Nova Lite
Amazon · Active · available in 24 of 31 regions
Tool useVisionPrompt cachingBatch inferenceStreaming EmbeddingsFine-tuning
- Context window
- 300K
- 300,000 tokens
- Max output
- —
- Input / 1M
- $0.060
- us-east-1
- Output / 1M
- $0.240
What Nova Lite is good for
editorialNova Lite offers a 300K-token context window with tool use and prompt caching at $0.060 per 1M input tokens. Callable in 24 of 31 regions.
Suits
- Long documents. 300K tokens covers long documents and multi-file context without splitting them.
- Repeated prompts. Supports prompt caching, so a re-sent prefix costs about 4× less than fresh input. On agentic loops that resend a long system prompt every step, this moves the bill more than the headline price does.
- Tool use. Can call functions, so it can drive retrieval, look things up, and take actions rather than only answering.
- Images. Accepts image input: screenshots, scanned documents, charts and UI captures.
- Bulk jobs. Batch inference is available, typically at half the on-demand rate, for work that can wait — backfills, nightly enrichment, evaluation runs.
Think twice if
- No obvious disqualifiers in the published capabilities.
This section is judgement, not data from AWS. It is composed from the capabilities, context window, price position and region coverage shown elsewhere on this page — so it stays in step with the daily snapshot rather than going stale.
Where teams typically use it
Chat and assistants
Conversational work where responsiveness matters as much as depth.
- · A customer-facing assistant where the first token needs to appear in under a second.
- · An in-product copilot that explains what the user is looking at and answers follow-ups.
- · A triage bot that qualifies an incoming request before routing it to the right team.
Summarisation and extraction
High-volume, structured output from unstructured input. Usually the cheapest workload to run well.
- · Turning a million support tickets into a fixed schema of product, severity and root cause.
- · Pulling line items, totals and dates off scanned invoices into JSON.
- · Condensing every meeting transcript into decisions taken and owners assigned.
Model & inference profile IDs
Base model ID — direct on-demand invoke
Cross-region inference profiles (4)
Regions marked Inference profile only require a profile ID rather than the base model ID — invoking the base ID there returns a validation error. Regional (us., eu.) profiles carry a 10% premium over global.
Pricing by region
USD per 1M tokens| Region | Input | Output | Cache read | Cache write | Batch in | Batch out | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| us-east-1 US East (N. Virginia) | $0.060 | $0.240 | $0.015 | $0 | $0.030 | $0.120 | API |
| us-east-2 US East (Ohio) | $0.060 | $0.240 | $0.015 | $0 | $0.030 | $0.120 | API |
| us-west-1 US West (N. California) | $0.077 | $0.308 | — | — | — | — | API |
| us-west-2 US West (Oregon) | $0.060 | $0.240 | $0.015 | $0 | $0.030 | $0.120 | API |
| ca-central-1 Canada (Central) | $0.064 | $0.256 | $0.016 | $0 | $0.032 | $0.128 | API |
| eu-west-1 EU (Ireland) | $0.069 | $0.276 | $0.017 | — | $0.034 | $0.138 | API |
| eu-west-2 EU (London) | $0.084 | $0.336 | — | — | — | — | API |
| eu-west-3 EU (Paris) | $0.088 | $0.352 | $0.022 | — | $0.044 | $0.176 | API |
| eu-central-1 EU (Frankfurt) | $0.078 | $0.312 | $0.019 | — | $0.039 | $0.156 | API |
| eu-north-1 EU (Stockholm) | $0.065 | $0.260 | $0.016 | — | $0.032 | $0.130 | API |
| eu-south-1 EU (Milan) | $0.096 | $0.384 | $0.024 | — | — | — | API |
| eu-south-2 Europe (Spain) | $0.066 | $0.264 | $0.017 | — | — | — | API |
| ap-east-2 Asia Pacific (Taipei) | $0.072 | — | — | $0 | $0.036 | $0.144 | API |
