Nova Lite (EU)

Nova Lite sits in the middle of Amazon's Nova family as a cost-oriented multimodal model that pairs text understanding with image and video perception. It accepts documents, charts, images, and up to thirty minutes of video in a single request, and supports multi-turn interactions, retrieval-augmented generation workflows, and agentic applications that blend language with visual reasoning. Compared to the text-only Nova Micro tier, Nova Lite's distinguishing contribution is this native vision and video capability, which makes it a practical choice for document analysis and visual question answering without moving up to the higher-capacity Pro model.

For automation, Nova Lite offers prompt caching and function calling, allowing reliable tool use and repeated-query efficiency in production pipelines. It draws on the broader Nova family's broad language coverage, handling content in over two hundred languages with strong performance across major global languages. The combination of a large context window, multimodal grounding, tool integration, and broad linguistic reach makes it well suited for budget-sensitive deployments that still need to interpret mixed media and orchestrate tool-based workflows.