say no. Strict schema: 0 of 3 listings say yes, 3 say no.
When we formed this view
Dates behind this page
Prices last checked 9d ago
What we do not know about this model yet
- Nothing we hold says whether an endpoint streams, so we do not show it either way.
- 1 of 3 listings do not say whether they train on prompts.
- We don't hold a list price for this model yet — the gap is ours, not the lab's.
- We hold no cached-input rate for any of its listings.
Licence and identifiers
What the licence allowsWe hold no licence record for this model. Inside are the identifiers you need to pull it — its Hugging Face repo where we have one, our slug and a machine-readable card.
Licence
Commercial API terms. We hold no licence record for this model, so there is nothing to summarise here.
Identifiers
- Modality record
- text->text
- Catalogue slug
- amazon-nova-micro-1-0