Nova Lite Pro: pricing, context window and benchmarks
Nova Lite Pro is a multimodal model from Amazon. It offers a 200,000-token context window, costs $9.69 per million input tokens and $46.58 per million output tokens, and averages 74.1 across the index's benchmark suite.
Pricing
Nova Lite Pro costs $9.69 per million input tokens and $46.58 per million output tokens. A blended 3:1 input-to-output mix works out to about $18.91 per million tokens. Cached input is listed at $0.80 per million tokens.
| Item | Price | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Input | $9.69 | per 1M tokens |
| Output | $46.58 | per 1M tokens |
| Cached input | $0.80 | per 1M tokens |
| Blended 3:1 | $18.91 | estimate per 1M tokens |
| 1M in + 1M out | $56.27 | 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 | 76.3 | 297 | 51th | |
| GPQA Diamond | 67.3 | 326 | 46th | |
| SWE-bench Verified | 61.8 | 286 | 52th | |
| HumanEval | 76.6 | 317 | 47th | |
| MATH-500 | 78.8 | 242 | 60th | |
| AIME 2025 | 69.6 | 266 | 56th | |
| LiveCodeBench | 68.6 | 215 | 64th | |
| IFEval | 83.3 | 238 | 60th | |
| TruthfulQA | 77.8 | 259 | 57th | |
| HellaSwag | 82.3 | 342 | 43th | |
| MMMU | 73.2 | 213 | 65th | |
| Arena Elo | 1378.7 | 277 | 54th |
What Nova Lite Pro is good for
Nova Lite Pro 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 $9.69 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 $9.69 per million tokens.
How it compares
| Model | Provider | Context | Input / 1M | Avg score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DeepSeek-Coder Base | DeepSeek | 32768 | $3.53 | 74.1 |
| GPT-5.1 Nano | OpenAI | 32768 | $9.56 | 74.1 |
| Gemma 3 Instruct | Google DeepMind | 128000 | $3.72 | 74.1 |
| Nova Lite Pro | Amazon | 200000 | $9.69 | 74.1 |
| QwQ Base | Alibaba Cloud | 65536 | $3.68 | 74.1 |
| Reka Flash | Reka AI | 128000 | $9.95 | 74.1 |
FAQ
How much does Nova Lite Pro cost?
Nova Lite Pro is listed at $9.69 per million input tokens and $46.58 per million output tokens. Cached input is $0.80 per million tokens. A blended 3:1 input-to-output mix is about $18.91 per million tokens.
What is the context window of Nova Lite Pro?
Nova Lite Pro has a context window of 200,000 tokens and can emit up to 32,768 output tokens per request in this index.
Is Nova Lite Pro open weights?
No. Nova Lite Pro is a proprietary model with a proprietary licence, so you cannot download the weights.
How does Nova Lite Pro score on benchmarks?
Nova Lite Pro averages 74.1 across the scored benchmarks in this index, ranking #275 of 600 models. Its strongest relative result is Arena Elo at 1378.7.
What is Nova Lite Pro best for?
Nova Lite Pro 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 $9.69 per million input tokens with a 200,000-token window, check its benchmark profile against the specific task before committing.