Amazon model product
Amazon Nova 2 Sonic is Amazon's second-generation speech-to-speech foundation model for real-time conversational AI. It delivers expressive, native-sounding voices and high streaming speech-understanding accuracy across English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Hindi, and Portuguese, surpassing GPT-Realtime and Gemini 2.5 Flash Live on conversational quality in human evaluations. It supports asynchronous tool calling, configurable turn-taking, and seamless switching between voice and text modalities for low-latency interactions.
Updated Aug 10, 2026. Default version: Nova 2 Sonic
Structured fields from the published default version.
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Published benchmark records for the scored version Nova 2 Sonic.
| Big Bench Audio | 0.9 | 1 | 1 | 100.0% | C | |
| ComplexFuncBench | 0.7 | 3 | 7 | 66.7% | C | |
| BFCL | 0.7 | 4 | 11 | 70.0% | C | |
| IFBench | 0.4 | 27 | 28 | 3.7% | C |
Preference and agent-evaluation signals from published Arena datasets.
The default version has no published Arena rows, or its source alias has not been resolved.
Official vendor API PAYG pricing is summarized first. The table then lists individual provider offerings without treating their minimum as the official price.
The default version has no provider offering with current input or output token prices.
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All published versions linked to this unique model. The score columns identify the version used by the current overall ranking.
| Nova 2 Sonic | 15.8 | N/A | 1M | 65.5K | No | Proprietary |
A concise description based on the published model registry.
Amazon Nova 2 Sonic is Amazon's second-generation speech-to-speech foundation model for real-time conversational AI. It delivers expressive, native-sounding voices and high streaming speech-understanding accuracy across English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Hindi, and Portuguese, surpassing GPT-Realtime and Gemini 2.5 Flash Live on conversational quality in human evaluations. It supports asynchronous tool calling, configurable turn-taking, and seamless switching between voice and text modalities for low-latency interactions.
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Data snapshot: 2026-08-07. Editorial model content is not available in the backend.
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Common questions about Nova 2 Sonic.
Nova 2 Sonic's default version was released on Dec 2, 2025.
No official standard PAYG price is currently available for Nova 2 Sonic.
Nova 2 Sonic is published under Amazon in the model registry.
The default version has a 1M token context window.
No. The default version is not marked as having publicly available weights.
No published provider offering is currently linked to the default version.
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