Nova Lite
by AmazonChat
Efficient model for low-latency assistance, extraction, and routine automation
- Context
- 300K tokens
- Max output
- 10,000 tokens
- Released
- 2024-12-03
- Weights
- Closed
amazon/nova-lite · also seen as eu.amazon.nova-lite-v1:0, amazon.nova-lite-v1:0, apac.amazon.nova-lite-v1:0, us.amazon.nova-lite-v1:0, +7 more
Specifications
Full facts as recorded, incl. what is unknown.
- Released
- 2024-12-03
- Weights
- Closed
- Input
- Text, Image, Video, PDF
- Output
- Text
- Context window
- 300,000 max across endpoints
- Max output
- 10,000
- Providers
- 3 + 6 gateways, not counted as providers
- Epoch Capabilities Index
- not evaluated
- Direct price range
- $0.06–$0.0825 in · $0.24–$0.33 out per 1M tokens · 2 of 3 providers have a comparable price
More details
- Last updated
- 2025-12-02
- Knowledge cutoff
- 2024-10
- Developer country
- United States of America
Capabilities
Across all endpoints: supported if any endpoint supports it.
- Tool calling
- Parallel toolsunknown
- Structured output
- Reasoning
- Image input
- PDF input
- Audio input
- Audio outputunknown
- Video input
- Prompt caching
- Web searchunknown
- Computer useunknown
- System messagesunknown
- Assistant prefillunknown
- Temperature
- Streamingunknown
- Attachments
Endpoints
One row per provider and variant; gateways are listed separately.
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Price history
No change since 19 Oct 2026. The cheapest direct price has been $0.06 in / $0.24 out per 1M tokens at Amazon Bedrock on every data refresh since then.
Tracked from 19 Oct 2026. Headline-eligible direct prices only, so a price the sanity check flags never draws a spike. Series as JSON
Cost calculator
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Blended rate per 1M tokens, each at its own cheapest provider (10M input : 2M output mix).
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|---|---|---|---|
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