Nova Premier 1.0
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Amazon | 1,000,000 token context | $2.50/M input, $12.50/M output. Amazon Nova Premier is the most capable of Amazon’s multimodal models for complex reasoning tasks and for use as the best teacher for distilling custom models.
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Captain's notes
Notes from 2026-10-13
Nova Premier 1.0 is Amazon's most capable multimodal model, handling text and vision tasks across a one-million-token context window. Its stated design purpose includes acting as a teacher model for distilling smaller custom models, which is an unusual explicit use case for a frontier API product. It suits teams doing complex reasoning work inside the AWS ecosystem or building distillation pipelines.
Known for
- One-million-token context window for very long documents or codebases
- Multimodal: accepts both text and image inputs
- Amazon's top-tier model for complex reasoning tasks
- Explicitly designed as a teacher for custom model distillation
Watch out for
- API-only, closed weights — no local deployment, no self-hosting
- Output pricing at $12.50 per million tokens adds up fast on long generations
- Amazon has not published benchmark details or model size
Prompts to try
Reason through a multi-step plan
A logistics company runs 12 warehouses across three time zones. They want to consolidate to 8 warehouses while keeping next-day delivery to 95% of current customers and reducing total operating cost. Walk through the key trade-offs, the data you would need, and a phased decision framework for choosing which sites to close.
Analyse an uploaded document
I'm attaching a long contract. Identify every clause that creates an ongoing financial obligation for the buyer, summarise each one in plain language, flag any that are unusual or one-sided, and list them in order of potential financial exposure.
Distillation dataset generation
Generate 10 high-quality question-and-answer training pairs for a smaller model being fine-tuned to handle customer support queries about cloud billing. Each pair should demonstrate careful reasoning, accurate terminology, and a tone that is helpful but concise. Include one example where the correct answer is to escalate rather than resolve.
Compare with
- Nova 2 LiteAPI-only model1,000,000 token context · $0.30/M input, $2.50/M output
- DeepSeek V4.1 FlashOpen-weights model1,048,576 token context · $0.04/M input, $0.68/M output
- GLM 5.3 FlashOpen-weights model1,048,576 token context · $0.02/M input, $0.72/M output
- MiMo-V2.6-FlashOpen-weights model1,050,000 token context · $0.14/M input, $0.28/M output
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Questions people ask
- Can I run Nova Premier locally?
- No. Nova Premier is API-only with no open weights and no Hugging Face repository, so local deployment is not possible.
- What does Nova Premier cost and how long is its context?
- Amazon charges $2.50 per million input tokens and $12.50 per million output tokens, with a one-million-token context window.
- How does Nova Premier differ from other Amazon Nova models?
- Amazon positions it as the most capable model in the Nova family, aimed at complex reasoning and as a teacher for distilling custom smaller models — a role the other Nova models are not explicitly designed for.
Captain's verdictA serious long-context reasoning and vision model with a clear distillation use case, but the output price demands you think before you generate.
Captain writes these notes from the model's own description and model card. Prices and context sizes are the provider's at the time of writing and can change.
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