Nova Lite
Efficient
Cheaper Nova for high-volume traffic. Same multimodal surface as Pro at a fraction of the cost.
Nova Lite is a efficient AI model from Amazon. It costs $0.060 per million input tokens and $0.240 per million output tokens (blended $0.114/M), with a 300,000-token context window.
INPUT
$0.060/M
per million input tokens
OUTPUT
$0.240/M
per million output tokens
CONTEXT
300,000
tokens
What it is good at
- Cheap multimodal
- Bedrock-native
- 300K context
Typical use cases
- High-volume Bedrock chat
- Cheap multimodal RAG
Benchmarks
vs. best public score
Hand-curated from each provider's published reports and public leaderboards. Methodology varies across sources, treat as directional rather than authoritative.
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Frequently asked questions
How much does Nova Lite cost?
Nova Lite costs $0.060 per million input tokens and $0.240 per million output tokens, for a blended reference rate of $0.114 per million tokens.
What is Nova Lite's context window?
Nova Lite supports up to 300,000 tokens of context in a single request.
What is Nova Lite best for?
Nova Lite is well suited to Cheap multimodal, Bedrock-native and 300K context.
Who makes Nova Lite?
Nova Lite is developed and served by Amazon.