Nova Premier 1.0
Amazon Nova Premier is the most capable of Amazon’s multimodal models for complex reasoning tasks and for use as the best teacher for distilling custom models.
Specifications
| Lab | Amazon |
|---|---|
| Context window | 1M tokens |
| Input price | $2.50/1M |
| Output price | $12.50/1M |
| Release | Oct 2025 |
Strengths
- Amazon"s most capable multimodal model for complex reasoning
- 1M token context window for long-document tasks
- Strong teacher model for distilling custom models
- Solid text, image, and video understanding
Weaknesses
- Priced at flagship tier without proven flagship performance
- Limited third-party benchmark data available
- Smaller ecosystem than OpenAI/Anthropic alternatives
Best for
- Complex reasoning and analysis tasks
- Custom model distillation and fine-tuning
- Enterprise AWS-integrated workflows
- Multimodal document and video understanding
In Depth: Nova Premier 1.0
Summary
Nova Premier 1.0 is an AI model from Amazon.
Released in Oct 2025. It currently appears in the Overall category on LMRank. It takes text and image input and produces text output, with a context window of 1M tokens. Input pricing is $2.50 per 1M tokens and output is $12.50 per 1M tokens on OpenRouter.