Amazon Nova Lite

Amazon Nova Lite is a efficient-tier language model from FastInfra. Amazon Nova Lite is a proprietary model available exclusively through FastInfra's API. Amazon Nova is AWS's proprietary model family, tightly integrated with the Bedrock platform — optimized for enterprise AWS workloads with strong multimodal support and competitive pricing.

Amazon Nova Lite is priced at $0.06/1M input tokens and $0.25/1M output tokens. Output tokens are 4.2× more expensive than input tokens — this ratio reflects the sequential nature of autoregressive generation, which requires a separate forward pass per output token versus parallel processing of all input tokens simultaneously. At a typical usage pattern of 1,000 input tokens and 500 output tokens per call, Amazon Nova Lite costs approximately $0.18 per 1,000 API calls. FastInfra does not publish a prompt caching rate for this model, so repeated long contexts are billed at the standard $0.06/1M input rate.

Its 300K-token context window is in the top tier for production models, enabling full-document analysis, long multi-turn conversations, and large codebase understanding without chunking.

Amazon Nova Lite is best suited to cost, speed, multimodal. Supported capabilities include vision inputs (images alongside text), function calling / tool use for agentic workflows, streaming token output for real-time UIs. Vision support enables document analysis, screenshot understanding, diagram interpretation, and visual question answering — images are converted to tokens at the standard input rate based on resolution. Function calling support makes it suitable for building AI agents, structured data extraction pipelines, and any workflow requiring the model to invoke external APIs or return typed JSON. When evaluating this model for a specific workload, the most important factors are: context window (does your input fit?), output price (how long are your generations?), and latency (is this interactive or batch?). The pricing table above shows how Amazon Nova Lite compares to similar models across these dimensions.

Amazon Nova Lite sits in the efficient tier — optimized for speed and cost while maintaining solid quality, ideal for high-volume or latency-sensitive workloads. Unlike open-weights alternatives, Amazon Nova Lite is only available via FastInfra's API — there is no self-hosted option, which simplifies deployment but creates vendor dependency. When comparing Amazon Nova Lite to alternatives, use the similar models section on this page to find models at comparable price points with different capability tradeoffs. The intelligence score (N/A/100) reflects aggregate benchmark performance — a useful proxy for general capability, though real-world performance varies significantly by task type. Always test with your specific prompts and use case before committing to a model for production.