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Amazon Nova Lite

Amazon's low-cost multimodal Nova Lite for fast image, video, and text processing on AWS Bedrock.

ActiveReleased December 5, 2024Knowledge cutoff October 1, 2024Available from 2 providers
Tool callingCan invoke external tools and APIs (function calling) mid-response.Structured outputCan return JSON or schema-constrained responses instead of free text.ReasoningUses extended thinking / chain-of-thought for harder multi-step problems.Effort controlLets you dial thinking depth (low / medium / high) to trade cost for quality.Fine-tuningSupports training a custom variant on your own data (vendor fine-tune API or self-hosted open weights).

Source: Amazon Nova pricing, Amazon Bedrock pricing, Amazon Nova overview

Price per 1M tokens
$0.06 in / $0.24 out
Context window300,000
Max output5,000
Batch discount-50%
ModalitiesText, Image, Video → Text
Priced across2 providers

Pricing

Every billing leg from the live catalog, in USD per 1M tokens.

Billing legRateBatch
Input$0.06 / M$0.03 / M
Output$0.24 / M$0.12 / M

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Billing-grade math over the rate card above, including the thinking tokens most estimates miss.

Estimated monthly cost
$16.80
at current list prices
Fresh input$12.00
Output$4.80
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Compare providers

The same model, priced across every platform that serves it. Lowest combined in/out rate is flagged.

PlatformInput / MOutput / MBatchAccess
AWS Bedrock
$0.06$0.24✓Direct
AWS Bedrock · Regional
from$0.06$0.24✓Direct

Regional deployments are priced per region; the lowest available region rate is shown.

Price history

Has this model gotten cheaper or more expensive?

EffectiveInput / OutputStatus
May 6, 2026 – July 10, 2026$0.06 / $0.24past
July 10, 2026$0.06 / $0.24current

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