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.
Ways to buy 3
| Way to buy | Input | Output | In / out per 1M | Cached | Vs list |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
The lab's own API | $0.06 | $0.24 | $0.06 / $0.24List price | n/a | List price |
Default region | $0.06 | $0.24 | $0.06 / $0.24Same as list | n/a | Same as list |
eu-west-1 | $0.06 | $0.24 | $0.06 / $0.24Same as list | n/a | Same as list |
USD per 1M tokens. Regions are separate routes.
Through a gateway
Your own numbers100M input and 20M output tokens a month: $10.80 direct.
Kong AI Gateway$10.80+0%
LiteLLM$10.80+0%
Vercel AI Gateway$10.80+0%
Eden AI$11.39+5.5%
OpenRouter$11.39+5.5%
Cloudflare AI GatewayNot offeredNot offered
HeliconeNot offeredNot offered
Neon AI GatewayNot offeredNot offered
RequestyNot offeredNot offered
A dash: not on that gateway's own model list. No published token fee: Martian Gateway, Portkey, TrueFoundry AI Gateway.
Related models
| In / out per 1M | Cheapest route | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Amazon Nova · 8K | $0.1 | Free | $0.1 / Free | $0.075 | 8K | Lab list price | · | Amazon Titan Embeddings G1 - Text is the first-generation Titan text embedding model. |
Amazon Nova · 0K | $0.8 | Free | $0.8 / Free | $0.6 | 0K | Lab list price | · | Amazon Titan Multimodal Embeddings G1 embeds text, images, or text and image together into a shared vector space for multimodal search and recommendation. |
Amazon Nova · 8K | $0.02 | Free | $0.02 / Free | $0.015 | 8K | Lab list price | · | Amazon Titan Text Embeddings V2 is a text embedding model for retrieval, search, and clustering. |
Amazon Nova · 1M | $0.3 | $2.5 | $0.3 / $2.5 | $0.85 | 1M | Lab list price | · | Nova 2 Lite is a fast, cost-effective reasoning model for everyday workloads that can process text, images, and videos to generate text. |
DeepSeek · 1M | $0.045 | $0.3 | $0.045 / $0.3 | $0.109 | 1M | on InferenceNet (fp8) | · | DeepSeek V4.1 Flash is a sparse mixture-of-experts model from DeepSeek, and the first built on the company's Causal Encoder-Decoder (CED) architecture. |
Anthropic · 1M | $0.1 | $0.5 | $0.1 / $0.5 | $0.2 | 1M | Lab list price | · | Claude Haiku 5.5 is Anthropic's small, fast model for high-volume, cost-sensitive work such as summarization, subagents, and browser use. |
Cohere · 128K | $0.08 | Free | $0.08 / Free | $0.06 | 128K | Lab list price | · | Embed 5 Fast is the lower-latency, cost-efficient tier of Cohere's Embed 5 family of multimodal embedding models (about 1B parameters). |
Cohere · 128K | $0.12 | Free | $0.12 / Free | $0.09 | 128K | Lab list price | · | Embed 5 Pro is the higher-accuracy tier of Cohere's Embed 5 family of multimodal embedding models (about 2.4B parameters). |
About Nova Lite 1.0
Takes text, image in and returns text. First listed Dec 11, 2024. Up to 5K output tokens. Blended price $0.105 per 1M tokens at 3 input to 1 output. Model id nova-lite-v1.
Price history
List price since Dec 11, 2024, from Internet Archive snapshots of the OpenRouter catalog, then daily reads.
Questions
How much does Nova Lite 1.0 cost?
$0.06 per million input tokens and $0.24 per million output tokens.
What is the context window of Nova Lite 1.0?
300K tokens, with up to 5K tokens of output.
Where is Nova Lite 1.0 cheapest?
Of 3 routes tracked, AWS Bedrock is cheapest at $0.06 input and $0.24 output per million tokens.