Amazon: Nova Lite 1.0✓ Catalog verified
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, and visual question-answering tasks with high accuracy. With an input context of 300K tokens, it can analyze multiple images or up to 30 minutes of video in a single input.
Overview
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, and visual question-answering tasks with high accuracy. With an input context of 300K tokens, it can analyze multiple images or up to 30 minutes of video in a single input.
Access: available through the official Amazon API. Context window: 300K.
Specifications
| API identifier | amazon/nova-lite-v1 |
| Provider | Amazon |
| Model type | Multimodal LLM |
| Context window | 300K catalog |
| Input modalities | text · image |
| Output modalities | text |
| Released | Dec 5, 2024 |
| Tokenizer | Nova |
| Moderated | Yes |
| Architecture modality | text+image->text |
Pricing
Live pricing components for amazon/nova-lite-v1 as published in the catalog.
| Pricing component | Raw unit price | Normalized | Unit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Prompt tokens | $6e-8 | $0.06 / 1M | Per input token |
| Completion tokens | $2.4e-7 | $0.24 / 1M | Per output token |
| Request fee | N/A | N/A | Per request |
| Image fee | N/A | N/A | Per image unit |
| Web search fee | N/A | N/A | Per search request |
Cost calculator
Estimate monthly spend from your own token volumes.
Estimated Total Cost
$0.08Calculated from current list pricing in the ModelsAtlas catalog.Capabilities
| Capability | Status | What it means |
|---|---|---|
| Visual Understanding | ✓ Supported | Image and document analysis support |
| Audio Processing | Not advertised | Speech and voice aligned flows |
| Tool Calling | ✓ Supported | Supports tools / function calling |
| Self-Hosting | Not advertised | Deploy outside managed APIs |
Capability signals
Directional signals derived from model metadata and capability tags — not official benchmark submissions.
Quick start
Call Amazon: Nova Lite 1.0 through an OpenAI-compatible client.
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(
base_url="https://openrouter.ai/api/v1",
api_key="YOUR_API_KEY"
)
response = client.chat.completions.create(
model="amazon/nova-lite-v1",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Explain quantum physics."}]
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)Alternatives
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Sources & attribution
Pricing and metadata are maintained in the ModelsAtlas catalog.
Frequently asked questions
How much does Amazon: Nova Lite 1.0 cost?
$0.06 per 1M input tokens and $0.24 per 1M output tokens on the official Amazon API.
What is the context window of Amazon: Nova Lite 1.0?
Amazon: Nova Lite 1.0 supports up to 300K tokens of context.
Does Amazon: Nova Lite 1.0 support tool / function calling?
Yes, Amazon: Nova Lite 1.0 supports tool / function calling — you can register tools and the model will emit structured tool calls.
How do I access Amazon: Nova Lite 1.0?
Use the official Amazon API with the model id `amazon/nova-lite-v1`. See the Quick start section above for code examples.