Nova Premier
amazon/nova-premierAWS's top model: million-token multimodal capability with Bedrock-native governance.
Model overview
Context window
1M
tokens
Input price
—
quoted on request
Output price
—
quoted on request
Weekly volume
—
tokens / week
Open weights
No
API only
Capabilities
5
of 11 tags
Description
Nova Premier is a language model from Amazon. Webparam does not stock this model yet and can source it on request — tell us what you need it for and we will come back with availability and a price. Amazon’s stated focus is price-performance models across modalities. The weights are not published, so it is API-only.
Capabilities
- Tool calling
- Calls functions you define and returns their arguments as structured data, the basis of agents.
- JSON mode
- Constrains the response to valid JSON matching a schema you supply.
- Streaming
- Emits tokens as they are generated, so answers appear progressively rather than all at once.
- Vision input
- Accepts images alongside text in the prompt.
- Long context
- Built for inputs well beyond the mainstream window, whole repositories, archives or corpora.
Strengths & weaknesses
Strengths
- Deep AWS integration
- 1M multimodal context
- Predictable enterprise contracts
Weaknesses
- Peak quality trails the top three
- Best economics require AWS commitment
Pricing
| Rate | Price | Unit |
|---|---|---|
| Input | — quoted on request | — |
| Output | — quoted on request | — |
This model is not provisioned yet; the rate is quoted on request.
Context window
1Mtokens
covers prompt and response together, so a long input leaves less room for the answer.
Supported features
| Feature | Support |
|---|---|
| Tool calling | Supported |
| JSON mode | Supported |
| Streaming | Supported |
| Vision input | Supported |
| Audio input | Not supported |
| Long context | Supported |
| Open weights | Not supported |
| Reasoning | Not supported |
| Fine-tunable | Not supported |
| Batch | Not supported |
| Caching | Not supported |
Example use cases
AWS-native products
Enterprise assistants
Long-context analysis
Related models
Comparison
Compare against anything →| Attribute | Nova Premier | Gemini 3 Pro | Command A |
|---|---|---|---|
| Context window | 1M | 1M | 256K |
| Input price | R0.00 | R0.00 | R0.00 |
| Output price | — not charged | — not charged | — not charged |
| Tool calling | Supported | Supported | Supported |
| JSON mode | Supported | Supported | Supported |
| Vision input | Supported | Supported | Not supported |
| Open weights | Not supported | Not supported | Not supported |
| Prompt caching | Not supported | Not supported | Not supported |
Best value in each row is highlighted. Blank cells are facts the supplier does not publish, not zeroes.
Provider information
View Amazon →Amazon · Seattle, United States · est. 1994 (Nova model line from 2024)
Amazon's Nova family targets the price-performance frontier, capable models priced for the high-volume workloads AWS customers actually run. Tight Bedrock integration and predictable enterprise contracts make Nova the pragmatic default for teams already on AWS.
Recent releases
Documentation
Frequently asked questions
Input is billed at R0.00 per 1M tokens, and there is no separate output charge. Every figure on this page is an illustrative placeholder.
No. Nova Premier is served through its provider's API only; the weights are not published, so self-hosting is not an option.
Prompt and response share one window: Nova Premier accepts up to 1M tokens in total, so a long input leaves less room for the answer. The median across language models is 256K. It carries the long-context tag, meaning it is built for inputs well beyond the mainstream window.
Gemini 3 Pro is the closest neighbour in the catalogue, with 1M of context at R0.00 per 1M tokens in. Put both in a comparison before wiring a fallback chain, so the trade-off is a decision rather than a default.