Managed Inference and Agents API with Amazon Nova Pro
Last updated August 19, 2025
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Amazon Nova Pro is a high-performance large language model (LLM) designed for complex tasks. It offers a multimodal solution that can process image, video, and text inputs.
- Model ID:
nova-pro - Region:
us,eu
When to Use This Model
Amazon Nova Pro is ideal for a variety of common use cases, including advanced question-answering, content creation, and data extraction. It’s optimized to provide an ideal combination of accuracy, speed, and cost.
Usage
Amazon Nova Pro follows our /v1/chat/completions API schema.
To provision access to the model, attach nova-pro to your app example-app:
heroku ai:models:create -a example-app nova-pro
You can invoke nova-pro in a variety of ways:
- Heroku CLI
aiplugin (heroku ai:models:call) - curl
- Python
- Ruby
- Javascript
Example curl Request
Get started quickly with an example request:
export INFERENCE_MODEL_ID=$(heroku config:get -a example-app INFERENCE_MODEL_ID)
export INFERENCE_KEY=$(heroku config:get -a example-app INFERENCE_KEY)
export INFERENCE_URL=$(heroku config:get -a example-app INFERENCE_URL)
curl $INFERENCE_URL/v1/chat/completions \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $INFERENCE_KEY" \
-d @- <<EOF
{
"model": "$INFERENCE_MODEL_ID",
"messages": [
{ "role": "user", "content": "Hello!" },
{ "role": "assistant", "content": "Hi there! How can I assist you today?" },
{ "role": "user", "content": "What's the weather like in Portland, Oregon right now?" }
],
"temperature": 0.5,
"max_tokens": 100,
"stream": false,
"tools": [
{
"type": "function",
"function": {
"name": "get_weather",
"description": "Fetches the current weather for a given city.",
"parameters": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"city": {
"type": "string",
"description": "The name of the city to get weather for."
}
},
"required": ["city"]
}
}
}
],
"tool_choice": "auto",
"top_p": 0.9
}
EOF