Amazon
Updated May 2026
Amazon Nova
AWS's house-brand frontier models
Amazon launched Nova in late 2024 — their first serious attempt at competing with OpenAI, Anthropic (in which they invested $8B), and Google on their own models. Nova models are optimized for Bedrock, AWS's managed AI platform, and priced aggressively. The pitch is simple: if you're already on AWS, you get strong frontier-class models without routing traffic to a third-party lab.
Variants
6
Best at
deeply integrated with AWS Bedrock
Max context
1M
tokens
Pricing
Nova Pro
$0.80 in / $3.20 out
per million tokens
Nova Lite
$0.06 in / $0.24 out
per million tokens
Nova Canvas
$0.04
per image
Variants
Sort the table by context window or cost to find the right variant. Click any version below for a battle card with ranks, pricing notes, and official links.
| Modalities | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
Nova Premier amazon.nova-premier-v1 | 1M | varies / varies | 2025 | textvisionvideo |
Nova Pro amazon.nova-pro-v1 | 300K | varies / varies | 2024 | textvisionvideo |
Nova Lite amazon.nova-lite-v1 | 300K | varies / varies | 2024 | textvision |
Nova Micro amazon.nova-micro-v1 | 128K | varies / varies | 2024 | text |
Nova Canvas nova-canvas | — | varies / varies | 2024 | image |
Nova Reel nova-reel | — | varies / varies | 2024 | video |
Battle card
Context rank
#2
within Amazon Nova
Capability rank
#2
modalities + reasoning
Weights
Closed
API/app access
Best fights to pick
- AWS-native production apps
- multimodal document processing
- cost-sensitive enterprise
Rankings are Tendril directory ranks, computed from the model data shown here. Public benchmark leaderboards change often, so official docs and current benchmark pages should be checked before buying or deploying.
Learn
Lessons about this model
Structured lessons that cover Amazon Nova directly or put it in context alongside its rivals.
Check yourself
Quizzes
Short, mixed-difficulty quiz sets on Amazon Nova and its model family.
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Try these prompts
Ready-made prompts that show Amazon Nova at its best. Use them in your own AI workspace, then compare the output with what you learned in Tendril.
Nova Lite for cost-sensitive summarization
BuildersAWS Bedrock's Nova Lite is aggressive on price-per-token — test on bulk summarization.
Summarize each of these 50 support tickets in one sentence. Include a label from this list at the end of each summary: [billing, bug, feature-request, how-to, other].
Nova Pro for multimodal receipt extraction
BuildersNova Pro handles images — common enterprise OCR workflow.
[Image: restaurant receipt] Extract merchant, date, line items with prices, subtotal, tax, tip, total. Return as JSON. Flag any fields that are illegible.
Nova Canvas for product imagery
CreatorsNova Canvas is Amazon's image generator — try it for on-brand product shots.
Studio product shot of a sleek coffee maker on a white seamless background, top-front angle, soft diffused light, no props. E-commerce listing style.
Print & keep
Printable reference
One-page summaries and flowcharts — great for desks, classrooms, or study sessions.
Go deeper
Official resources
Straight from the lab — docs, API references, and the chat surfaces you can try today.
Strengths
- deeply integrated with AWS Bedrock
- aggressive per-token pricing
- full multimodal (image, video, text)
Limits
- benchmarks below frontier labs
- only worth it if you're on AWS
- weaker ecosystem than Claude/GPT