Nova Premier 1.0 API Pricing
Amazon · context window 1M · prices updated 2026-09-15
Where Nova Premier 1.0 sits on price
At $12.50 per million output tokens, Nova Premier 1.0 is a premium tier model — 6.0× the median output price of $2.08, which puts it cheaper than 16% and pricier than 84% of the models we track. It is the most expensive of the 5 Amazon models we track. Output costs 5.0× input, the usual spread — trim both, starting with the answer length.
Cached input is 75% cheaper. On an input-heavy workload you need roughly a 33% cache-hit rate to take 25% off the input line — reachable for chatbots and agents that resend the same system prompt and history.
What real workloads cost on Nova Premier 1.0
These three workloads are the ones teams actually run on a premium-priced model — a $12.50/1M model is not bought for the same job as one ten times the price.
| Workload | Per request | Per month |
|---|---|---|
| Support chatbot — 500 conversations/day (5K in / 1.4K out) Conversation history re-sent each turn — the classic prompt-caching win. | $0.03 | $450 |
| Coding agent — 300 sessions/day (60K in / 12K out) Multi-step loops re-read the same files; caching matters more than raw price. | $0.3 | $2700 |
| Long-context analysis — 200 runs/day (250K in / 4K out) Only possible on large-context models; input cost is nearly the whole bill. | $0.675 | $4050 |
Model your exact traffic in the API cost calculator — it preloads Nova Premier 1.0 with caching and batch options.
Nova Premier 1.0 price history
Nova Premier 1.0's price has not moved since we began tracking it on Aug 2, 2026 — 44 days of stability in a market where 78 of the 334 models we track have repriced over the same period. Amazon's lineup has held steady across the board.
Change-points from our daily price snapshots (tracking since Aug 2, 2026; intraday moves between snapshots are not captured).
Nova Premier 1.0 vs Claude Opus 5 (batch)
The closest-priced alternative from another vendor is Claude Opus 5 (batch) (Anthropic) — priced within a rounding error on output, with identical input pricing. When two models land this close on price, the decision is quality on your own workload, not the price sheet: run 50 real requests through both and compare.
See Claude Opus 5 (batch) pricing →Cheaper alternatives
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Frequently asked questions
› How much does the Nova Premier 1.0 API cost?
Nova Premier 1.0 costs $2.50 per million input tokens and $12.50 per million output tokens, with cached input at $0.625 per million (75% cheaper). That works out to roughly 80,000 output tokens per dollar.
› What does the support chatbot workload cost on Nova Premier 1.0?
Support chatbot — 500 conversations/day (5K in / 1.4K out) costs about $0.03 per request and $450 per month on Nova Premier 1.0. Conversation history re-sent each turn — the classic prompt-caching win.
› What does it cost to fill Nova Premier 1.0's 1M context window?
Sending 1M of input in a single request costs $2.50 at $2.50 per million tokens — before any output. With prompt caching that same fill drops to about $0.625 on repeat requests. This is why large context windows are cheap to advertise and expensive to actually use.
› Is Nova Premier 1.0 worth the price?
Nova Premier 1.0 sits in the middle of the market (5 of 5 by price within Amazon). The honest test is a routing experiment: send the same 200 real requests to this model and to a tier below, and compare failure rate against the price gap — most teams find a majority of traffic never needed the pricier model.