Nova Lite
Nova Lite is worth evaluating for rag, long context, and vision when its provider route and context window match the workload.
Use it for
- Teams evaluating rag, long context, and vision
- Workloads that can use a 300k context window
- Buyers comparing 2 tracked provider routes
Do not use it for
- Workloads where another current model has stronger sourced task evidence
- Family
- Nova
- Released
- 2025-03-17
- Context
- 300k
- Architecture
- Decoder Only
- Specialization
- general
- Openness
- Proprietary
- License
- ProprietaryCommercial use: conditional
- Weights
- Not released
- Code
- Unknown
- Training
- Fine-tuned
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 proprietary model in the Nova family. The structured metadata tracks a 300k-token context window, multimodal input, 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.
Vision
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 |
Available via routers & gateways(1)
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.
Frequently asked questions
What is the context window of Nova Lite?
Nova Lite has a context window of 300k tokens.
How much does Nova Lite cost?
Nova Lite is available at $0.06/1M input tokens through OpenRouter.
When was Nova Lite released?
Nova Lite was released on 2025-03-17.
Which providers offer Nova Lite?
Nova Lite is available from 2 providers: OpenRouter, AWS Bedrock.
Cheapest of 2 routes · AWS Bedrock