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title: "Nova Micro — LLM-TEST.com"
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language: en
type: model
summary: "The smallest, cheapest text-only Nova, built for ultra-high-throughput tasks and latency-sensitive routing."
last_updated: "2026-11-05"
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# Nova Micro

_Amazon · Budget_

The smallest, cheapest text-only Nova, built for ultra-high-throughput tasks and latency-sensitive routing.

## At a glance

- Released: Apr 22, 2026
- Provider: Amazon
- Context window: 128,000 tokens
- Max output: 8,000 tokens
- Modalities: Text → text
- Knowledge cutoff: February 2026
- API model ID: `nova-micro-v1`
- License: Proprietary (API-only via AWS Bedrock)

## Pricing

- Standard: $0.035 input / $0.14 output per 1M tokens
- Batch: $0.0175 input / $0.07 output per 1M tokens
- Example: a 1,500-token prompt + 650-token answer ≈ $0.0001 (standard)

## What's new vs Nova Micro (2024) (December 2024)

- Improved short-form accuracy and lower latency
- Cheaper per token than the prior generation
- Dropped any multimodal pretense; strictly text

## Best use cases

- **Request routing** — Classifies and dispatches traffic to larger models in a cascade.
- **Lightweight extraction** — Pulls fields and entities from short text at massive scale.
- **Guardrails** — Runs cheap pre- and post-filters around heavier pipelines.

## Strengths

- Rock-bottom cost
- Extremely fast
- Simple to deploy on Bedrock

## Limitations

- Text only
- Shallow on multi-step reasoning

## Where to get access

- API: the Amazon Bedrock console — https://console.aws.amazon.com/bedrock
- Also available: Amazon Bedrock only
- Docs: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/bedrock

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