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Amazon: Nova Lite 1.0 pricing

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 1.0 from OpenRouter costs $0.060 per 1M input tokens and $0.240 per 1M output tokens. Context window 300,000 tokens.

API id amazon/nova-lite-v1 · OpenRouter · source · updated 2026-09-25 · general-purpose

$0.060
Input / 1M tokens
$0.240
Output / 1M tokens
—
Cached input / 1M
300K
Context window

Amazon: Nova Lite 1.0 specifications

Provider
OpenRouter
API id
amazon/nova-lite-v1
Model type
general-purpose
Context window
300K tokens
Max output
5K tokens
Currency
USD
Price source
Provider API
Last checked
2026-09-25

Tags

  • fast
  • vision

What Amazon: Nova Lite 1.0 costs in practice

Estimated cost at common usage volumes
WorkloadInput tokensOutput tokensEstimated cost
Short chat turn1,000500$0.0002
Document summary50,0002,000$0.0035
1M tokens in, 200K out1,000,000200,000$0.11

Estimates use the standard tier and ignore caching discounts, so real bills with repeated prompt prefixes are typically lower.

Common questions

How much does Amazon: Nova Lite 1.0 cost per 1M tokens?
Amazon: Nova Lite 1.0 costs $0.060 per 1M input tokens and $0.240 per 1M output tokens on the standard tier.
What is Amazon: Nova Lite 1.0's context window?
Amazon: Nova Lite 1.0 accepts up to 300,000 tokens in a single request, and can return up to 5,120 output tokens.
Is there a cheaper OpenRouter model than Amazon: Nova Lite 1.0?
Yes. Mistral: Mistral Nemo is $0.019 per 1M input tokens versus $0.060 for Amazon: Nova Lite 1.0, with a 131,072 token context window.
Where does this Amazon: Nova Lite 1.0 price come from?
From the OpenRouter catalogue, because OpenRouter does not publish machine-readable pricing. OpenRouter is a reseller, so its rate can differ from OpenRouter's own — verify before committing spend.

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