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Amazon Nova Micro

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Ultra-low-cost text-only model from Amazon.

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Budget

Not enough benchmark coverage yet for an Intelligence Index — needs at least 3 results across 2 categories.

Overview

Amazon Nova Micro is a text-only model optimized for the lowest possible latency and cost in the Amazon Bedrock Nova series.

History

Amazon Nova Micro was released on 2024-12-03.

Training & availability

Amazon (AWS) has not released the underlying model weights — access is via their hosted API only.

Capabilities

Context window: 128K tokens.
Max output: 5K tokens.
Input modalities: text.

Recommended for: cheap.

Limitations

Text-only — cannot process images, audio, or video inputs.

Pricing

Input: $0.0350 per 1M tokens
Output: $0.1400 per 1M tokens

Use the cost calculator above to estimate monthly spend for your workload.

Quick start

Minimal example using the OpenRouter API. Copy, paste, replace the key.

from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    base_url="https://openrouter.ai/api/v1",
    api_key="sk-or-...",
)
resp = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="amazon/amazon-nova-micro",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Explain quantum computing in one sentence."}],
)
print(resp.choices[0].message.content)

Cost calculator

Estimate your monthly bill. Presets are typical workload sizes.

Input tokens / month5.0M

@ $0.035/1M

Output tokens / month2.0M

@ $0.14/1M

Input cost

$0.175

5.0M × $0.035/1M

Output cost

$0.28

2.0M × $0.14/1M

Total / month

$0.455

$5.46 / year

Integrations & tooling support

Tool calling: Not supported
Structured outputs: Not supported

Price vs quality

Budget pricing

Priced low — good for high-volume tasks. Quality tier pending more benchmark coverage.