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Amazon Nova vs DeepSeek

Amazon Nova (AWS) and DeepSeek (DeepSeek) both sit in Writing. Every value below comes from the latest crawl of the vendors' own pages.

Attribute	Amazon Nova AWS	DeepSeek DeepSeek
Segment	Writing	Writing
Version	Nova 2	DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash
Entry cost	Free tier available (up to $200 in AWS credits for new customers), pricing varies by service and usage.	Pay-as-you-go API pricing. DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash starts at $0.15/1M input tokens (cache miss, off-peak) and $0.60/1M output tokens (off-peak).
Pricing tiers	AWS Free Tier (New Customers) free	deepseek-flash (Input Cache Hit - Off-Peak) $0.003 · deepseek-flash (Input Cache Hit - Peak) $0.006 · deepseek-flash (Input Cache Miss - Off-Peak) $0.15 · deepseek-flash (Input Cache Miss - Peak) $0.3 · deepseek-flash (Output - Off-Peak) $0.6 · deepseek-flash (Output - Peak) $1.2
Model stack	Nova 2 Lite · Nova 2 Sonic · Nova Premier · Nova Pro	DeepSeek-R1 · DeepSeek-V3.2 · deepseek-v4-flash · DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 · DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp · DeepSeek-V4-Pro · DeepSeek-V4-Pro-0813 · DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash
Context window	—	1M
Public API
Routes models
Changes / 30d	9	9
Origin	United States	China
Capabilities	Multimodal, Long context, Bedrock distillation, Agentic tool use, Nova Models, Nova Forge, Nova Act, text models	Reasoning mode, Open weights (MIT), OpenAI-compatible API, Context caching, Function calling, Thinking Mode, Context Caching, JSON Output

Amazon Nova

Nova Pro, Lite, Micro and Premier models served through Bedrock at aggressive token prices.

Hangzhou lab whose V and R series models are released under permissive licences and undercut Western API pricing by an order of magnitude.