# Amazon Nova

6 Hacker News commenters recommended Amazon Nova and 7 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 2 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** Amazon's AI models on AWS, which some find as good as Anthropic's for non-chat projects and cheap enough for many uses. Most common caveat: critics say they trail rival models.

## Why people recommend it

- Good for non-chat projects (2 comments): "In my three or four non chatbot related projects, I’ve found Amazon’s Nova models to be just as good as Anthropic’s." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46127106)) "I’ve also found their internal Nova models to be pretty good for my projects." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46184458))

## What people warn about

- Behind rival models on benchmarks (4 comments): "Seems okay. It's no Opus 4.5 or Gemini 3 Pro according to the benchmarks." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46135933)) "definitely not even on the same table than thsoe models so its irrelevant" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48366893)) "Nova 1 was entirely uncompetitive" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46142240))
- Nobody seems to use them (3 comments): "AWS has nova and titan models that nobody seems to use" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49332169)) "Amazon missed the AI train, no one looks to them" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46114070)) "Nova is a piece of crap, nobody is using it." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46141056))
- Dumb and loses context in chat (2 comments): "It markedly "dumb" in comparison, losing sight of facts that I presented in the first prompt of the chat" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50264194)) "Nova-micro is really stupid but is extremely fast when it's smart enough to do something" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49389267))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [Claude Opus](https://hackerapproved.com/p/claude-opus.md): 3331 recommend
- [OpenAI GPT](https://hackerapproved.com/p/gpt-5-5.md): 1205 recommend
- [Claude Sonnet](https://hackerapproved.com/p/claude-sonnet.md): 854 recommend
- [DeepSeek V4 Flash](https://hackerapproved.com/p/deepseek-v4-flash.md): 828 recommend
- [Fable](https://hackerapproved.com/p/fable.md): 823 recommend

## Where to get it

- [Visit the official site](https://aws.amazon.com/nova/)

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Amazon Nova", https://hackerapproved.com/p/amazon-nova/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).