Amazon Nova Lite — Amazon (AWS) | Modeldex

Amazon Nova Lite

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Low-cost multimodal model from Amazon for high-throughput workloads.

Updated 5 days agoStructured data from Modeldex catalog

VisionAgenticLong contextBudget

Not enough benchmark coverage yet for an Intelligence Index — needs at least 3 results across 2 categories.

Overview

Amazon Nova Lite is designed for high-volume, cost-sensitive workloads requiring multimodal capabilities at low latency.

History

Amazon Nova Lite was released on 2024-12-03.

Training & availability

Amazon (AWS) has not released the underlying model weights — access is via their hosted API only.

Capabilities

Context window: 300K tokens.
Max output: 5K tokens.
Input modalities: text, image, video.

Recommended for: vision, agentic, long-context, cheap.

Pricing

Input: $0.0600 per 1M tokens
Output: $0.2400 per 1M tokens

Use the cost calculator above to estimate monthly spend for your workload.

Quick start

Minimal example using the OpenRouter API. Copy, paste, replace the key.

from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    base_url="https://openrouter.ai/api/v1",
    api_key="sk-or-...",
)
resp = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="amazon/amazon-nova-lite",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Explain quantum computing in one sentence."}],
)
print(resp.choices[0].message.content)

Cost calculator

Estimate your monthly bill. Presets are typical workload sizes.

Input tokens / month5.0M

@ $0.06/1M

Output tokens / month2.0M

@ $0.24/1M

Input cost

$0.3

5.0M × $0.06/1M

Output cost

$0.48

2.0M × $0.24/1M

Total / month

$0.78

$9.36 / year

Integrations & tooling support

Tool calling: Supported
Structured outputs: Not supported

Price vs quality

Budget pricing

Priced low — good for high-volume tasks. Quality tier pending more benchmark coverage.