Nova Premier 1.0
Amazon · released Oct 31, 2025
- Type
- Closed
- Input
- None held
- Output
- None held
- Cached
- None held
We don't hold a list price for this model yet · hosted only — we have no record of published weights
Our take
Written Sep 4, 2026Nova Premier is Amazon's flagship text-and-image model built for long documents and coding tasks, with a one-million-token request limit. It is a proprietary, hosted-only service with a premium output rate and measured real-world coding performance.
Choose this for analysing documents that need the full one-million-token window, or for coding assistance on real repositories where its measured issue-resolution rate matters. Use it if you are already on Amazon Bedrock and can accept 19.5 tokens per second. Skip it if output cost is a constraint, if you need low latency, or if you want the option to run locally or switch providers freely.
The case for it
- One-million-token request limit, among the largest we track for long-document work.
- 42.4% on SWE-bench Verified, measuring end-to-end resolution of real GitHub issues.
- Identical pricing across its two listed providers, so there is no arbitrage hunt.
The case against it
- Output rate is five times the input rate, a steep premium on generation.
- 19.5 tokens per second on Bedrock is not competitive for latency-sensitive use.
- Proprietary weights with no disclosed licence and no open-weight fallback.
How good is it?
EverydayGeneral questions and everyday reasoning
Not yet scored on Arena Text (overall).
CodingWriting and fixing code on its own
Not yet scored on Arena Coding.
AgenticPlanning, calling tools, staying on task
Not yet scored on Arena Agent. It is on SWE-bench Verified, in 29th of 42 with 42.4.
WritingDrafting and rewriting prose
Not yet scored on Arena Creative Writing.
Every published score for this model1 scoreEvery figure we hold, from 1 board, with who ran it and a link to the source — including the boards no rating above is built on.
Where to rent it
Prices checked 2 hours ago — each listing carries its own date.
- per 1M tokens
- $2.50 in / $12.50 out
- Context served
- 1M
- Throughput
- Not measured
| Provider | In / out per 1M tokens | Context | Throughput | Trains on prompts | Logs prompts | Zero retention |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenRouterOpenRouter's own listing | $2.50 / $12.50checked 2 hours ago | 1M | not measured | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown |
| Amazon BedrockThrough OpenRouter | $2.50 / $12.50checked 2 hours ago | 1M32K max reply | not measured | No | No | Confirmed |
OpenRouterAcross the 2 listings we hold: 1 says it does not train on prompts, 0 say they do and 1 does not say. 1 appears in the zero-retention registry we check; the rest are unknown to us.
What each host's API supports
From the parameter list each endpoint publishes. Streaming is omitted: nothing we hold reports it, for any model.
| Provider | Tool calling | JSON output | Strict schema |
|---|---|---|---|
| OpenRouterOpenRouter's own listing | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Amazon BedrockThrough OpenRouter | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
Tool calling: 2 of 2 listings say yes. JSON output: 0 of 2 listings say yes, 2 say no. Strict schema: 0 of 2 listings say yes, 2 say no.
When we formed this view
Recent changes
What moved
first indexed by our pipelineEach date is the day we first saw the change, or the day the maker announced it.
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 2 listings does not say whether it trains on prompts.
- We don't hold a list price for this model yet — the gap is ours, not the lab's.
- We hold no batch or off-peak 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
We hold no licence record for this model, and no record of published weights either — so we can neither summarise its terms nor point you at the weights.
Identifiers
- Takes in, gives back
- Text and images in, text out
- Catalogue slug
- amazon-nova-premier-1-0