amazon · Efficient
Amazon Nova Lite 1.0
Amazon's new lower cost model. Can handle up to 300k input tokens, with faster output but less thorough understanding than Amazon's Nova Pro.
- Input
- Text
- Output
- Text
- Discovery tier
- Efficient
Pricing
USD per 1M tokens- Input
- $0.0595
- Output
- $0.24
Reference prices as published by the model provider. API example
Specifications
- Context window
- 300K
- Max output
- 5.1K
- Average output (7 days)
- 44 tokens
- Longer than 3% of 465 models
Side by side
Amazon Nova Lite 1.0 compared
Specifications, prices, speed and benchmark scores next to each other. Benchmarks below show every compared model too.
| Amazon Nova Lite 1.0amazonThis model | Amazon Nova Pro 1.0amazonRemove | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | amazon | amazon |
| Discovery tier | Efficient | Balanced |
| Added | Dec 3, 2024 | Dec 3, 2024 |
| Limits | ||
| Context window | 300K | 300K |
| Max output | 5.12K | 32KBest |
| Average output | 44 tokens | 56 tokens |
| Pricing, USD per 1M tokens | ||
| Input | $0.0595Best | $0.80 |
| Output | $0.24Best | $3.20 |
| Benchmark indexes | ||
| Intelligence Index | 6.7 | 7.0Best |
| Math Index | 7.0 | 7.0 |
| Capabilities | ||
| Reasoning effort | — | — |
Public evaluations
Benchmarks
Independent evaluation results, with how each score ranks among the models in the Noumen catalog.
- Amazon Nova Lite 1.0
- Amazon Nova Pro 1.0
Intelligence Index
- Amazon Nova Lite 1.06.7
- Amazon Nova Pro 1.07.0
Amazon Nova Lite 1.0: Better than 6% of 326 scored models
Indexes
Math Index
Composite of the math evaluations
- Amazon Nova Lite 1.0: 7.0Top
- Amazon Nova Pro 1.0: 7.0Top
Document reasoning
AA-LCRv1.1
Reasoning across long documents
- Amazon Nova Lite 1.0: 19.0%
- Amazon Nova Pro 1.0: 21.0%Top
Reasoning and knowledge
Humanity’s Last Exam
Expert-level questions across academic fields
- Amazon Nova Lite 1.0: 4.3%Top
- Amazon Nova Pro 1.0: 3.2%
GPQA Diamond
Graduate-level science questions
- Amazon Nova Lite 1.0: 43.3%
- Amazon Nova Pro 1.0: 49.9%Top
MMLU-Pro
Multi-subject knowledge and reasoning
- Amazon Nova Lite 1.0: 59.0%
- Amazon Nova Pro 1.0: 69.1%Top
IFBench
Following precise output instructions
- Amazon Nova Lite 1.0: 34.1%
- Amazon Nova Pro 1.0: 38.1%Top
Coding
LiveCodeBench
Recent competitive programming problems
- Amazon Nova Lite 1.0: 16.7%
- Amazon Nova Pro 1.0: 23.3%Top
Math
AIME 2025
Competition mathematics, 2025 problems
- Amazon Nova Lite 1.0: 7.0%Top
- Amazon Nova Pro 1.0: 7.0%Top
AIME
Competition mathematics
- Amazon Nova Lite 1.0: 10.7%Top
- Amazon Nova Pro 1.0: 10.7%Top
MATH-500
Competition math problems
- Amazon Nova Lite 1.0: 76.5%
- Amazon Nova Pro 1.0: 78.6%Top
Legacy evaluations
Terminal-Bench Hard
Earlier terminal task suite
- Amazon Nova Lite 1.0: 0.8%
- Amazon Nova Pro 1.0: 6.1%Top
τ²-Bench Telecom
Tool use in a customer-support simulation
- Amazon Nova Lite 1.0: 17.5%Top
- Amazon Nova Pro 1.0: 14.0%
AA-LCR (unversioned)
Long-context reasoning, earlier grading
- Amazon Nova Lite 1.0: 19.0%
- Amazon Nova Pro 1.0: 21.0%Top
Scores from Artificial Analysis, updated Oct 26, 2026. Artificial Analysis
Developers
Use it through the API
Noumen’s API is OpenAI-compatible: any Chat Completions client works with a base URL and a key.
curl https://www.noumen.xyz/api/v1/chat/completions \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $NOUMEN_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"model": "amazon/nova-lite-v1",
"messages": [{ "role": "user", "content": "Explain this stack trace." }]
}'import os
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(base_url="https://www.noumen.xyz/api/v1", api_key=os.environ["NOUMEN_API_KEY"])
reply = client.chat.completions.create(
model="amazon/nova-lite-v1",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Explain this stack trace."}],
)
print(reply.choices[0].message.content)amazon
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