Jamba Large 1.7 is the latest model in the Jamba open family, offering improvements in grounding, instruction-following, and overall efficiency. Built on a hybrid SSM-Transformer architecture with a 256K context window, it delivers more acc…
Model details →AI21: Jamba Large 1.7 vs Amazon: Nova Lite 1.0
Amazon: Nova Lite 1.0 wins on 4 of 6 axes — pricing and capability skew in its favour for most workloads.
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 can handle real-time customer interactions, document analysis, a…
Model details →Side-by-side comparison
| Capability | AI21: Jamba Large 1.7 | Amazon: Nova Lite 1.0 | Winner |
|---|---|---|---|
| Context window Maximum number of input tokens the model can attend to in a single request. | 256K | 300K | 🏆 Amazon: Nova Lite 1.0 |
| Input price (per 1M) Cost per million input tokens billed by the provider. | $2.00 | $0.06 | 🏆 Amazon: Nova Lite 1.0 |
| Output price (per 1M) Cost per million output tokens billed by the provider. | $8.00 | $0.24 | 🏆 Amazon: Nova Lite 1.0 |
| Tool / function calling First-class support for emitting structured tool calls. | Yes | Yes | Tie |
| Vision input Accepts image inputs alongside text. | — | Yes | 🏆 Amazon: Nova Lite 1.0 |
| Reasoning mode Internal chain-of-thought / extended-thinking support. | — | — | Tie |
Frequently asked questions
Is AI21: Jamba Large 1.7 better than Amazon: Nova Lite 1.0?
Amazon: Nova Lite 1.0 wins on 4 of 6 axes — pricing and capability skew in its favour for most workloads.
What's the price difference between AI21: Jamba Large 1.7 and Amazon: Nova Lite 1.0?
Input: $2.00 vs $0.06 per 1M tokens. Output: $8.00 vs $0.24 per 1M tokens.
What context windows do AI21: Jamba Large 1.7 and Amazon: Nova Lite 1.0 support?
AI21: Jamba Large 1.7 supports up to 256K tokens. Amazon: Nova Lite 1.0 supports up to 300K tokens.
Do both AI21: Jamba Large 1.7 and Amazon: Nova Lite 1.0 support tool calling?
AI21: Jamba Large 1.7: yes. Amazon: Nova Lite 1.0: yes.