Nova Lite 1.0
by Amazon · amazon/nova-lite-v1 · #30 cheapest of 325 paid models
Prices updated Jul 22, 2026, 1:40 AM UTC · refreshed hourly
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...
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Pricing
Input
$0.06
per 1M tokens
Output
$0.24
per 1M tokens
Blended (3:1)
$0.105
3 input : 1 output
Cache read
—
per 1M cached tokens
Cache write
—
per 1M tokens
Cache & batch economics
Effective prices for Nova Lite 1.0 (no cache-read rate published — hits billed as normal input).
| Cache hit rate | Effective blended $/1M | Example request* | vs no cache |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0% | $0.105 | $0.00636 | — |
| 50% | $0.105 | $0.00636 | −0% |
| 90% | $0.105 | $0.00636 | −0% |
*Example: 100K sticky context + 2K new input + 1K output. Batch discount is an approximate 50% off list rates (available for OpenAI / Anthropic / Google — not flagged for this creator). Confirm on the vendor’s pricing page.
What a request costs
| Workload | Input tokens | Output tokens | Cost / request | Cost / 1K requests |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Short chat message | 500 | 300 | $0.000102 | $0.102 |
| Document summary | 8,000 | 1,000 | $0.00072 | $0.72 |
| Codebase question (RAG) | 30,000 | 2,000 | $0.00228 | $2.28 |
| Long-context analysis | 150,000 | 5,000 | $0.0102 | $10.20 |
Specs
Context window
300K
tokens
Max output
5K
tokens
Input modalities
text, image
Tokenizer
Nova