Amazon Nova Lite
Cost-sensitive multimodal tasks on AWS Bedrock.
What are Amazon Nova Lite's specs and price?
Amazon Nova Lite, built by Amazon, ships a 300K-token context window and a 16K-token max output, released 2024-12. It supports text and vision and audio input and costs $0.11 per million blended tokens, the 2nd-cheapest of 32 models we track.
Specs
| Context window | 300K tokens |
| Max output | 16K tokens |
| Modalities | text, vision, audio |
| Extended thinking | No |
| Released | 2024-12 |
| Knowledge cutoff | 2024-10 |
| Provider | Amazon |
Verified 2026-08-08 — source.
Where it ranks
Strengths
- Budget-tier accuracy on par with other Flash/Mini models
- Lower output cost than Nova Pro
- Multimodal input included
More about Amazon Nova Lite
FAQ
What is Amazon Nova Lite's context window?
Amazon Nova Lite has a 300K-token context window and a 16K-token max output — the 15th-largest context of the 32 current models we track. Source: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/nova/latest/userguide/what-is-nova.html, verified 2026-08-08.
Does Amazon Nova Lite support vision or audio input?
Yes — Amazon Nova Lite accepts vision and audio input in addition to text.
Does Amazon Nova Lite have a reasoning or extended-thinking mode?
No — Amazon Nova Lite does not expose a separate reasoning/extended-thinking mode.
When was Amazon Nova Lite released, and what is its knowledge cutoff?
Amazon Nova Lite was released 2024-12 with a knowledge cutoff of 2024-10.
How much does Amazon Nova Lite cost, and who provides it?
Amazon Nova Lite is served by Amazon at $0.11/M blended tokens (3:1 input:output) — the 2nd-cheapest of 32 current models. Full pricing breakdown: /llm-api-pricing/nova-lite.