Nova Lite 1.0 — Amazon (AWS) | Modeldex

Nova Lite 1.0

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Amazon Nova Lite 1.0 is a very low-cost multimodal model from Amazon that focused on fast processing of image, video, and text inputs to generate text output. Amazon Nova Lite...

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VisionLong contextBudget

Knowledge cutoff

Oct 31, 2024(1.5 years ago)

API release

Dec 5, 2024(1.4 years ago)

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

Overview

Amazon Nova Lite 1.0 is a very low-cost multimodal model from Amazon that focused on fast processing of image, video, and text inputs to generate text output. Amazon Nova Lite...

History

Nova Lite 1.0 became available via the Amazon (AWS) API on 2024-12-05.

Training & availability

Training data has a knowledge cutoff of 2024-10-31 — information about events after that date is unlikely to appear in the model's responses. Amazon (AWS) has not released the underlying model weights — access is via their hosted API only.

Capabilities

Context window: 300K tokens.
Input modalities: text, image.

Recommended for: vision, long-context, cheap.

Limitations

The knowledge cutoff is 17 months old — this model will not know about recent events, releases, or API changes.

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/nova-lite-v1",
    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

Providers & performance

1 provider

Multi-provider inference routes for this model — sorted by throughput. Latency is time-to-first-token; throughput is output tokens per second. Data from OpenRouter, measured over the last 30 minutes.

Provider	Throughput	Latency (TTFT)	Input $ / 1M	Output $ / 1M	Context	Quant	Supports
Amazon Bedrock	104tok/s	472ms	$0.06	$0.24	300K	—	tools

Integrations & tooling support

Tool calling: Not supported
Structured outputs: Not supported

Price vs quality

Budget pricing

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