Amazon Nova Premier
Amazon Nova Premier is worth evaluating for rag, agents, and long context when its provider route and context window match the workload.
Use it for
- Teams evaluating rag, agents, and long context
- Workloads that can use a 1m context window
- Buyers comparing 2 tracked provider routes
Do not use it for
- Workloads where another current model has stronger sourced task evidence
- Family
- Nova
- Released
- 2025-03-17
- Context
- 1m
- Max output
- 25,000
- Architecture
- Decoder Only
- Specialization
- general
- Openness
- Proprietary
- License
- ProprietaryCommercial use: conditional
- Weights
- Not released
- Code
- Unknown
- Training
- Fine-tuned
Cheapest of 2 routes · AWS Bedrock · cache read $0.625
About
Amazon Nova Premier is Amazon's most capable standard Bedrock Nova understanding model for complex reasoning, agentic workflows, and model distillation. It supports a 1M-token context window, text/image/video inputs, text output, reasoning, tool calling, and prompt caching; use it as the standard Bedrock Nova frontier pick instead of Nova 2 Omni early-access Forge checkpoints.
Top use-case fit: coding, agents, and build tasks
RAG
Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.
Agents
Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.
Long context
Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.
Provider price ladder
Compare all 2Compare API pricing across 2 providers for input and output tokens, batch, and cached reads when available.
| Provider | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Batch in / out | Cache | Route |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AWS Bedrock | $2.50 | $12.50 | $1.25 / $6.25 | read $0.625 | Serverless |
| OpenRouter | $2.50 | $12.50 | - | - | Serverless |
Available via routers & gateways(1)
Capabilities
Benchmark peer barsfor RAG
No task-mapped benchmark peers are available for this model yet.
Migration checks
No linked migration route is available for this model yet.
Cheapest of 2 routes · AWS Bedrock · cache read $0.625