Nova Lite
Nova Lite is worth evaluating for rag, long context, and classification when its provider route and context window match the workload.
Use it for
- Teams evaluating rag, long context, and classification
- Workloads that can use a 300k context window
- Buyers comparing 2 tracked provider routes
Do not use it for
- Vision or document-understanding workloads
- Family
- Nova
- Released
- 2025-03-17
- Context
- 300k
- Architecture
- Decoder Only
- Specialization
- general
- Training
- finetuned
Cheapest of 2 routes · AWS Bedrock
About
Nova Lite is Amazon's Nova model. It offers a 300K-token context window.
Nova Lite is a model in the Nova family. The structured metadata tracks a 300k-token context window and structured outputs. This page tracks provider routes through OpenRouter and AWS Bedrock, with the cheapest tracked route listed at $0.06 input and $0.24 output per 1M tokens. No headline benchmark score is tracked for Nova Lite yet.
Top use-case fit
RAG
Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.
Long context
Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.
Classification
Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.
Provider price ladder
Compare all 2Compare API pricing across 2 providers for input and output tokens, batch, and cached reads when available.
| Provider | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Route |
|---|---|---|---|
| AWS Bedrock | $0.060 | $0.240 | Serverless |
| OpenRouter | $0.060 | $0.240 | Serverless |
Capabilities
Benchmark peer barsfor RAG
No task-mapped benchmark peers are available for this model yet.
Migration checks
No linked migration route is available for this model yet.