Nova Lite 1.0

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...

by Amazon

Overview

Quick stats across all benchmark runs.

Score

168 benchmarks

Avg Latency

6.8s

340 requests

Pricing

$0.06 in / $0.24 out

per 1M tokens

Context

300K

tokens

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Same Quality, Cheaper

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Model	Cost
Nova Micro 1.0	-43%

Same Quality, Faster

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Model	Latency
Nova Micro 1.0	-43%
Claude 3 Haiku	-28%

Same Cost, Better

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Model	Score
Gemini 2.0 Flash	+20%

Benchmark Performance

How this model performs across different benchmarks

Benchmark	Score	Rank
Money Boy Cultural Literacy Test	39%	67 / 107
Categorization Bench	14%	52 / 54
Explain Like I'm 5	12%	42 / 47
Niederstetten Benchmark	10%	29 / 35

Price vs Performance

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Score Over Time

Performance trends across all benchmark runs

Benchmark Activity

Number of benchmark runs over time

Quickstart

View on OpenRouter

Get started with this model using OpenRouter

import { OpenRouter } from "@openrouter/sdk";

const openrouter = new OpenRouter({
  apiKey: "<OPENROUTER_API_KEY>"
});

const completion = await openrouter.chat.completions.create({
  model: "amazon/nova-lite-v1",
  messages: [
    {
      role: "user",
      content: "Hello!"
    }
  ]
});

console.log(completion.choices[0].message.content);

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Other Models from Amazon

Compare performance with other models from the same creator

Model	Latency	Cost/1M	Score
Nova Premier 1.0	35.2s	$7.50	43%
Nova Micro 1.0	3.7s	$0.09	31%
Nova 2 Lite	13.8s	$1.40	15%
Nova Pro 1.0	13.0s	$2.00	15%