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Amazon Nova Lite from Amazon costs $0.060 per 1 million input tokens and $0.240 per 1 million output tokens as of June 2026 (live OpenRouter data). The model supports a 300,000-token context window (approximately 225,000 words) with a 5K-token maximum output. A typical 1,000-token request costs $0.0001 in input charges; a 10,000-token request costs $0.0006.

Amazon Nova Lite pricing and capability summary
Input price$0.060 / 1M tokens
Output price$0.240 / 1M tokens
Output / input ratio4.0×
Context window300,000 tokens (~225,000 words)
Maximum output5,120 tokens
Cost per 1K tokens (input)$0.0001
TierFast
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Amazon Nova Lite is a very cheap multimodal model from AWS — $0.06/1M input with a 300K context window and image understanding. Excellent for AWS-native high-volume pipelines.

Live pricing from OpenRouter

Input Price

$0.060

per 1 million tokens

Output Price

$0.240

per 1 million tokens

Context Window

300K tokens

max 5K output

Cost Examples

Request TypeTokensInput CostOutput Cost
1,000 word article1,333$0.00008$0.000096
10-page document (2,500 words)3,333$0.0002$0.00024
1,000 lines of code5,000$0.0003$0.00036
100K token document100,000$0.006$0.0072

Output cost estimated at 30% of input token count. Use the calculator for exact figures.

Strengths

  • Very cheap at $0.06/1M input
  • 300K context
  • Multimodal
  • AWS Bedrock native

Limitations

  • Weaker than Nova Pro on complex tasks
  • AWS-centric

Best Use Cases

High-volume AWS pipelines
Budget multimodal on Bedrock
Document extraction at scale

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