Nova Lite 1.0
Amazon · released Dec 5, 2024
- Type
- Closed
- Input
- None held
- Output
- None held
- Cached
- None held
We don't hold a list price for this model yet · hosted only — we have no record of published weights
Our take
Written Sep 3, 2026Nova Lite is Amazon's proprietary text-and-image model that can handle up to 300,000 tokens in a single request. Its coding score is the strongest of its six measured skills, while creative writing lags behind.
Pick this for long-document analysis at 300,000 tokens, or image-to-text tasks where proprietary hosting is acceptable. Use it when you want consistent pricing across every offer. Skip it if you need frontier-level creative writing, or if you want open weights you can run yourself.
The case for it
- Largest context window in its measured price tier, at 300,000 tokens.
- Coding is its strongest measured skill, 45.6 points above its overall text score.
- One Amazon Bedrock endpoint delivers 83.5 tokens per second.
The case against it
- Creative writing is its weakest measured skill, 39.9 points below its overall text score.
- The slower Bedrock endpoint runs at 12 tokens per second for the same price — seven times slower with no discount.
- No standard benchmark scores beyond Arena; no MMLU, HumanEval or similar suites.
How good is it?
A general text model for chat and light tasks, though it trails most models on everyday questions, writing and code.
- getting answers to everyday questionsArena Text (overall) · 158th of 168
- drafts, rewrites and editingArena Creative Writing · 156th of 168
- writing and completing codeArena Coding · 156th of 168
EverydayGeneral questions and everyday reasoning
Arena Text (overall)158th of 168 · 1260
CodingWriting and fixing code on its own
Arena Coding156th of 168 · 1306
Arena Coding is the only board that has scored it for this.
AgenticPlanning, calling tools, staying on task
Not yet scored on Arena Agent.
WritingDrafting and rewriting prose
Arena Creative Writing156th of 168 · 1221
Arena Creative Writing is the only board that has scored it for this.
These tests check whether a model follows instructions — a precondition for all the work above, but not a measure of how well that work is done.
Every published score for this model6 scoresEvery figure we hold, from 6 boards, with who ran it and a link to the source — including the boards no rating above is built on.
Where to rent it
Prices checked 2 hours ago — each listing carries its own date.
- per 1M tokens
- $0.060 in / $0.24 out
- Context served
- 300K
- Throughput
- ~29 tok/s
| Provider | In / out per 1M tokens | Context | Throughput | Trains on prompts | Logs prompts | Zero retention |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenRouterOpenRouter's own listing | $0.060 / $0.24checked 2 hours ago | 300K | not measured | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown |
| Amazon Bedrockeu-west-1Through OpenRouter | $0.060 / $0.24checked 2 hours ago | 300K5K max reply | 31 tok/s | No | No | Confirmed |
| Amazon BedrockThrough OpenRouter | $0.060 / $0.24checked 2 hours ago | 300K5K max reply | 29 tok/s | No | No | Confirmed |
OpenRouterAcross the 3 listings we hold: 2 say they do not train on prompts, 0 say they do and 1 does not say. 2 appear in the zero-retention registry we check; the rest are unknown to us.
What each host's API supports
From the parameter list each endpoint publishes. Streaming is omitted: nothing we hold reports it, for any model.
| Provider | Tool calling | JSON output | Strict schema |
|---|---|---|---|
| OpenRouterOpenRouter's own listing | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Amazon Bedrockeu-west-1Through OpenRouter | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Amazon BedrockThrough OpenRouter | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
Tool calling: 3 of 3 listings say yes. JSON output: 0 of 3 listings say yes, 3 say no. Strict schema: 0 of 3 listings say yes, 3 say no.
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When we formed this view
Recent changes
What moved
first indexed by our pipelineEach date is the day we first saw the change, or the day the maker announced it.
What we do not know about this model yet
- Nothing we hold says whether an endpoint streams, so we do not show it either way.
- 1 of 3 listings does not say whether it trains on prompts.
- We don't hold a list price for this model yet — the gap is ours, not the lab's.
- We hold no cached-input rate for any of its listings.
- We hold no batch or off-peak rate for any of its listings.
Licence and identifiers
What the licence allowsWe hold no licence record for this model. Inside are the identifiers you need to pull it — its Hugging Face repo where we have one, our slug and a machine-readable card.
Licence
We hold no licence record for this model, and no record of published weights either — so we can neither summarise its terms nor point you at the weights.
Identifiers
- Takes in, gives back
- Text and images in, text out
- Catalogue slug
- amazon-nova-lite-1-0