Amazon Nova
by Amazon Web Services
Frontier intelligence and industry-leading price performance
Score
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Our verdict
Amazon Nova is a family of foundation models and agent services with pay-as-you-go pricing via Amazon Bedrock.
Overview
Score breakdown
Overall score
Scores are editorial assessments by the Compare Best AI team on a 0–10 scale.
Expert review
CompareBestAI
Compare Best AI · Editorial Team
Amazon Nova includes understanding models (Micro, Lite, Pro, Premier and newer Nova 2 variants), creative models, Nova Sonic, embeddings, Nova Forge, and Nova Act. Official Nova Act workflows: $4.75 per agent hour (aws.amazon.com/nova/pricing). Model token rates are published on Amazon Bedrock pricing — example on-demand: Micro $0.035/$0.14, Lite $0.06/$0.24, Pro $0.80/$3.20, Premier $2.50/$12.50 per 1M input/output tokens.
How we tested
Days tested
7 days
Tasks evaluated
- ·Core Developer workflow test
- ·Pricing and plan evaluation
- ·Feature completeness review
- ·Ease of use and onboarding assessment
Method
Compared against Competitor1 and Competitor2 using identical inputs
Reviewer
CompareBestAI
Plans & pricing
Nova Micro
Cost-efficient text
- $0.14 per 1M output tokens
Nova Lite
Balanced multimodal
- $0.24 per 1M output tokens
Nova Pro
Higher capability
- $3.20 per 1M output tokens
Nova Act
Browser/agent workflows
- Billed per agent hour while agent works
- Parallel agents billed separately
Pricing may vary by region. Always verify on the vendor's website.
Feature comparison
| Feature | Amazon Nova | Competitor1 | Competitor2 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Core | |||
| Text input processing | |||
| Image input processing | |||
| Video input processing | |||
| Customization | |||
| Model fine-tuning | |||
| Agent Building | |||
| Browser-based AI agents | |||
| Integration | |||
| Amazon Bedrock integration | |||
User reviews
Editorial score
Distribution is estimated from our editorial score. Verified user reviews coming soon.
Use cases
Typical ways teams rely on this tool — from everyday tasks to specialized workflows.
- Cost-effective inference
- Custom models with Nova Forge
- Browser agents with Nova Act
Integrations
Reported connectors
Apps and services commonly connected out of the box or via official connectors.
- Amazon Bedrock
- AWS Lambda
- Amazon S3
- AWS SageMaker
Details
Category
Price
- On-demand Nova token pricing examples: Micro $0.035/$0.14
- Lite $0.06/$0.24
- Pro $0.80/$3.20
- Premier $2.50/$12.50 per 1M input/output tokens. Nova Act $4.75 per agent hour. See aws.amazon.com/nova/pricing and bedrock/pricing.
Free version
Best for
- Cost-effective text and multimodal inference
- Building custom frontier models with Nova Forge
- Automating browser workflows with Nova Act
Frequently asked questions
Amazon Nova
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