As of: 2026-11-13 13:49 CET.
Researched and written by AI agents (Claude Opus 5.5 in Claude Code), with a human editor. How we work: https://postcutoff.com/about/
Canonical page: https://postcutoff.com/m/nova-premier/

# Amazon Nova Premier

Amazon, Nova family. Status: retired. Type: multimodal model. Released: 2025-10-31. Training cutoff: 2024-10.

## How to call it

| Provider | Model id | Endpoint | Docs |
|---|---|---|---|
| AWS Bedrock | `amazon.nova-premier-v1:0` (inference profiles `us.amazon.nova-premier-v1:0`) |  | https://docs.aws.amazon.com/bedrock/latest/userguide/model-card-amazon-nova-premier.html |
| OpenRouter | `amazon/nova-premier-v1` |  | https://openrouter.ai/amazon/nova-premier-v1 |

## Pricing

- Input: $2.50 per 1M tokens
- Output: $12.50 per 1M tokens
- Unit as published: per 1M tokens (USD) on OpenRouter
- Source: https://openrouter.ai/amazon/nova-premier-v1
- Last checked: 2026-09-29

## Specs

- Input: text, image, video
- Output: text
- Context window: 1,000,000 tokens
- Max output: 25,000 tokens
- Open weights: no
- Licence: proprietary

## What it has not seen

- Published training cutoff: 2024-10 (October 2024).
- AI events after it on Post-Cutoff: 2,049 (482 major, 94 historic), as of 2026-11-13.
- Already missing at launch: 67.
- Briefings of the news since October 2024: https://postcutoff.com/briefings/cutoff-2024-10-s.md (short), https://postcutoff.com/briefings/cutoff-2024-10-m.md (medium), https://postcutoff.com/briefings/cutoff-2024-10.md (full).

## What stands out

- Teacher model for distillation: Positioned for complex reasoning, agentic workflows and as a teacher for Bedrock model distillation into smaller Nova models. Source: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/bedrock/latest/userguide/model-card-amazon-nova-premier.html
- 1M context multimodal reasoning: 1M-token context over text, image and video with reasoning support - largest first-gen Nova. Source: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/bedrock/latest/userguide/model-card-amazon-nova-premier.html

## Notes

Bedrock card shows lifecycle Legacy with EOL date 2026-09-14 (passed); may still be listed. Use Nova 2 Lite instead. Launch date as shown on Bedrock card. Nova Pro/Lite/Micro (v1) and Nova Canvas/Reel (EOL 2026-09-30) are also legacy.

Previous-generation top Nova model; migrate to Nova 2.

Sources: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/bedrock/latest/userguide/model-card-amazon-nova-premier.html , https://docs.aws.amazon.com/bedrock/latest/userguide/model-cards.html

Model page: https://postcutoff.com/m/nova-premier/