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Amazon Nova Micro

Amazon's text-only ultra-cheap tier, best for high-volume routing and classification.

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Quick facts

Released
Dec 2024
Context
128K tokens
Output / 1M
$0.14 / 1M tokens
License
Proprietary

About Amazon Nova Micro

Nova Micro is the smallest of the Nova family, text-only and priced for high-volume routing or classification workloads where almost any cost is rounded up. At $0.035 / 1M input tokens, it's one of the cheapest first-party models in any cloud.

For AWS customers running large-scale classification or routing pipelines, Nova Micro is the right default tier.

Benchmarks

Published scores from Other's model card or independent leaderboards. We do not publish numbers we cannot source, see methodology.

HumanEval
,
Python coding pass@1
MMLU
,
Broad academic knowledge
GPQA
,
Graduate-level reasoning
SWE-bench
,
Real software-engineering tasks
Benchmark scores not yet available. We only publish numbers we can source from official model cards or independent leaderboards, see methodology.

Capabilities

Strengths

  • Lowest-cost frontier-lab model
  • Native AWS integration
  • Generous 128k context for the price tier

Tracked weaknesses

  • AWS-only
  • Text-only

Pricing

Per-million-token rates as published by Other.

TierPriceNotes
Input$0.035 / 1M tokensTokens you send to the model
Output$0.14 / 1M tokensTokens the model generates
Context128K tokensMax combined input + output

Call Amazon Nova Micro from your code

Drop-in snippet for the Other SDK. Set your API key in the environment and run.

typescript
import OpenAI from "openai";

const client = new OpenAI({
  // Use OPENAI_API_KEY for OpenAI, or your provider's key + baseURL.
  apiKey: process.env.OPENAI_API_KEY,
});

const completion = await client.chat.completions.create({
  model: "nova-micro",
  messages: [
    { role: "user", content: "What's the time complexity of quicksort?" },
  ],
});

console.log(completion.choices[0].message.content);

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Frequently asked

  • How much does Amazon Nova Micro cost per million tokens?
    Amazon Nova Micro is priced at $0.035 / 1M tokens for input tokens and $0.14 / 1M tokens for output tokens via the official Other API at the time of writing.
  • What is Amazon Nova Micro's context window?
    Amazon Nova Micro supports a context window of 128K tokens.
  • Is Amazon Nova Micro open source?
    No. Amazon Nova Micro is a closed-weight model, you can use it via Other's API but the model weights are not publicly downloadable.
  • When was Amazon Nova Micro released?
    Amazon Nova Micro was released on Dec 3, 2024 by Other.
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