Amazon: Nova Lite 1.0
Analysis Summary
Amazon Nova Lite 1.0 sits between Micro and Pro in Amazon's Nova family, offering vision, tool use, and function calling with a 300K context window at just $0.06 input and $0.24 output per million tokens. Its intelligence index is modest but its multimodal breadth and large context make it punching above its price class for document-heavy tasks.
For businesses, it is well-suited to high-volume image analysis, long-document summarisation, and structured extraction workflows where cost control is critical. Instruction-following and long-context scores are reasonable, though coding and agentic reliability are limited, so it is not suited to complex software or autonomous agent tasks.
At this price point with vision and a 300K context window, it offers strong value for teams running large-scale content or document pipelines within the AWS ecosystem. It is one of the more cost-effective multimodal options available at this capability tier.
Assessed June 6, 2026
Editorial notes
Amazon Nova Lite 1.0 combines vision, tool use, and a 300K context window at very low cost, making it a strong value option for multimodal document and content workflows at scale.
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Performance Profile
How Amazon: Nova Lite 1.0 compares
Amazon: Nova Lite 1.0 ranks #272 of 378 AI models we track for overall intelligence, #274 of 315 for coding, #260 of 289 for agentic tasks. Its 300K-token context window is larger than 82% of the models we list. At $0.06 per million input tokens it is cheaper than 71% of comparable models.
About Amazon: Nova Lite 1.0
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
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| 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 |
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Frequently asked questions about Amazon: Nova Lite 1.0
How much does Amazon: Nova Lite 1.0 cost?
Amazon: Nova Lite 1.0 costs $0.06 per million input tokens and $0.24 per million output tokens.
What is the context window of Amazon: Nova Lite 1.0?
Amazon: Nova Lite 1.0 has a context window of 300,000 tokens (300K).
Is Amazon: Nova Lite 1.0 good for coding?
On our coding benchmark index, Amazon: Nova Lite 1.0 ranks #274 of 315 models, placing it in the broader range of the field for code generation and debugging.
What can Amazon: Nova Lite 1.0 do?
Amazon: Nova Lite 1.0 supports image/vision input, tool use, and function calling.
Who created Amazon: Nova Lite 1.0?
Amazon: Nova Lite 1.0 is developed by Amazon and was released on December 5, 2024.
