Amazon · Released Dec 3, 2024Nova Lite
Efficient model for low-latency assistance, extraction, and routine automation.
- Capability
- —No ECI score yet
- Input
- $0.06per 1M tokens
- Output
- $0.24per 1M tokens
- Context
- 300K10K max output
What it costs
- Input
- $0.06per million tokens
- Output
- $0.24per million tokens
- Cached input
- $0.015per million tokens
- Cache write
- $0.06per million tokens
- Blended (3:1)
- $0.105cheaper than 91% of priced models
Typical monthly bills
| Monthly usage | Estimated cost |
|---|---|
| Side project2M input + 0.5M output tokens | $0.24 |
| Team assistant25M input + 5M output tokens | $2.70 |
| Production app250M input + 50M output tokens | $27.00 |
Official Amazon Bedrock API price, as listed on models.dev.
Independent benchmarks
Epoch AI has not published a Capabilities Index score for Nova Lite yet.
The details
- Lab
- Amazon
- Released
- Dec 3, 2024
- Knowledge cutoff
- Oct 2024
- Context window
- 300,000 tokens
- Max output
- 10,000 tokens
- Inputs
- Text, Images, PDFs, Video
- Output
- Text
- Reasoning
- No
- Tool calling
- Yes
- Structured output
- No
- Weights
- Proprietary
- API model ID
amazon.nova-lite-v1:0on Amazon Bedrock- Availability
- 3 API providerslisted on models.dev
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About Nova Lite
How much does Nova Lite cost?
Nova Lite costs $0.06 input / $0.24 output per million tokens (official Amazon Bedrock API price). Cached input is $0.015 per million tokens, and writing to the cache costs $0.06. At a 3:1 input-to-output mix that is $0.105 per million tokens, cheaper than 91% of the 360 priced models we track.
What is the context window of Nova Lite?
Nova Lite accepts up to 300,000 tokens per request and can write up to 10,000 tokens in one response.
How good is Nova Lite?
Epoch AI has not published a Capabilities Index score for Nova Lite yet.
Is Nova Lite open source?
No. Nova Lite is proprietary; you use it through Amazon Bedrock’s API or partner platforms.
What inputs does Nova Lite support?
Nova Lite accepts text, images, PDFs and video and replies in text. It is not a dedicated reasoning model, supports tool calling.
When was Nova Lite released?
Amazon released Nova Lite on Dec 3, 2024. Its training data runs to Oct 2024.
What are the best alternatives to Nova Lite?
The closest current models from other labs on capability, price and release date are Phi-4-mini (Microsoft, $0.075 / $0.30), Command R7B (Cohere, $0.037 / $0.15), Llama-3.2-3B (Meta, $0.10 / $0.335) and Pixtral 12B (Mistral AI, $0.15 / $0.15).