Nova Lite Turbo: pricing, context window and benchmarks
Nova Lite Turbo is a mid-range model from Amazon. It offers a 8,192-token context window, costs $9.14 per million input tokens and $42.63 per million output tokens, and averages 73.2 across the index's benchmark suite.
Pricing
Nova Lite Turbo costs $9.14 per million input tokens and $42.63 per million output tokens. A blended 3:1 input-to-output mix works out to about $17.51 per million tokens. Cached input is listed at $1.20 per million tokens.
| Item | Price | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Input | $9.14 | per 1M tokens |
| Output | $42.63 | per 1M tokens |
| Cached input | $1.20 | per 1M tokens |
| Blended 3:1 | $17.51 | estimate per 1M tokens |
| 1M in + 1M out | $51.77 | 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 | 77.9 | 247 | 59th | |
| GPQA Diamond | 67.8 | 315 | 48th | |
| SWE-bench Verified | 63.8 | 237 | 61th | |
| HumanEval | 76.8 | 312 | 48th | |
| MATH-500 | 77.6 | 264 | 56th | |
| AIME 2025 | 68.0 | 296 | 51th | |
| LiveCodeBench | 65.7 | 282 | 53th | |
| IFEval | 79.3 | 344 | 43th | |
| TruthfulQA | 76.1 | 304 | 49th | |
| HellaSwag | 85.0 | 248 | 59th | |
| MMMU | 67.6 | 352 | 41th | |
| Arena Elo | 1383.7 | 266 | 56th |
What Nova Lite Turbo is good for
Nova Lite Turbo 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 $9.14 per million input tokens with a 8,192-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.
- Premium input pricing at $9.14 per million tokens.
- Context window of 8,192 tokens is small for long-document work.
How it compares
| Model | Provider | Context | Input / 1M | Avg score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Opus 4.5 Nano | Anthropic | 32768 | $9.38 | 73.3 |
| DBRX | Databricks | 65536 | $3.29 | 73.3 |
| Firefunction Max | Fireworks AI | 32768 | $9.12 | 73.2 |
| Gemini 3 Pro Nano | Google DeepMind | 8192 | $9.11 | 73.2 |
| Llama 3 Baseten Chat | Baseten | 200000 | $3.55 | 73.2 |
| Nova Lite Turbo | Amazon | 8192 | $9.14 | 73.2 |
FAQ
How much does Nova Lite Turbo cost?
Nova Lite Turbo is listed at $9.14 per million input tokens and $42.63 per million output tokens. Cached input is $1.20 per million tokens. A blended 3:1 input-to-output mix is about $17.51 per million tokens.
What is the context window of Nova Lite Turbo?
Nova Lite Turbo has a context window of 8,192 tokens and can emit up to 4,096 output tokens per request in this index.
Is Nova Lite Turbo open weights?
No. Nova Lite Turbo is a proprietary model with a proprietary licence, so you cannot download the weights.
How does Nova Lite Turbo score on benchmarks?
Nova Lite Turbo averages 73.2 across the scored benchmarks in this index, ranking #298 of 600 models. Its strongest relative result is Arena Elo at 1383.7.
What is Nova Lite Turbo best for?
Nova Lite Turbo 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 $9.14 per million input tokens with a 8,192-token window, check its benchmark profile against the specific task before committing.