Amazon Nova Lite
Amazon's cheap multimodal tier, under-a-cent-per-million-tokens for basic tasks.
Updated
Quick facts
- Released
- Dec 2024
- Context
- 300K tokens
- Output / 1M
- $0.24 / 1M tokens
- License
- Proprietary
About Amazon Nova Lite
Nova Lite is Amazon's small multimodal model, built for high-volume routing, classification, and basic chat at AWS-scale pricing. The 300k context window is unusually generous for a small-tier model and makes it useful for log-processing and routing tasks over long inputs.
Like the rest of the Nova family, it's AWS-only, attractive if you're already there, less so otherwise.
Benchmarks
Published scores from Other's model card or independent leaderboards. We do not publish numbers we cannot source, see methodology.
Capabilities
Strengths
- Very cheap
- AWS-native
- Multimodal
Tracked weaknesses
- AWS Bedrock only
- Quality limited
Pricing
Per-million-token rates as published by Other.
| Tier | Price | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Input | $0.060 / 1M tokens | Tokens you send to the model |
| Output | $0.24 / 1M tokens | Tokens the model generates |
| Context | 300K tokens | Max combined input + output |
Call Amazon Nova Lite from your code
Drop-in snippet for the Other SDK. Set your API key in the environment and run.
import OpenAI from "openai";
const client = new OpenAI({
// Use OPENAI_API_KEY for OpenAI, or your provider's key + baseURL.
apiKey: process.env.OPENAI_API_KEY,
});
const completion = await client.chat.completions.create({
model: "nova-lite",
messages: [
{ role: "user", content: "What's the time complexity of quicksort?" },
],
});
console.log(completion.choices[0].message.content);Compare Amazon Nova Lite with…
Frequently asked
How much does Amazon Nova Lite cost per million tokens?
Amazon Nova Lite is priced at $0.060 / 1M tokens for input tokens and $0.24 / 1M tokens for output tokens via the official Other API at the time of writing.What is Amazon Nova Lite's context window?
Amazon Nova Lite supports a context window of 300K tokens.Is Amazon Nova Lite open source?
No. Amazon Nova Lite is a closed-weight model, you can use it via Other's API but the model weights are not publicly downloadable.When was Amazon Nova Lite released?
Amazon Nova Lite was released on Dec 3, 2024 by Other.
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