Amazon Nova API Pricing (November 2026)
Amazon Nova API prices run from $0.30 to $2.50 per million tokens across 1 current model. The cheapest is Amazon Nova 2 Lite at $0.30 input and $2.50 output per million tokens. Every rate below was read on Amazon's own pricing page, on the date shown in its row.
| Model | Input /M | Cache read /M | Output /M | Batch in /M | Batch out /M | Context | Status | Checked |
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Amazon Nova 2 Lite amazon.nova-2-lite-v1:0 | $0.30 | $0.075−75% | $2.50 | $0.15 | $1.25 | 1M | Flagship | 2026-10-13 |
US dollars per million tokens, list rates on Amazon's own API. Cache read is the price of a cached input token. Batch is the asynchronous API, where the vendor offers one. The date in each row is when we last read it on the vendor's pricing page; it links to that page.
Amazon Nova API monthly cost estimates
What light use (10M input + 2M output tokens a month), medium use (100M input + 20M output tokens a month), heavy use (1B input + 200M output tokens a month) costs on each current model, at list price with no caching and no batch discount.
| Model | Input / output per 1M | Light · 10M + 2M | Medium · 100M + 20M | Heavy · 1B + 200M |
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| Amazon Nova 2 Lite | $0.30 / $2.50 | $8.00 | $80.00 | $800 |
Prompt caching and the Batch API cut these figures; the next sections show by how much. For your own token counts, use the LLM API cost calculator.
Amazon Nova API price changes and releases
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 a Global and a Geo cross-region inference profile, with Geo 10% above Global, plus Batch, Flex and Priority tiers.
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.
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.
GLM ARCHITECTZhipu (Z.ai / GLM)
The Beijing lab behind the GLM models, also operating internationally as Z.ai. Spun out of Tsinghua University in 2019, Zhipu ships strong coding/agentic models, multiple free tiers, and open weights — and was the first of China's "Six Tigers" to pursue an IPO. It also sits on the US Entity List.
Amazon Nova API pricing FAQ
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?
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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?
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Q · 03 Why are there two prices per model?
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$0.30/$2.50 and Geo is 10% higher on every line of the rate card. This page uses the global cross-region rate as the baseline. Q · 04 Does Amazon train on my Nova prompts?
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Q · 05 Is there a batch discount?
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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 by inference profile - Global cross-region, or Geo cross-region at 10% more - and offers Batch, Flex, Priority, 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.