Amazon

Nova Lite

300K ctxTextImage Tools

Released Dec 3, 2024 · 26B tokens this week · 1 provider

Overview

A very low-cost multimodal Nova for high-volume document and image workloads. Trades depth for throughput and price. Useful for first-pass extraction before a stronger model reviews the hard cases.

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Providers

Reference data — not yet measured from live traffic

PROVIDERMAX OUTOUTPUT /MQUANT
Amazon BedrockCheapest
300K5K$0.060$0.24320ms19099.88%Full

Latency p50 reflects a provider’s API endpoint responsiveness — the round-trip to its API, not per-token inference time. These figures, with throughput and uptime, are reference data until the gateway aggregates its own traffic.

Price comparison

Blended $ per 1M tokens

Nova Lite$0.20
GPT-5.2$10.94

Blended rate per 1M tokens, weighted one part prompt to three parts completion — roughly the shape of a chat workload. Your mix will move the number.

Call it

OpenAI-compatible — swap the base URL and go

curl https://model.cards/api/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $MODELCARDS_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "amazon/nova-lite-v1",
    "messages": [
      { "role": "user", "content": "Summarize the tradeoffs of speculative decoding." }
    ]
  }'