Amazon Nova
Nova Pro, Lite, Micro and Premier models served through Bedrock at aggressive token prices.
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Amazon Nova vs DeepSeek
Amazon Nova (AWS) and DeepSeek (DeepSeek) both sit in Writing. DeepSeek shipped more tracked changes in the last 30 days (11 vs 6). 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-1017 |
| Entry cost | Pricing is not published on this page (AWS credit offers exist) | Pay-as-you-go API pricing (not fully detailed in text). Free tier or flat-rate seats not specified. |
| Pricing tiers | AWS AI Free Trial (Credits) free | Pay-as-you-go API free |
| Model stack | Nova 2 Lite · Nova 2 Sonic · Nova Premier · Nova Pro | deepseek-flash · 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 · DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 |
| Context window | — | 1000000 |
| Public API | ||
| Routes models | ||
| Changes / 30d | 6 | 11 |
| 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 |
DeepSeek
Hangzhou lab whose V and R series models are released under permissive licences and undercut Western API pricing by an order of magnitude.
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