Amazon: Nova Lite 1.0
Analysis Summary
Amazon: Nova Lite 1.0 sits in the Efficient tier on our leaderboard, ranked #198 of 544 published models on overall intelligence. At $0.060 input and $0.240 output per 1M tokens, it is among the most expensive on the market. It offers a generous context window for extended reasoning and code review and supports tool use, function calling, and vision.
Editorial notes
Nova Lite 1.0 combines a 300K context, vision, and tool use at near-zero cost, making it viable for high-volume lightweight tasks, though its intelligence and coding scores are low.
Assessed May 5, 2026
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Performance Profile
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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Model Information
| OpenRouter ID |
amazon/nova-lite-v1
|
| Provider | amazon |
| Release Date | December 5, 2024 |
| Context Length | 300,000 tokens |
| Max Completion | 5,120 tokens |
| Status | Active |
Pricing
| Token Type | Cost per 1M tokens | Cost per 1K tokens |
|---|---|---|
| Input | $0.06 | $0.000060 |
| Output | $0.24 | $0.000240 |
Live Performance
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