Amazon Nova Lite pricing
Amazon Nova Lite, Small-tier from Amazon (Nova), costs $0.06 per 1M input tokens and $0.24 per 1M output tokens.
Input$0.06per 1M tokens
Output$0.24per 1M tokens
Context window300Ktokens
TierSmallAmazon (Nova)
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Specs and pricing
| Provider | Amazon (Nova) |
| Tier | Small |
| Context window | 300K tokens |
| Max output | 10K tokens |
| Input price | $0.06 / 1M tokens |
| Output price | $0.24 / 1M tokens |
| Cache write | $0.00 / 1M tokens |
| Cache read | $0.015 / 1M tokens |
| Modalities | text, image |
| Released | 2024-12 |
Note. On-demand rate for US East (N. Virginia). Cache writes are billed at $0 per 1M.
What it costs at realistic volumes
Assuming a 4:1 input:output token ratio, a common shape for chat and RAG-style workloads:
| Volume (4:1 in:out ratio) | Input cost | Output cost | Total / month |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1,000,000 in / 250,000 out | $0.06 | $0.06 | $0.12 |
| 10,000,000 in / 2,500,000 out | $0.60 | $0.60 | $1.20 |
| 100,000,000 in / 25,000,000 out | $6.00 | $6.00 | $12.00 |
Cheaper alternatives
Same tier (Small), a different provider, and a lower blended cost at the 4:1 ratio used above:
| Model | Provider | $/1M in | $/1M out | At the 4:1 ratio |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-Turbo | DeepInfra | $0.02 | $0.04 | 75% cheaper blended |
| Solar Pro 4 | OpenRouter | $0.03 | $0.12 | 50% cheaper blended |
| GPT-OSS 20B | OpenRouter | $0.03 | $0.13 | 47.9% cheaper blended |
| schematron-v2-turbo | inference.net | $0.03 | $0.15 | 43.7% cheaper blended |
| Llama 3.1 8B | OpenRouter | $0.05 | $0.08 | 41.7% cheaper blended |