Nova Micro 1.0
Amazon Nova Micro 1.0 is a text-only model with 128K context, very low latency, and support for summarization, translation, interactive chat, and tool use.
Model Overview
Capabilities, design details, and architectural traits
Nova Micro 1.0 - Text-only low-latency model
Nova Micro 1.0 is Amazon’s smallest Nova model, positioned for ultra-low-latency text inference.
Defining Characteristics
- Text-only model: The model is documented as text in, text out, rather than multimodal.
- 128K-token context window: AWS and provider listings specify a 128k-token context length.
- Lowest latency in the Nova family: Amazon positions Nova Micro as the lowest-latency member of the Nova family.
- Lightweight task fit: Official and provider descriptions call out summarization, translation, content classification, interactive chat, and brainstorming as suitable uses.
Core Design
- The model is tuned for text inference and is not intended for reasoning-heavy or multimodal tasks.
- Some documentation mentions basic mathematical reasoning and coding abilities, but not as the model’s main focus.
Benchmark Performance
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Accuracy & Capability Details
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| Model Details | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| General Info | |||
| Provider | Amazon | Anthropic | Anthropic |
| Release Date | December 3, 2024 | September 22, 2026 | September 28, 2026 |
| Knowledge Cutoff | Oct 2024 | - | Jun 2026 |
| Context & Limits | |||
| Context Window | 128K | 1M Best Context Window | 1M Best Context Window |
| Pricing (per 1M tokens) | |||
| Input Pricing | $0.04 Best Input Pricing | $4 | $2 |
| Output Pricing | $0.14 Best Output Pricing | $20 | $10 |
| Modalities | |||
| Inputs | text | textimagefile | textimagefile |
| Outputs | text | text | text |
| Benchmarks (0-100) | |||
| Intelligence Index | 5.9 | 57.6 Best Intelligence Index | 56.0 |
| Coding Index | - | - | - |
| Agentic Index | - | - | - |
Humanity's Last Exam
Extremely difficult logical reasoning and knowledge.
Long Context Reasoning
Logical reasoning over long context windows.
SciCode Benchmark
Scientific coding and mathematical modeling.
Independent evaluation data provided by Artificial Analysis. To view the latest benchmarks and full details, visit their official site.
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