Amazon

Nova Lite

CTX300K

27Quality

Vision · Tools

Input$0.06/M

Output$0.24/M

Efficient model for low-latency assistance, extraction, and routine automation

PaidProprietary445/1044

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Nova Lite

Efficient model for low-latency assistance, extraction, and routine automation

amazon.nova-lite-v1:0

Type: Text
Quality: 27 · Top 73% on the LMArena Text
Context window: 300,000 tokens
Max output: 10,000 tokens
Input price: $0.06 / 1M tokens
Output price: $0.24 / 1M tokens
Cache read: $0.015 / 1M tokens
Cache write: $0.06 / 1M tokens
Released: Dec 3, 2024
Knowledge cutoff: Oct 2024
Takes in: Text, Image, Video, PDF
Puts out: Text
Reasoning: No
Tool calling: Yes
Structured output: No
File attachments: Yes
Access: Paid
License: Proprietary
Rarity: Common
Set number: 445/1044

Open Amazon docs Quality 27 Where to run it 8 Evolution 1/2 Meet its creature Battle solar-pro3

Weights aren’t public. Use is governed by Amazon’s terms. Specs from models.dev, last changed Oct 19, 2026. Official source: nova.amazon.com.

How good is it?

Public leaderboard scores for Nova Lite, refreshed daily from Epoch AI and LMArena.

Top 73% of the 416 models on the LMArena Text: #303.

Quality is the share of a leaderboard’s models this one beats, from 0 to 100. Chat models are rated on Epoch AI’s Capabilities Index when it lists them, otherwise on LMArena; image and video models on LMArena’s image and video arenas.

Leaderboards

LMArena Text#303 of 416
People compare two anonymous answers and vote for the better one.1,228 rating
LMArena Text · Coding#296 of 411
The text arena’s coding prompts only.1,239 rating
LMArena Text · Math#292 of 400
The text arena’s math prompts only.1,227 rating
LMArena Text · Creative writing#310 of 414
The text arena’s creative writing prompts only.1,197 rating
LMArena Vision#150 of 165
Questions about images, voted by people.990 rating

Scores from LMArena, licensed CC BY 4.0. Boards list models under their own names, so a close match is shown with the name it was scored under. Credits

Where to run it

8 providers sell Nova Lite through an API. Prices are per million tokens, cheapest first.

CheapestNanoGPT$0.059 in · $0.24 out
From the labAmazon Bedrock$0.06 in · $0.24 out

API providers

Provider	Input	Output	Context
NanoGPTCheapest paid`amazon/nova-lite-v1`	$0.059	$0.24	300K
Amazon BedrockOfficial`amazon.nova-lite-v1:0`	$0.06	$0.24	300K
Eden AI`amazon/amazon.nova-lite-v1:0`	$0.06	$0.24	300K
Kilo Gateway`amazon/nova-lite-v1`	$0.06	$0.24	300K
OpenRouter`amazon/nova-lite-v1`	$0.06	$0.24	300K
Vercel AI Gateway`amazon/nova-lite`	$0.06	$0.24	300K
Cortecs`nova-lite-v1`	$0.069	$0.28	300K
AI/ML API`amazon/nova-lite-v1`	$0.083	$0.33	300K

From models.dev and Hugging Face, checked daily. Resellers’ listings can lag behind their price pages, so confirm with the provider before you commit.

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