Nova Lite Nano: pricing, context window and benchmarks
Nova Lite Nano is a mid-range model from Amazon. It offers a 8,192-token context window, costs $3.29 per million input tokens and $14.03 per million output tokens, and averages 59.5 across the index's benchmark suite.
Pricing
Nova Lite Nano costs $3.29 per million input tokens and $14.03 per million output tokens. A blended 3:1 input-to-output mix works out to about $5.97 per million tokens. Cached input is listed at $0.49 per million tokens.
| Item | Price | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Input | $3.29 | per 1M tokens |
| Output | $14.03 | per 1M tokens |
| Cached input | $0.49 | per 1M tokens |
| Blended 3:1 | $5.97 | estimate per 1M tokens |
| 1M in + 1M out | $17.32 | 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 | 66.4 | 433 | 28th | |
| GPQA Diamond | 57.0 | 441 | 27th | |
| SWE-bench Verified | 47.8 | 439 | 27th | |
| HumanEval | 60.1 | 504 | 16th | |
| MATH-500 | 60.5 | 454 | 24th | |
| AIME 2025 | 48.1 | 469 | 22th | |
| LiveCodeBench | 49.8 | 450 | 25th | |
| IFEval | 67.6 | 493 | 18th | |
| TruthfulQA | 66.5 | 437 | 27th | |
| HellaSwag | 75.1 | 439 | 27th | |
| MMMU | 56.0 | 489 | 19th | |
| Arena Elo | 1274.7 | 453 | 25th |
What Nova Lite Nano is good for
Nova Lite Nano 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 $3.29 per million input tokens with a 8,192-token window, check its benchmark profile against the specific task before committing.
Strengths
- Input price of $3.29 per million tokens is at or below the index median.
Trade-offs
- Proprietary licence: you cannot download the weights or self-host the model.
- Context window of 8,192 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Qwen3-Coder 7B | Alibaba Cloud | 32768 | $1.24 | 59.6 |
| Llama 3.3 Groq 8B | Groq | 16384 | $1.17 | 59.5 |
| MiniMax-Text 8B | MiniMax | 4096 | $1.22 | 59.5 |
| Nova Lite Nano | Amazon | 8192 | $3.29 | 59.5 |
| QwQ 8B | Alibaba Cloud | 16384 | $1.37 | 59.5 |
| Zephyr Base | Hugging Face | 4096 | $1.26 | 59.5 |
FAQ
How much does Nova Lite Nano cost?
Nova Lite Nano is listed at $3.29 per million input tokens and $14.03 per million output tokens. Cached input is $0.49 per million tokens. A blended 3:1 input-to-output mix is about $5.97 per million tokens.
What is the context window of Nova Lite Nano?
Nova Lite Nano has a context window of 8,192 tokens and can emit up to 8,192 output tokens per request in this index.
Is Nova Lite Nano open weights?
No. Nova Lite Nano is a proprietary model with a proprietary licence, so you cannot download the weights.
How does Nova Lite Nano score on benchmarks?
Nova Lite Nano averages 59.5 across the scored benchmarks in this index, ranking #460 of 600 models. Its strongest relative result is Arena Elo at 1274.7.
What is Nova Lite Nano best for?
Nova Lite Nano 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 $3.29 per million input tokens with a 8,192-token window, check its benchmark profile against the specific task before committing.