Amazon Nova
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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.
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.
13 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 6
- criticize it
- 7
- approval share
- 46%
Recommended in 2 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 6 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- 0.8 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, not met.
- Recommended in 2 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, not met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Good for non-chat projects
“In my three or four non chatbot related projects, I’ve found Amazon’s Nova models to be just as good as Anthropic’s.”
Comment from 2 Dec 2025 in “Anthropic acquires Bun” “I’ve also found their internal Nova models to be pretty good for my projects.”
Comment from 7 Dec 2025 in “Google Titans architecture, helping AI have long-term memory”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Behind rival models on benchmarks
“Seems okay. It's no Opus 4.5 or Gemini 3 Pro according to the benchmarks.”
Comment from 3 Dec 2025 in “Amazon introduces new frontier Nova models” “definitely not even on the same table than thsoe models so its irrelevant”
Comment from 2 Jun 2026 in “OpenAI frontier models and Codex are now available on AWS” “Nova 1 was entirely uncompetitive”
Comment from 4 Dec 2025 in “Anthropic taps IPO lawyers as it races OpenAI to go public” - Comment from 19 Feb 2026 in “Gemini 3.1 Pro”
Nobody seems to use them
“AWS has nova and titan models that nobody seems to use”
Comment from 17 Aug 2026 in “We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility” “Amazon missed the AI train, no one looks to them”
Comment from 1 Dec 2025 in “Amazon Nova Foundation Models” “Nova is a piece of crap, nobody is using it.”
Comment from 3 Dec 2025 in “Anthropic taps IPO lawyers as it races OpenAI to go public” Dumb and loses context in chat
“It markedly "dumb" in comparison, losing sight of facts that I presented in the first prompt of the chat”
Comment from 27 Oct 2026 in “Amazon Is Gutting Its AI Division After Sustained Failure” “Nova-micro is really stupid but is extremely fast when it's smart enough to do something”
Comment from 21 Aug 2026 in “What Happens When the Cost of Intelligence Drops 100x”
Other language models people recommend
The four most recommended other language models, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Opus | 3,331 | 2,746 | 55% | 13 | 4 mo156 owners | — |
| OpenAI GPT | 1,205 | 987 | 55% | 13 | 6 mo47 owners | — |
| Claude Sonnet | 854 | 586 | 59% | 13 | 6 mo46 owners | — |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 828 | 223 | 79% | 8 | 1 mo24 owners | Approved |
| Amazon NovaThis page | 6 | 7 | 46% | 2 | — | — |
What people said
All 14 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“It markedly "dumb" in comparison, losing sight of facts that I presented in the first prompt of the chat”
“Nova-micro is really stupid but is extremely fast when it's smart enough to do something”
“AWS has nova and titan models that nobody seems to use”
“I've actually seen better performance with older ones like Meta Llama 4 or Amazon's Nova”
“definitely not even on the same table than thsoe models so its irrelevant”
“Nova models aren't competitive”
“the nova foundational models + bedrock + ml services are in the right direction”
“I’ve also found their internal Nova models to be pretty good for my projects.”
“Nova 1 was entirely uncompetitive”
“Nova is a piece of crap, nobody is using it.”
“Seems okay. It's no Opus 4.5 or Gemini 3 Pro according to the benchmarks.”
“In my three or four non chatbot related projects, I’ve found Amazon’s Nova models to be just as good as Anthropic’s.”
“Amazon missed the AI train, no one looks to them”
“They aren't bad models and might be good enough (cheap enough) for a lot of use cases”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.