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Amazon: Nova Premier 1.0: AI model

Nova Premier 1.0 is Amazon's most capable Nova model for complex reasoning and for teaching distilled models, with a 1M-token context window. Through Hormouz from inside Iran.

Context window:
1,000,000 tokens
Input:
$2.5/1M tokens
Output:
$12.5/1M tokens
Type:
text, image
  • Vision
  • Tools
  • Streaming
  • Long context

Nova Premier 1.0 is the most capable model in Amazon's Nova family, built for complex multimodal reasoning tasks. It also serves as a strong "teacher" model for distilling smaller, custom models. You can use it to generate high-quality training signal for a cheaper student model.

It accepts text and image input, returns text, and supports a large 1M-token context window with outputs of up to about 32K tokens, plus tool calling. Its strength is depth on hard problems rather than the lowest cost, so it fits demanding reasoning and multimodal analysis.

On Hormouz, Nova Premier is served behind an OpenAI-compatible API and reachable from inside Iran without a foreign card. Billing is usage-based at $2.50 per million input tokens and $12.50 per million output tokens.

Amazon Nova Premier is the most capable of Amazon’s multimodal models for complex reasoning tasks and for use as the best teacher for distilling custom models.

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-premier-v1",
    "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}]
  }'

Specs

VendorAmazon
TypeText, Image
Context window1,000,000 tokens
Pricing$2.50/M in · $12.50/M out
APIChat Completions
CapabilitiesStreaming · Vision · Tools

Benchmarks

Reasoning

GPQA Diamond
Graduate-level scientific reasoning
56.9%
HLE
Humanity's Last Exam
4.2%
IFBench
Instruction-following
36.2%
AA-LCR
Long-context reasoning
34.3%
CritPt
Research-level physics reasoning
0%
AA Omniscience
Broad factual knowledge accuracy
21.2%
Non-Hallucination
Rate of avoiding fabricated answers
28.1%

Coding

Terminal-Bench Hard
Agentic coding & terminal use
6.8%

Agentic

τ²-Bench
Tool-use agents in dual-control scenarios
38.3%

Source: Artificial Analysis

Design Arena

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Top 97%
842Elo
Win rate: 26.2%Avg time: 14.7s

Metrics sourced from Design Arena

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-premier-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-premier-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-premier-v1",
  messages: [{ role: "user", content: "Hello!" }],
});
console.log(response.choices[0].message.content);

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FAQ

How much does Nova Premier 1.0 cost?
Billing is usage-based: $2.5 per million input tokens and $12.5 per million output tokens. There is no monthly minimum. You pay only for the tokens you actually use.
How do I access Nova Premier 1.0 from inside Iran?
Create a Hormouz account, generate an API key and point your client at Hormouz. Access to Nova Premier 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 Premier 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 Premier 1.0 support?
Nova Premier 1.0 supports a context window of up to 1M tokens, which is enough for long documents and extended conversations in a single request.
What sets Nova Premier apart in the Nova family?
It is the most capable Nova model, aimed at complex reasoning, and it works well as a teacher model for distilling smaller custom models. It costs more per token, so reserve it for demanding tasks where depth matters.
Can Nova Premier be used to train smaller models?
Yes. Amazon positions it as a strong teacher for distillation. You can use its high-quality outputs as training signal for a cheaper, specialized student model.

Updated 2026-10-13