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Amazon Nova Lite

Low-cost Amazon Nova with multimodal input for high-volume workloads.

Creator: Amazon
Lifecycle: Active
Context: 300.0K
Max output: 5.1K
Released: Dec 3, 2024
Status: unknown

Input: $0.06 / 1M tokens
Output: $0.24 / 1M tokens
Cached read: — / 1M tokens
Cached write: — / 1M tokens
Batch discount: —%
Source: Amazon Nova Lite pricing
Verified: Apr 5, 2026 (High)

Capabilities

Modalities: textimagevideo→text
Capabilities: imageInputbatchSupportpromptCachingfunctionCallingstructuredOutputs
Strengths: Very cheap multimodal, 300K context
Tradeoffs: Bedrock-only, Lower quality than Pro

Official Links

Intro

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/12/amazon-nova-models-bedrock/

Docs

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/bedrock/latest/userguide/nova.html

Pricing

https://aws.amazon.com/bedrock/pricing/

Release note

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-nova-models/

Benchmark Coverage

Benchmark	Version	Score	Date	Source	Notes

Release History

Release	Alias	Lifecycle	Release Date	Deprecation	Shutdown	Summary
Amazon Nova Lite	nova-lite	Active	Dec 3, 2024	—	—	Current published model family snapshot.

Host Coverage

Host	Type	Context	Pricing Note	Differences
AWS Bedrock	first-party	300.0K	$0.06/$0.24 per MTok.	—

Migration Guidance

Cost-down path within Nova family.

Replacement models: nova-pro

Change Events

Date	Type	Title	Description	Source
Dec 3, 2024	family_added	Amazon Nova Lite published	Initial public model family launch.	Amazon Nova Lite release notes

Other models from Amazon

Amazon Nova Micro, Amazon Nova Pro