AmazonReleased 5 Dec 2024

Nova Micro 1.0 benchmarks, speed and API pricing

Reviewed by LLM Verifications team · Tested 26 Oct 2026

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Amazon Bedrock$0.035 in · $0.14 out

Intelligence22.5% correct#70 of 72

Speed180tok/s#9 of 72

Cost$0.000087per question#4 of 72List $0.035 in · $0.14 out per 1M

Verbosity545tokens per question#16 of 72

Summary

Answers 18 of 80 verification questions correctly (22.5%), placing #70 of 72 models tested on the current suite.
Generates 180 output tokens per second, faster than 89% of the models we measure.
Starts responding after 0.5 s (median time to first token).
Costs $0.000087 per question as billed, #4 cheapest of 12 models priced under $0.15 per 1M tokens.

Specifications

Reasoning: No
Input: text
Output: text
Context window: 128k tokens
Weights: —
Knowledge cutoff: 31 Oct 2024
OpenRouter ID: amazon/nova-micro-v1
Last tested: 26 Oct 2026

Peer group: 13 models with a blended list price under $0.15 per 1M tokens (3 input : 1 output). Charts below compare Nova Micro 1.0 with all models; cost and speed charts focus on this peer group.

Intelligence

Verification score: the share of 80 questions from open datasets answered correctly. See the benchmark datasets.

Score vs. cost per question

Nova Micro 1.0 circled; dashed line joins models no cheaper model beats

Score vs. end-to-end response time

Nova Micro 1.0 circled · accurate and quick sits top left

Score vs. tokens per question

Nova Micro 1.0 circled · output tokens, reasoning included

Verification score

All models tested on the current suite

61 more models · see the full leaderboard

Cost

Average cost of one question, split into input, reasoning and answer tokens at each model's list price. Reasoning tokens are billed as output.

Cost per question, by token type

Peer group: blended price under $0.15

1gpt-oss-20b$0.000049
2Granite 4.0 Micro$0.000051
3Granite 4.2 8B$0.000077
4Nova Micro 1.0$0.000087
5Mercury 2.5$0.00011
6Phi 4$0.00012
7Ministral 3 3B 2512$0.0002
8Solar Mini 4$0.00053
9Nemotron 3.5 Lightning$0.00059
10Ling 3.1 Flash$0.00061
11Reka Flash 3$0.0008
12Gemma 4 26B A4B$0.0011

Input Reasoning Answer

Cost per question, as billed

All models · lower is better

1Granite 4.0 Micro$0.000051
2gpt-oss-20b$0.000066
3Granite 4.2 8B$0.000077
4Nova Micro 1.0$0.000087
5Mercury 2.5$0.00011
6Phi 4$0.00012
7gpt-oss-120b$0.00013
8GLM 5.3 Flash$0.00015
9Ministral 3 3B 2512$0.00019
10GPT-6 Luna$0.00025

62 more models · see the full leaderboard

Speed and latency

Median of 3 streamed runs of the same prompt, measured 25 Oct 2026.

Output speed

Peer group (under $0.15) · higher is better

Time to first token

Peer group (under $0.15) · lower is better

End-to-end response time

Peer group (under $0.15) · lower is better

Latency vs. output speed

Nova Micro 1.0 circled · quick to start and fast sits top left

Results by category

Questions answered correctly in each category

Science3/30

Engineering1/15

Medicine3/11

Economics6/9

Law1/6

Humanities & social science4/9

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Hosts and prices

Every host serving this model through OpenRouter, from OpenRouter's catalogue

Host	Input / 1M	Output / 1M	Context	Max output	Quantization
Amazon Bedrock	$0.035	$0.14	128k	5k	—

Sources

Scores, speed and billed cost are our own measurements. Prices, context window and hosts come from OpenRouter's catalogue on the test date.

Nova Micro 1.0 on OpenRouter: list prices and hosts
SuperGPQA (paper): 50 of the questions, ODC-BY 1.0
MMLU-Pro (paper): 30 of the questions, MIT
OpenRouter generation records: where billed cost and native token counts come from
Our methodology and editorial standards

Nova Micro 1.0: frequently asked questions

How accurate is Nova Micro 1.0?: Nova Micro 1.0 answered 18 of 80 questions correctly (22.5%) in our 2026-10-27 run, ranking #70 of 78 models.
How fast is Nova Micro 1.0?: Nova Micro 1.0 generated a median of 180 output tokens per second in our 2026-10-27 run, ranking #9 of 78. Median time to first token was 0.5 s.
What is the latency of Nova Micro 1.0?: Nova Micro 1.0 had a median time to first token of 0.5 s in our 2026-10-27 run, ranking #10 of 78 models.
How much does Nova Micro 1.0 cost?: Nova Micro 1.0 cost $0.000087 per question on average as billed in our 2026-10-27 run, reasoning tokens included.
What is Nova Micro 1.0 API pricing?: Nova Micro 1.0 is listed at $0.035 per million input tokens and $0.14 per million output tokens on OpenRouter.
What is the context window of Nova Micro 1.0?: Nova Micro 1.0 accepts up to 128,000 tokens of context, according to OpenRouter's model catalogue.
Who makes Nova Micro 1.0?: Nova Micro 1.0 is made by Amazon. We tested it through OpenRouter using the model ID amazon/nova-micro-v1.
Where can I use Nova Micro 1.0 via API?: Through OpenRouter, Nova Micro 1.0 is served by 1 host: Amazon Bedrock.

Summary

Answers 18 of 80 verification questions correctly (22.5%), placing #70 of 72 models tested on the current suite.

Generates 180 output tokens per second, faster than 89% of the models we measure.

Starts responding after 0.5 s (median time to first token).

Costs $0.000087 per question as billed, #4 cheapest of 12 models priced under $0.15 per 1M tokens.

Host

Input / 1M

Output / 1M

Context

Max output

Quantization

Amazon Bedrock

$0.035

$0.14

128k

—

Sources

Scores, speed and billed cost are our own measurements. Prices, context window and hosts come from OpenRouter's catalogue on the test date.

Nova Micro 1.0: frequently asked questions

How accurate is Nova Micro 1.0?

Nova Micro 1.0 answered 18 of 80 questions correctly (22.5%) in our 2026-10-27 run, ranking #70 of 78 models.

How fast is Nova Micro 1.0?

Nova Micro 1.0 generated a median of 180 output tokens per second in our 2026-10-27 run, ranking #9 of 78. Median time to first token was 0.5 s.

What is the latency of Nova Micro 1.0?

Nova Micro 1.0 had a median time to first token of 0.5 s in our 2026-10-27 run, ranking #10 of 78 models.

How much does Nova Micro 1.0 cost?

Nova Micro 1.0 cost $0.000087 per question on average as billed in our 2026-10-27 run, reasoning tokens included.

What is Nova Micro 1.0 API pricing?

Nova Micro 1.0 is listed at $0.035 per million input tokens and $0.14 per million output tokens on OpenRouter.

What is the context window of Nova Micro 1.0?

Nova Micro 1.0 accepts up to 128,000 tokens of context, according to OpenRouter's model catalogue.

Who makes Nova Micro 1.0?

Nova Micro 1.0 is made by Amazon. We tested it through OpenRouter using the model ID amazon/nova-micro-v1.

Where can I use Nova Micro 1.0 via API?

Through OpenRouter, Nova Micro 1.0 is served by 1 host: Amazon Bedrock.