Nova Lite Mini: pricing, context window and benchmarks
Nova Lite Mini is a mid-range model from Amazon. It offers a 16,384-token context window, costs $5.43 per million input tokens and $22.48 per million output tokens, and averages 65.0 across the index's benchmark suite.
Pricing
Nova Lite Mini costs $5.43 per million input tokens and $22.48 per million output tokens. A blended 3:1 input-to-output mix works out to about $9.69 per million tokens. Cached input is listed at $0.67 per million tokens.
| Item | Price | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Input | $5.43 | per 1M tokens |
| Output | $22.48 | per 1M tokens |
| Cached input | $0.67 | per 1M tokens |
| Blended 3:1 | $9.69 | estimate per 1M tokens |
| 1M in + 1M out | $27.91 | 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 | 68.1 | 416 | 31th | |
| GPQA Diamond | 61.4 | 396 | 34th | |
| SWE-bench Verified | 52.6 | 400 | 33th | |
| HumanEval | 68.1 | 412 | 31th | |
| MATH-500 | 67.2 | 405 | 33th | |
| AIME 2025 | 59.1 | 394 | 34th | |
| LiveCodeBench | 55.0 | 407 | 32th | |
| IFEval | 75.9 | 391 | 35th | |
| TruthfulQA | 67.1 | 428 | 29th | |
| HellaSwag | 78.8 | 393 | 35th | |
| MMMU | 62.1 | 409 | 32th | |
| Arena Elo | 1317.2 | 398 | 34th |
What Nova Lite Mini is good for
Nova Lite Mini 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 $5.43 per million input tokens with a 16,384-token window, check its benchmark profile against the specific task before committing.
Strengths
- 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.
- Context window of 16,384 tokens is small for long-document work.
- Average benchmark score is below the index median; test it on your own task.
How it compares
| Model | Provider | Context | Input / 1M | Avg score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| StableLM 2 Instruct | Stability AI | 16384 | $1.93 | 65.2 |
| Reka Core Nano | Reka AI | 16384 | $5.45 | 65.1 |
| Molmo Base | Allen Institute for AI | 4096 | $2.02 | 65.0 |
| Nemotron Nano Base | NVIDIA | 8192 | $1.85 | 65.0 |
| Nova Lite Mini | Amazon | 16384 | $5.43 | 65.0 |
| StableLM 2 | Stability AI | 8192 | $1.91 | 65.0 |
FAQ
How much does Nova Lite Mini cost?
Nova Lite Mini is listed at $5.43 per million input tokens and $22.48 per million output tokens. Cached input is $0.67 per million tokens. A blended 3:1 input-to-output mix is about $9.69 per million tokens.
What is the context window of Nova Lite Mini?
Nova Lite Mini has a context window of 16,384 tokens and can emit up to 4,096 output tokens per request in this index.
Is Nova Lite Mini open weights?
No. Nova Lite Mini is a proprietary model with a proprietary licence, so you cannot download the weights.
How does Nova Lite Mini score on benchmarks?
Nova Lite Mini averages 65.0 across the scored benchmarks in this index, ranking #405 of 600 models. Its strongest relative result is Arena Elo at 1317.2.
What is Nova Lite Mini best for?
Nova Lite Mini 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 $5.43 per million input tokens with a 16,384-token window, check its benchmark profile against the specific task before committing.