Nova Lite 1.0 API Pricing
Amazon · context window 300K · prices updated 2026-09-15
Where Nova Lite 1.0 sits on price
At $0.24 per million output tokens, Nova Lite 1.0 is a budget tier model — 8.7× cheaper than the median output price of $2.08, which puts it in the cheapest 10% of everything we track. It sits 2th cheapest of the 5 Amazon models we track. Output costs 4.0× input, the usual spread — trim both, starting with the answer length.
What real workloads cost on Nova Lite 1.0
These three workloads are the ones teams actually run on a budget-priced model — a $0.24/1M model is not bought for the same job as one ten times the price.
| Workload | Per request | Per month |
|---|---|---|
| High-volume classification — 200K requests/day (400 in / 20 out) Short output, huge volume: the input price dominates the bill. | $0 | $173 |
| Small app — 1K requests/day (500 in / 150 out) The baseline most side projects actually run at. | $0.0001 | $1.98 |
| Document pipeline — 10K docs/day (3K in / 500 out) Batch-friendly: no user waiting, so a ~50% batch discount usually applies. | $0.0003 | $90.00 |
Model your exact traffic in the API cost calculator — it preloads Nova Lite 1.0 with caching and batch options.
Nova Lite 1.0 price history
Nova Lite 1.0's price has not moved since we began tracking it on Aug 2, 2026 — 44 days of stability in a market where 78 of the 334 models we track have repriced over the same period. Amazon's lineup has held steady across the board.
Change-points from our daily price snapshots (tracking since Aug 2, 2026; intraday moves between snapshots are not captured).
Nova Lite 1.0 vs Qwen3 14B
The closest-priced alternative from another vendor is Qwen3 14B (Alibaba (Qwen)) — priced within a rounding error on output, with $0.06 more per million input tokens. When two models land this close on price, the decision is quality on your own workload, not the price sheet: run 50 real requests through both and compare.
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Frequently asked questions
› How much does the Nova Lite 1.0 API cost?
Nova Lite 1.0 costs $0.06 per million input tokens and $0.24 per million output tokens and no discounted cached-input tier. That works out to roughly 4,166,667 output tokens per dollar.
› What does the high-volume classification workload cost on Nova Lite 1.0?
High-volume classification — 200K requests/day (400 in / 20 out) costs about $0 per request and $173 per month on Nova Lite 1.0. Short output, huge volume: the input price dominates the bill.
› What does it cost to fill Nova Lite 1.0's 300K context window?
Sending 300K of input in a single request costs $0.018 at $0.06 per million tokens — before any output. There is no cached-input tier on this model, so every repeat of that context is billed at full price. This is why large context windows are cheap to advertise and expensive to actually use.
› Is Nova Lite 1.0 worth the price?
Nova Lite 1.0 is in the cheapest end of the market — cheaper than 90% of the models we track. At this price the question is not cost but capability: it is a good fit for classification, extraction, routing and bulk summarisation, and a poor fit for multi-step reasoning where a wrong answer costs more than the tokens saved.