Nova Lite Max: pricing, context window and benchmarks
Nova Lite Max is a multimodal model from Amazon. It offers a 200,000-token context window, costs $9.79 per million input tokens and $35.24 per million output tokens, and averages 73.4 across the index's benchmark suite.
Pricing
Nova Lite Max costs $9.79 per million input tokens and $35.24 per million output tokens. A blended 3:1 input-to-output mix works out to about $16.15 per million tokens. Cached input is listed at $0.97 per million tokens.
| Item | Price | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Input | $9.79 | per 1M tokens |
| Output | $35.24 | per 1M tokens |
| Cached input | $0.97 | per 1M tokens |
| Blended 3:1 | $16.15 | estimate per 1M tokens |
| 1M in + 1M out | $45.03 | estimate |
Benchmarks
Scores below are modelled estimates on a 0–100 scale. Use them to compare relative position, not as official vendor results.
| Benchmark | Score | Rank | Percentile | Relative |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MMLU-Pro | 77.2 | 272 | 55th | |
| GPQA Diamond | 69.8 | 273 | 55th | |
| SWE-bench Verified | 60.3 | 322 | 46th | |
| HumanEval | 80.2 | 227 | 62th | |
| MATH-500 | 79.7 | 216 | 64th | |
| AIME 2025 | 65.8 | 333 | 45th | |
| LiveCodeBench | 65.4 | 286 | 52th | |
| IFEval | 80.4 | 325 | 46th | |
| TruthfulQA | 75.1 | 330 | 45th | |
| HellaSwag | 83.8 | 288 | 52th | |
| MMMU | 69.5 | 318 | 47th | |
| Arena Elo | 1368.3 | 325 | 46th |
What Nova Lite Max is good for
Nova Lite Max is a general-purpose model in the index. It handles text generation, summarization and question answering, and it can be a sensible default when you need a balance of quality, price and context. At $9.79 per million input tokens with a 200,000-token window, check its benchmark profile against the specific task before committing.
Strengths
- Large 200,000-token context window for long documents and agent traces.
- Accepts more than text, including image input where the provider supports it.
Trade-offs
- Proprietary licence: you cannot download the weights or self-host the model.
- Premium input pricing at $9.79 per million tokens.
How it compares
| Model | Provider | Context | Input / 1M | Avg score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GPT-5.2 Nano | OpenAI | 128000 | $9.73 | 73.5 |
| Yi-Large | 01.AI | 32768 | $3.40 | 73.5 |
| Yi-Large Chat | 01.AI | 65536 | $3.49 | 73.5 |
| Nova Lite | Amazon | 65536 | $9.20 | 73.4 |
| Nova Lite Max | Amazon | 200000 | $9.79 | 73.4 |
| Yi-Large Instruct | 01.AI | 32768 | $3.48 | 73.4 |
FAQ
How much does Nova Lite Max cost?
Nova Lite Max is listed at $9.79 per million input tokens and $35.24 per million output tokens. Cached input is $0.97 per million tokens. A blended 3:1 input-to-output mix is about $16.15 per million tokens.
What is the context window of Nova Lite Max?
Nova Lite Max has a context window of 200,000 tokens and can emit up to 16,384 output tokens per request in this index.
Is Nova Lite Max open weights?
No. Nova Lite Max is a proprietary model with a proprietary licence, so you cannot download the weights.
How does Nova Lite Max score on benchmarks?
Nova Lite Max averages 73.4 across the scored benchmarks in this index, ranking #290 of 600 models. Its strongest relative result is Arena Elo at 1368.3.
What is Nova Lite Max best for?
Nova Lite Max is a general-purpose model in the index. It handles text generation, summarization and question answering, and it can be a sensible default when you need a balance of quality, price and context. At $9.79 per million input tokens with a 200,000-token window, check its benchmark profile against the specific task before committing.