Using Amazon Nova 2.5 Sonic on AWS Bedrock
Implementation guide · Nova · Amazon Web Services (AWS) AI
AWS Bedrock exposes Amazon Nova 2.5 Sonic through model ID nova-2-5-sonic. Use the setup steps, sourced pricing, capabilities, and official provider links below to validate this route before deployment.
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Quick Start
- 1
- 2Use the AWS Bedrock SDK or REST API to call
nova-2-5-sonic— see the documentation for request format.
Code Examples
pip install boto3AWS_ACCESS_KEY_IDnova-2-5-sonicUse Amazon Bedrock model IDs, e.g. "anthropic.claude-3-opus-20240229-v1:0" for on-demand, or cross-region inference profile IDs like "us.anthropic.claude-opus-4-7-20251101-v1:0". These differ from the public model slug.
import boto3
# Reads AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID, AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY, AWS_DEFAULT_REGION from env
client = boto3.client("bedrock-runtime", region_name="us-east-1")
response = client.converse(
modelId="nova-2-5-sonic",
messages=[{
"role": "user",
"content": [{"text": "Hello"}]
}]
)
print(response["output"]["message"]["content"][0]["text"])Pricing on AWS Bedrock
| Type | Price (per 1M) |
|---|---|
| Audio input | $1.00 |
Capabilities
About Amazon Nova 2.5 Sonic
Amazon Nova 2.5 Sonic is Amazon's speech-to-speech model for real-time voice agents, generally available on Amazon Bedrock from 5 October 2026. It improves reasoning, instruction following and tool-calling accuracy over Nova 2 Sonic, with lower latency, seven languages, voice and text in one session, asynchronous tool calling and a 256K context window.