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Nova Micro 1.0 vs Nova Premier 1.0

For a typical chat reply (2,000 tokens in, 400 out), Nova Premier 1.0 costs 79× as much as Nova Micro 1.0: $10.00 against $0.126 per 1,000 requests at list price on 2026-09-28.

Nova Micro 1.0Nova Premier 1.0
Input, per 1M tokens$0.035$2.50
Output, per 1M tokens$0.14$12.50
Context window128K1M
Classification or routing (600 tokens in, 10 out), per 1,000$0.0224$1.63
Chat reply (2,000 in, 400 out), per 1,000$0.126$10.00
Retrieval-augmented answer (8,000 in, 500 out), per 1,000$0.35$26.25
Confidence signalnono
Tool callingyesyes

Which one should carry your traffic?

If Nova Micro 1.0 answers your requests as well as Nova Premier 1.0, moving that traffic saves 99% on chat-shaped requests. Averages cannot tell you whether it does for your requests. Nova Micro 1.0 does not expose a confidence signal through OpenRouter, so Gimbix would test it as a full replacement rather than a first answer.

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