Amazon Nova · Rate Limits

Amazon Nova Rate Limits

Published Amazon Bedrock service quotas that govern Amazon Nova model invocation, harvested from the AWS General Reference quota tables on 2026-09-01. This file REPLACES an API Evangelist scaffold dated 2026-05-04 that asserted invented per-key request quotas and X-RateLimit-* headers; none of those existed. Amazon Nova is not rate limited per API key at all — it is quota'd per AWS account, per region, per MODEL, in requests-per-minute and tokens-per-minute.

Amazon Nova Rate Limits is the machine-readable rate-limit profile for Amazon Nova on the APIs.io network, conforming to the API Commons Rate Limits specification.

It captures 20 rate-limit definitions, measuring requests_per_minute, tokens_per_minute, and concurrent_requests.

The profile also includes 3 backoff/retry policies defined and response codes documented for throttled, quotaExceeded, and serviceUnavailable.

Tagged areas include Foundation Models, Rate Limiting, Quotas, and Throttling.

20 Limits Throttle: 429 Quota: 400
Foundation ModelsRate LimitingQuotasThrottling

Limits

On-demand model inference requests per minute for Amazon Nova Micro account-region-model
requests_per_minute
2000
On-demand model inference tokens per minute for Amazon Nova Micro account-region-model
tokens_per_minute
4000000
On-demand model inference requests per minute for Amazon Nova Lite account-region-model
requests_per_minute
2000
On-demand model inference tokens per minute for Amazon Nova Lite account-region-model
tokens_per_minute
4000000
On-demand model inference requests per minute for Amazon Nova Pro account-region-model
requests_per_minute
250
On-demand model inference tokens per minute for Amazon Nova Pro account-region-model
tokens_per_minute
1000000
On-Demand, latency-optimized model inference requests per minute for Amazon Nova Pro V1 account-region-model
requests_per_minute
10
On-Demand, latency-optimized model inference tokens per minute for Amazon Nova Pro V1 account-region-model
tokens_per_minute
40000
Cross-region model inference requests per minute for Amazon Nova Premier V1 account-region-model
requests_per_minute
500
Cross-region model inference tokens per minute for Amazon Nova Premier V1 account-region-model
tokens_per_minute
2000000
On-demand model inference requests per minute for Amazon Nova Canvas account-region-model
requests_per_minute
100
On-demand InvokeModel concurrent requests for Amazon Nova Reel 1.0 account-region-model
concurrent_requests
10
On-demand InvokeModel concurrent requests for Amazon Nova Reel 1.1 account-region-model
concurrent_requests
3
On-demand InvokeModel concurrent requests for Amazon Nova Sonic account-region-model
concurrent_requests
20
Cross-region model inference requests per minute for Amazon Nova 2 Lite account-region-model
requests_per_minute
2000
Cross-region model inference tokens per minute for Amazon Nova 2 Lite account-region-model
tokens_per_minute
8000000
Cross-region model inference requests per minute for Amazon Nova 2 Omni account-region-model
requests_per_minute
2000
Cross-region model inference tokens per minute for Amazon Nova 2 Omni account-region-model
tokens_per_minute
8000000
Cross-region model inference requests per minute for Amazon Nova 2 Pro Preview account-region-model
requests_per_minute
100
Cross-region model inference tokens per minute for Amazon Nova 2 Pro Preview account-region-model
tokens_per_minute
1000000

Policies

Backoff Strategy
No Retry-After is returned, so a caller must implement exponential backoff with jitter on its own. ModelNotReadyException is the only error Amazon marks retryable in the service model; AWS SDKs retry it automatically.
Quota Discovery
Current and remaining quota is not observable from a response. Read it from the Service Quotas console or API (service code `bedrock`) and from CloudWatch metrics.
Quota Increase
Token-per-minute quotas are generally adjustable via Service Quotas; on-demand requests-per-minute quotas for most Nova models are marked not adjustable.

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