Amazon Nova API Pricing
Amazon Nova is the family of first-party foundation models built by Amazon and served on Amazon Bedrock. The current Nova 2 generation replaced the original Nova Micro/Lite/Pro/Premier lineup, led by Nova 2 Lite at a 1M-token context window with on-demand per-token pricing.
| Model | Input /M | Output /M | Cached | Context | Max output | Vision | Tools | Tier |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amazon Nova 2 Lite FLAGSHIP | $0.3 | $2.50 | — | 1M | — | ✓ | ✓ | Active |
The Amazon Nova story so far.
Releases and pricing from Amazon's first-party model line on Bedrock. Sourced from AWS press, the AWS News blog, and the Bedrock pricing page - verified at publication.
Nova models are served through Amazon Bedrock, AWS's managed model API. On-demand per-token billing, plus Batch (-50%), provisioned throughput, and reserved tiers.
PRICINGAmazon publishes Nova per-token rates on the Bedrock pricing page, split into global cross-region and single-region (Geo) inference, with the global route about 1.75x cheaper.
SELF-SERVECall Nova via the Converse and InvokeModel APIs in the AWS SDKs, or through Bedrock-compatible frameworks. Standard AWS IAM, regions, and data-residency controls apply.
Amazon was founded by Jeff Bezos in 1994 and is headquartered in Seattle. Its cloud division, Amazon Web Services (AWS), is the largest cloud provider and the home of Amazon's generative-AI stack.
Amazon introduced its own Amazon Nova foundation models at re:Invent in December 2024, initially as Micro, Lite, Pro and Premier. In December 2025 Amazon shipped the Nova 2 generation, led by Nova 2 Lite (generally available) with Nova 2 Pro and Nova 2 Omni in preview.
Nova models are served exclusively through Amazon Bedrock, where they are billed per token on demand. Amazon prices Nova with a split between global cross-region inference and single-region (Geo) inference, and offers Batch, provisioned-throughput and reserved options. Amazon states it does not train on customer prompts submitted through Bedrock.
Amazon also invests heavily in Anthropic and hosts third-party frontier models on Bedrock, so Nova sits alongside Claude, Llama, Mistral and others in Amazon's catalogue rather than as its only option.
Google (Gemini)
Gemini on Vertex AI is the closest cloud-native rival with strong multimodal and long context, but Google's own models are pricier at the Pro tier than Nova 2 Lite.
PARTNER + RIVALAnthropic (Claude)
Claude is Amazon's flagship third-party model on Bedrock and an Amazon investment, far stronger on frontier coding but many times more expensive than Nova 2 Lite.
FRONTIEROpenAI
OpenAI leads brand demand and frontier quality, but is not first-party on Bedrock; Nova competes on price and native AWS integration rather than raw capability.
COST DISRUPTORDeepSeek
DeepSeek undercuts nearly everyone on raw token price, but Nova offers managed AWS hosting, data residency and multimodal input that a low-cost API does not.
OPEN-WEIGHT GIANTAlibaba (Qwen)
The Qwen (Tongyi Qianwen) model family from Alibaba Cloud's Tongyi Lab. First released in 2023, Qwen is the most-downloaded open-weight model family in the world — most tiers ship under Apache 2.0 on Hugging Face and ModelScope, while the proprietary Max tier is served through Alibaba Cloud's Model Studio.
CHINA CONSUMER LEADERByteDance (Doubao)
The Doubao model family from ByteDance — parent of TikTok and Douyin. Served through the Volcano Ark (火山方舟) platform on ByteDance's Volcano Engine cloud, Doubao powers China's most-used consumer AI app and undercuts most frontier labs on price.
Amazon Nova pricing questions.
Practical questions about Amazon Nova API pricing on Bedrock, with the published per-token rates kept separate from workload assumptions.
Q · 01 How much does the Amazon Nova API cost? +
Nova 2 Lite is $0.30/M input and $2.50/M output using global cross-region inference. Nova 2 Pro (preview) is $1.25/$10 and Nova 2 Omni (preview) is $0.30/$2.50 for text. Verified on the Bedrock pricing page 2026-07-11.Q · 02 What happened to Nova Micro, Lite, Pro and Premier? +
Q · 03 Why are there two prices per model? +
$0.30/$2.50 while in-region is roughly $0.525/$4.375 - about 1.75x higher. This page uses the global cross-region rate as the baseline.