Nova Pro
Amazon's top-tier multimodal workhorse on Bedrock, tuned for enterprise agents, document understanding, and tool use at a price point well below the frontier labs.
At a glance
Released
Apr 22, 2026
Provider
Amazon
Context window
300,000 tokens
Max output
32,000 tokens
Modalities
Text + image + video + document → text
Knowledge cutoff
February 2026
API model ID
nova-pro-v1License
Proprietary (API-only via AWS Bedrock)
Pricing
Standard
Input$0.80 / 1M
Output$3.20 / 1M
Batch (50% off)
Input$0.40 / 1M
Output$1.60 / 1M
A typical 1,500-token prompt with a 650-token answer costs ≈ $0.003 on the standard tier. Run your own prompt through the calculator →
What's new vs the previous model
Compared withNova Pro (2024) (December 2024)
- Stronger multi-step tool use and agent orchestration
- Wider context and better video grounding
- Output cap unchanged from the prior generation despite the larger context
Best use cases
Enterprise agents
Drives long-running Bedrock agent workflows with reliable function calling across business systems.
Document intelligence
Extracts and summarizes structured data from contracts, invoices, and multi-page reports.
Multimodal analytics
Reads charts, screenshots, and short video clips to answer operational questions.
Strengths & limitations
Strengths
- Deep AWS and Bedrock integration
- Strong price-to-capability ratio
- Reliable tool use
Limitations
- API-only, no weights
- Trails the very top frontier models on hardest reasoning
How to test it
- No-code: open the Amazon Bedrock console and run a prompt in the playground.
- API: create a key in the Amazon Bedrock console and call the API (example below).
aws bedrock-runtime converse \
--model-id nova-pro-v1 \
--messages '[{"role": "user", "content": [{"text": "Explain tokenization in one paragraph."}]}]'