How much does Nova Premier 1.0 cost per million tokens?

Nova Premier 1.0 costs $2.50 per million input tokens and $12.50 per million output tokens at list price, and $0.625 per million cached input tokens.

What is the context window of Nova Premier 1.0?

Nova Premier 1.0 accepts up to 1,000,000 tokens of context and returns up to 32,000 output tokens.

How much do 1,000 chat messages cost with Nova Premier 1.0?

About $8.75, assuming 1,000 input + 500 output tokens per message.

Is there a cheaper alternative to Nova Premier 1.0?

In the same price range, OpenAI GPT-6.1 Sol Pro ($2 / $10), OpenAI GPT-6.1 Sol ($2 / $10), Anthropic Claude Sonnet 5.5 ($2 / $10) cost less per token. Quality differs: test on your own prompts.

Where can I buy Amazon API credits for less?

Discount credit books resell OpenRouter usage below face value within their depth, OpenRouter adds a 5.5% card fee, and Amazon sells its own credits at face value. The live table on this page ranks them for $100 of usage.

Amazon · live price

Nova Premier 1.0 API pricing

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.

Frontier (blended $5+ per 1M)Tool callingimage input

Input: $2.50; per 1M tokens
Output: $12.50; per 1M tokens
Cached input: $0.625; per 1M tokens
Context: 1M; 32K max output

List price from OpenRouter, which passes Amazon's price through without markup. Refreshed hourly. Released October 31, 2025. Model id amazon/nova-premier-v1.

What Nova Premier 1.0 costs in practice

At list price, before any batch or caching discount.

1,000 chat messages

$8.75

1,000 input + 500 output tokens each

1,000 RAG questions

$26.25

8,000 input + 500 output tokens each

100 coding-agent steps

$10.00

30,000 input + 2,000 output tokens each, no caching

Nova Premier 1.0 price history

No price change since we started tracking on 2026-10-01. We record prices daily; changes will show here.

Nova Premier 1.0 price by host

One host serves this model through OpenRouter.

Amazon Bedrock$2.50 in · $12.50 out · 1M ctx

Where to buy Amazon credits for less

Nova Premier 1.0 costs the same per token everywhere it's sold through OpenRouter. What changes is the price of the credits. Live quotes for $100 of usage:

#	Where you buy	You payYou pay for $100.00 of usage	vs list price	Price source
1	OrbioCardCheapest right now Credits from a discount book, plus a 5% platform fee and card processing, both included in the quote.	$85.10 incl. $2.60 card processing	-14.9%	live quote
2	smaaartCard Credits from a discount book, plus a 5% platform fee on face value. Card processing and taxes shown at checkout.	$95.00 + card processing and tax at checkout (not in this number)	-5.0%	live quote
3	Direct from the labCard Prepaid credits at face value (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google…). Taxes may apply.	$100.00 no top-up fee	list price	face value
4	OpenRouterCrypto 5% on crypto purchases. No markup on model prices.	$105.00 fees included	+5.0%	published fee
5	OpenRouterCard 5.5% on card purchases, $0.80 minimum. No markup on model prices.	$105.50 fees included	+5.5%	published fee

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Nova Premier 1.0 cost calculator

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Model$2.50 in / $12.50 out per 1M tokens · list price, liveInput tokens / month (millions)Output tokens / month (millions)

Usage at list price$250.00/ month

Cheaper alternatives to Nova Premier 1.0

Other labs' models in the same price range or the one below, cheaper per token.

Model	Input / 1M	Output / 1M	Blended 3:1	Context
OpenAI: GPT-6.1 Sol Pro	$2	$10	$4	1.1M
OpenAI: GPT-6.1 Sol	$2	$10	$4	1.1M
Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 5.5	$2	$10	$4	1M
Z.ai: GLM 5.3 Prime	$2.80	$8.80	$4.30	1M
OpenAI: GPT-6 Sol Pro	$2	$10	$4	1.1M
OpenAI: GPT-6 Sol	$2	$10	$4	1.1M

Other Amazon models

Model	Input / 1M	Output / 1M	Blended 3:1	Context
Nova 2 Lite	$0.3	$2.50	$0.85	1M
Nova Lite 1.0	$0.06	$0.24	$0.105	300K
Nova Micro 1.0	$0.035	$0.14	$0.061	128K
Nova Pro 1.0	$0.8	$3.20	$1.40	300K

All Amazon API prices