How much does Nova Micro 1.0 cost?

Billing is usage-based: $0.035 per million input tokens and $0.14 per million output tokens. There is no monthly minimum. You pay only for the tokens you actually use.

How do I access Nova Micro 1.0 from inside Iran?

Create a Hormouz account, generate an API key and point your client at Hormouz. Access to Nova Micro 1.0 is served from inside Iran, so you do not need a foreign credit card, a VPN or any sanction-circumvention tooling.

Is Nova Micro 1.0 compatible with the OpenAI SDK?

Yes. Hormouz exposes an OpenAI-compatible chat-completions API. Change the base URL to Hormouz and drop in your Hormouz key, and existing OpenAI SDK code runs unchanged.

What context window does Nova Micro 1.0 support?

Nova Micro 1.0 supports a context window of up to 128K tokens, which is enough for long documents and extended conversations in a single request.

What is Nova Micro best for?

Fast, cheap, high-volume text tasks: summarization, translation, classification, interactive chat and brainstorming. It is text-only, so use Nova Lite or Nova Pro if you need image or video input.

Amazon: Nova Micro 1.0: AI model

Nova Micro 1.0 is Amazon's lowest-latency, text-only Nova model for fast, cheap tasks, with a 128K context window. Served from inside Iran through Hormouz.

Context window:: 128,000 tokens
Input:: $0.04/1M tokens
Output:: $0.14/1M tokens
Type:: text

Tools
Streaming
Long context

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Nova Micro 1.0 is the text-only model in Amazon's Nova family that delivers the lowest latency at a very low cost. It is optimized for speed and price and excels at tasks such as summarization, translation, content classification, interactive chat and brainstorming, with simple math and coding ability.

It supports a 128K-token context window with outputs of up to about 5K tokens and tool calling. It is a good default when you need many fast, inexpensive responses and do not need image or video input.

On Hormouz, Nova Micro is served behind an OpenAI-compatible API and reachable from inside Iran without a foreign credit card. Billing is usage-based at $0.035 per million input tokens and $0.14 per million output tokens. One of the cheapest options in the catalog.

Amazon Nova Micro 1.0 is a text-only model that delivers the lowest latency responses in the Amazon Nova family of models at a very low cost. With a context length...

Quickstart

curl https://api.hormouz.net/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer ng-YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "amazon/nova-micro-v1",
    "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}]
  }'

Specs

Vendor	Amazon
Type	Text
Context window	128,000 tokens
Pricing	$0.04/M in · $0.14/M out
API	Chat Completions
Capabilities	Streaming · Tools

Benchmarks

Reasoning

GPQA Diamond

Graduate-level scientific reasoning

35.8%

HLE

Humanity's Last Exam

4.6%

IFBench

Instruction-following

29.4%

AA-LCR

Long-context reasoning

13%

CritPt

Research-level physics reasoning

AA Omniscience

Broad factual knowledge accuracy

10%

Non-Hallucination

Rate of avoiding fabricated answers

34.9%

Coding

Terminal-Bench Hard

Agentic coding & terminal use

1.5%

Agentic

τ²-Bench

Tool-use agents in dual-control scenarios

14%

Source: Artificial Analysis

Code example

cURL

curl https://api.hormouz.net/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer ng-YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "amazon/nova-micro-v1",
    "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}]
  }'

Python

from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(api_key="ng-YOUR_API_KEY", base_url="https://api.hormouz.net/v1")
response = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="amazon/nova-micro-v1",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}],
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)

JavaScript

import OpenAI from "openai";
const client = new OpenAI({ apiKey: "ng-YOUR_API_KEY", baseURL: "https://api.hormouz.net/v1" });
const response = await client.chat.completions.create({
  model: "amazon/nova-micro-v1",
  messages: [{ role: "user", content: "Hello!" }],
});
console.log(response.choices[0].message.content);

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FAQ

How much does Nova Micro 1.0 cost?: Billing is usage-based: $0.035 per million input tokens and $0.14 per million output tokens. There is no monthly minimum. You pay only for the tokens you actually use.
How do I access Nova Micro 1.0 from inside Iran?: Create a Hormouz account, generate an API key and point your client at Hormouz. Access to Nova Micro 1.0 is served from inside Iran, so you do not need a foreign credit card, a VPN or any sanction-circumvention tooling.
Is Nova Micro 1.0 compatible with the OpenAI SDK?: Yes. Hormouz exposes an OpenAI-compatible chat-completions API. Change the base URL to Hormouz and drop in your Hormouz key, and existing OpenAI SDK code runs unchanged.
What context window does Nova Micro 1.0 support?: Nova Micro 1.0 supports a context window of up to 128K tokens, which is enough for long documents and extended conversations in a single request.
What is Nova Micro best for?: Fast, cheap, high-volume text tasks: summarization, translation, classification, interactive chat and brainstorming. It is text-only, so use Nova Lite or Nova Pro if you need image or video input.

Updated 2026-10-13