Nova Lite 1.0

Amazon Nova Lite 1.0 is positioned as a very low-cost multimodal model focused on fast processing of image, video, and text inputs, producing text output. The Model Radar entry frames it as an accessible option for cross-modal work, where short visual and textual prompts need to be interpreted quickly without driving up cost. Its broad input coverage combined with text-only generation makes it suitable for assistants and pipelines that ingest mixed media but only need language-style replies in return.

The model's practical profile is shaped by its inference configuration: a very large context window paired with a modest per-request completion ceiling, and a parameter set that includes standard sampling controls plus tool support. That combination favors workflows that pull in long documents or many frames for analysis while keeping individual generations compact, which is consistent with high-volume, latency-sensitive deployments rather than deep, open-ended generation tasks.

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Provider: OpenRouter
Model key: amazon/nova-lite-v1
Release date: Dec 5, 2024
Last updated: Dec 5, 2024
Knowledge cutoff: 2024-10-31
Input modalities
Output modalities
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Cost

Input token cost: $0.06
Output token cost: $0.24

Limits

Output tokens: 5,120 tokens
Context window: 300,000 tokens

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CoverageBenchmark

Kendr's evidence profile for Nova Lite 1.0 (model ID amazon/nova-lite-v1) records Amazon as the model developer, a 300,000-token context window, multimodal inputs (text and image), a knowledge cutoff of October 31, 2024, and support for text generation, tool calling, and vision. The page explicitly states that the prof The profile was first cataloged on December 5, 2024 and refreshed as part of the September 6, 2026 catalog snapshot, so it reflects Amazon-published facts about the model without inferring fields the model card does not state. Because it is a third-party directory page rather than a first-party Amazon or Amazon Bedrock

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CoverageBenchmark

BenchmarkList publishes a dedicated evaluation page for Nova Lite 1.0 (model ID amazon-nova-lite-v1) that aggregates independent benchmark results from Artificial Analysis and other harnesses, dated as recently as June 10, 2026. On agentic suites Nova Lite 1.0 ranks near the bottom of its peer group: 21st percentile on Because the benchmark numbers are drawn from a third-party aggregator rather than an Amazon first-party release note, the page is best treated as independent corroboration of Nova Lite 1.0's capability tier and cost position rather than as a primary technical announcement. The visible excerpt is partially truncated, so