| ap-northeast-1 Asia Pacific (Tokyo) | $0.072 | $0.288 | $0.018 | — | $0.036 | $0.144 | API |
| ap-northeast-2 Asia Pacific (Seoul) | $0.071 | $0.284 | $0.018 | — | $0.036 | $0.142 | API |
| ap-south-1 Asia Pacific (Mumbai) | $0.071 | $0.284 | $0.018 | — | $0.036 | $0.142 | API |
| ap-southeast-1 Asia Pacific (Singapore) | $0.081 | $0.324 | $0.020 | — | $0.041 | $0.162 | API |
| ap-southeast-2 Asia Pacific (Sydney) | $0.063 | $0.252 | $0.016 | — | $0.032 | $0.126 | API |
| ap-southeast-4 Asia Pacific (Melbourne) | $0.065 | $0.260 | $0.016 | $0 | $0.032 | $0.130 | API |
| ap-southeast-5 Asia Pacific (Malaysia) | $0.072 | $0.288 | $0.018 | — | — | — | API |
| ap-southeast-7 Asia Pacific (Thailand) | $0.072 | $0.288 | $0.018 | $0 | — | — | API |
| il-central-1 Israel (Tel Aviv) | $0.075 | $0.300 | $0.019 | $0 | $0.037 | $0.150 | API |
Region availability
On-demand us-east-1 On-demand On-demand us-east-2 On-demand Inference profile only us-west-1 Profile only On-demand us-west-2 On-demand Inference profile only ca-central-1 Profile only Inference profile only ca-west-1 Profile only Not available mx-central-1 Not available Inference profile only eu-west-1 Profile only On-demand eu-west-2 On-demand Inference profile only eu-west-3 Profile only Inference profile only eu-central-1 Profile only Not available eu-central-2 Not available On-demand eu-north-1 On-demand Inference profile only eu-south-1 Profile only Inference profile only eu-south-2 Profile only Inference profile only ap-east-2 Profile only On-demand ap-northeast-1 On-demand Inference profile only ap-northeast-2 Profile only Not available ap-northeast-3 Not available Inference profile only ap-south-1 Profile only Not available ap-south-2 Not available Inference profile only ap-southeast-1 Profile only On-demand ap-southeast-2 On-demand On-demand ap-southeast-3 On-demand Inference profile only ap-southeast-4 Profile only Inference profile only ap-southeast-5 Profile only Not available ap-southeast-6 Not available Inference profile only ap-southeast-7 Profile only Inference profile only il-central-1 Profile only Not available af-south-1 Not available Not available sa-east-1 Not available
TPM / RPM are default account quotas from AWS Service Quotas where a model-specific limit is published. They are per-account defaults and adjustable on request.
Where this model actually runs
Under a strict residency constraint, Nova Lite can be served without the request leaving 8 of the 25 jurisdictions with a Bedrock region.
Nova Lite appears in
Common questions
- How much does Nova Lite cost on Amazon Bedrock?
- $0.060 per 1M input tokens and $0.240 per 1M output tokens in us-east-1. Cached input reads at $0.015, roughly a tenth of the input rate, which dominates the bill on agentic workloads that re-send a long prefix.
- Which AWS regions support Nova Lite?
- 24 of 31 regions: us-east-1, us-east-2, us-west-1, us-west-2, ca-central-1, ca-west-1, eu-west-1, eu-west-2, eu-west-3, eu-central-1, eu-north-1, eu-south-1, eu-south-2, ap-east-2, ap-northeast-1, ap-northeast-2, ap-south-1, ap-southeast-1, ap-southeast-2, ap-southeast-3, ap-southeast-4, ap-southeast-5, ap-southeast-7, il-central-1. Regions marked profile-only need a cross-region inference profile ID such as apac.amazon.nova-lite-v1:0 rather than the bare model ID.
- What is the context window of Nova Lite?
- 300,000 tokens (300K).
- What is the model ID for Nova Lite on Bedrock?
- amazon.nova-lite-v1:0. In regions where it is only reachable through a cross-region inference profile, use a prefixed ID instead: apac.amazon.nova-lite-v1:0, ca.amazon.nova-lite-v1:0, eu.amazon.nova-lite-v1:0.