Nova Micro vs MiniMax M2.1 on Amazon Bedrock

In us-east-1, Nova Micro costs $0.035 per 1M input tokens against $0.300 — a 8.6× difference. Prices, context, capabilities and region coverage below.

amazon.nova-micro-v1:0
Input / 1M
$0.035
Output / 1M
$0.140
Context
128K
Est. / month
$37.80
minimax.minimax-m2.1
Input / 1M
$0.300
Output / 1M
$1.20
Context
Est. / month
$324.00

Capabilities

Capability Nova Micro MiniMax M2.1
Tool use
Vision
Prompt caching
Batch inference
Streaming

Region availability

Region Nova Micro MiniMax M2.1
us-east-1 US East (N. Virginia) On-demand On-demand
us-east-2 US East (Ohio) Inference profile only On-demand
us-west-2 US West (Oregon) Inference profile only On-demand
eu-west-1 EU (Ireland) Inference profile only On-demand
eu-west-2 EU (London) On-demand On-demand
eu-west-3 EU (Paris) Inference profile only Not available
eu-central-1 EU (Frankfurt) Inference profile only On-demand
eu-north-1 EU (Stockholm) Inference profile only On-demand
ap-southeast-1 Asia Pacific (Singapore) Inference profile only Not available
ap-southeast-2 Asia Pacific (Sydney) On-demand On-demand
ap-northeast-1 Asia Pacific (Tokyo) Inference profile only On-demand
ap-northeast-2 Asia Pacific (Seoul) Inference profile only Not available
ap-south-1 Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Inference profile only On-demand
sa-east-1 South America (Sao Paulo) Not available On-demand

10 of 16 regions support both models.

Common questions

Is Nova Micro or MiniMax M2.1 cheaper on Amazon Bedrock?
Nova Micro is cheaper on input tokens: $0.035 against $0.300 per 1M in us-east-1, a 8.6× difference. At 2,000 runs a day with 12,000 input and 1,500 output tokens each, that is $37.80 against $324.00 a month before any caching or batch discount.
Does Nova Micro or MiniMax M2.1 have the larger context window?
Nova Micro, at 128K tokens against 0.
Which regions support Nova Micro and MiniMax M2.1?
Nova Micro runs in 13 of the 16 AWS regions tracked here and MiniMax M2.1 in 11. 10 regions support both, so a workload that may switch between them should target one of those.