Amazon
Nova Lite
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.
Providers
Reference data — not yet measured from live traffic
| PROVIDER | MAX OUT | OUTPUT /M | QUANT | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Amazon BedrockCheapest | 300K | 5K | $0.060 | $0.24 | 320ms | 190 | 99.88% | 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
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." }
]
}'