Amazon
Amazon ranks #31 of 91 providers on BenchLeader by its best model, with 10 ranked models. Its best model is Nova 2.0 Pro Preview at 50.5 on the BenchLeader Index, strongest in instruction following. Prices run from $0.065 to $5.00 per million tokens blended; Nova Micro is the cheapest ranked option. The fastest is Nova Micro at 280 tokens per second. It has shipped 5 dated releases, roughly one every 148 days; the last was 2 Dec 2025, so the next would be due between 28 Feb 2026 and 27 Jun 2026 on that pattern.
AWS's Nova family sits alongside Bedrock's third-party catalogue; Amazon is also Anthropic's largest investor.
- Provider rank
- #31
- by best model
- Best index
- 50.5
- Nova 2.0 Pro Preview (medium)
- Ranked models
- 10
- 0 open weights
- Cheapest ranked
- $0.065/M
- Nova Micro
Release timeline
Each model’s best configuration by release date. The top eight are labelled; hover any point for its name.
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Next release
Over the last two years Amazon shipped 5 distinct models, one every 148 days on median. The latest arrived on 2 Dec 2025.
If the cadence holds, the next one lands between 28 Feb 2026 and 27 Jun 2026.
An estimate from past release dates only. It knows nothing about roadmaps or announcements.
Fastest ranked model: Nova Micro at 280 tok/s.
Models
Every Amazon model with a result, one row per model; switch to all configurations to see each reasoning effort.
| # | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nova 2.0 Pro Previewmedium | 50.5±8 | $3.44 | 125 | 27 s | 256k | 2025-12-02 | 2025-12-02 · stale |
| 2 | Nova 2.0 Litethinking | 49.1±7 | $0.850 | 182 | 27 s | 1M | 2025-10-29 | 2025-10-29 · stale |
| 3 | Nova 2 Lite | 48.9±4 | $0.935 | 115 | 0.65 s | 1M | 2025-12-02 | 2026-10-22 |
| 4 | Nova 2.0 Omnimedium | 47.3±7 | – | – | – | 1M | 2025-11-26 | 2025-11-26 · stale |
| 5 | Nova Premier | 45.3±3 | $5.00 | – | – | 1M | 2025-04-30 | 2025-11-24 · stale |
| 6 | Nova Pro 1.0 | 43.8±7 | – | – | – | – | – | 2026-10-22 |
| 7 | Nova Lite 1.0 | 42.2±6 | – | – | – | – | – | 2026-10-22 |
| 8 | Nova Pro(Dec 2024) | 39.8±4 | $1.40 | 129 | 1.11 s | 300k | 2024-12-03 | 2025-11-24 · stale |
| 9 | Nova Micro(Dec 2024) | 39.6±2 | $0.065 | 280 | 0.86 s | 128k | 2024-12-03 | 2025-11-24 · stale |
| 10 | Nova Lite(Dec 2024) | 38.3±4 | $0.105 | 171 | 0.90 s | 300k | 2024-12-03 | 2025-11-24 · stale |
| 11 | Nova Micro 1.0 | – | – | – | – | – | – | 2026-10-22 |
| 12 | Nova 3 Streaming | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
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