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GPT-5.6 Sol vs Nova Lite on Amazon Bedrock

In us-east-1, Nova Lite costs $0.060 per 1M input tokens against $4.00 — a 66.7× difference. Prices, context, capabilities and region coverage below.

GPT-5.6 Sol OpenAI
openai.gpt-5.6-sol
Input / 1M
$4.00
Output / 1M
$20.00
Context
1M
Est. / month
$4,680
Nova Lite Amazon
amazon.nova-lite-v1:0
Input / 1M
$0.060
Output / 1M
$0.240
Context
300K
Est. / month
$64.80

Capabilities

Capability GPT-5.6 Sol Nova Lite
Tool use ✓ ✓
Vision ✓ ✓
Prompt caching ✓ ✓
Batch inference — ✓
Streaming ✓ ✓

Region availability

Region GPT-5.6 Sol Nova Lite
us-east-1 US East (N. Virginia) Inference profile only On-demand
us-east-2 US East (Ohio) Inference profile only On-demand
us-west-1 US West (N. California) Inference profile only Inference profile only
us-west-2 US West (Oregon) Inference profile only On-demand
ca-central-1 Canada (Central) Inference profile only Inference profile only
ca-west-1 Canada West (Calgary) Inference profile only Inference profile only
eu-west-1 EU (Ireland) Inference profile only Inference profile only
eu-west-2 EU (London) Inference profile only On-demand
eu-west-3 EU (Paris) Inference profile only Inference profile only
eu-central-1 EU (Frankfurt) Inference profile only Inference profile only
eu-central-2 Europe (Zurich) Inference profile only Not available
eu-north-1 EU (Stockholm) Inference profile only On-demand
eu-south-1 EU (Milan) Inference profile only Inference profile only
eu-south-2 Europe (Spain) Inference profile only Inference profile only
ap-east-2 Asia Pacific (Taipei) Inference profile only Inference profile only
ap-northeast-1 Asia Pacific (Tokyo) Inference profile only On-demand
ap-northeast-2 Asia Pacific (Seoul) Inference profile only Inference profile only
ap-northeast-3 Asia Pacific (Osaka) Inference profile only Not available
ap-south-1 Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Inference profile only Inference profile only
ap-south-2 Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) Inference profile only Not available
ap-southeast-1 Asia Pacific (Singapore) Inference profile only Inference profile only
ap-southeast-2 Asia Pacific (Sydney) Inference profile only On-demand
ap-southeast-3 Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Inference profile only On-demand
ap-southeast-4 Asia Pacific (Melbourne) Inference profile only Inference profile only
ap-southeast-5 Asia Pacific (Malaysia) Inference profile only Inference profile only
ap-southeast-7 Asia Pacific (Thailand) Inference profile only Inference profile only
il-central-1 Israel (Tel Aviv) Inference profile only Inference profile only
sa-east-1 South America (Sao Paulo) Inference profile only Not available

24 of 31 regions support both models.

Common questions

Is GPT-5.6 Sol or Nova Lite cheaper on Amazon Bedrock?
Nova Lite is cheaper on input tokens: $0.060 against $4.00 per 1M in us-east-1, a 66.7× difference. At 2,000 runs a day with 12,000 input and 1,500 output tokens each, that is $64.80 against $4,680 a month before any caching or batch discount.
Does GPT-5.6 Sol or Nova Lite have the larger context window?
GPT-5.6 Sol, at 1M tokens against 300K.
Which regions support GPT-5.6 Sol and Nova Lite?
GPT-5.6 Sol runs in 28 of the 31 AWS regions tracked here and Nova Lite in 24. 24 regions support both, so a workload that may switch between them should target one of those.
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