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Amazon Nova Lite API: Endpoint & Pricing

Call Amazon Nova Lite through LLM.API when you want Amazon-family text generation with unified auth, provider choice, and production-friendly defaults.

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What is Amazon Nova Lite?

Amazon Nova Lite belongs to the Amazon family and is offered as a hosted chat endpoint. nova-lite provided by aws-bedrock. It is wired for API access through LLM.API with OpenAI-compatible patterns. Through LLM.API you keep one base URL while selecting this model for assistants, tools, and content workflows.

Can you self-host Amazon Nova Lite?

No. We found no public weights for Amazon Nova Lite on Hugging Face, so there is nothing to download, quantize or serve on your own GPUs: no VRAM budget, no vLLM or GGUF build to plan for. The only way to run it is over an API.

Skip the deploy — use LLM.API as your endpoint

No GPUs, no quantization trade-offs. Same model, OpenAI-compatible, up to 30% below list price.

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Providers

LLM.API routes Amazon Nova Lite to the providers below, with discounted effective rates versus list price.

List price by provider

InputOutput
aws-bedrock$0.06 in
$0.24 out

Provider list prices; the LLM.API discount applies on top.

ProviderPricingContextCapabilities
aws-bedrockin $0.06; out $0.24 per 1M tokens300K tokensvision, tools, streaming, JSON, structured

Prices and availability from the LLMAPI catalogue, updated nightly. Last updated 8 Oct 2026.

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Amazon Nova Lite
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Code snippet

Call Amazon Nova Lite through the OpenAI-compatible API — POST /v1/chat/completions.

Switching from OpenAI? Change 2 lines.

- base_url="https://api.openai.com/v1"
- api_key="YOUR_OPENAI_KEY"
+ base_url="https://api.llmapi.ai/v1"
+ api_key="YOUR_LLMAPI_KEY"

Everything else stays the same — SDK, message format, tools, streaming. Set model to nova-lite and the call runs unchanged.

bash
curl https://api.llmapi.ai/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $LLMAPI_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "nova-lite",
    "messages": [
      {"role": "user", "content": "Give me three crisp launch checklist items."}
    ]
  }'
from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    api_key="YOUR_LLMAPI_KEY",
    base_url="https://api.llmapi.ai/v1",
)

resp = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="nova-lite",
    messages=[
        {"role": "system", "content": "You are a precise product assistant."},
        {"role": "user", "content": "Give me three crisp launch checklist items."},
    ],
)
print(resp.choices[0].message.content)
import OpenAI from "openai";

const client = new OpenAI({
  apiKey: process.env.LLMAPI_KEY,
  baseURL: "https://api.llmapi.ai/v1",
});

const resp = await client.chat.completions.create({
  model: "nova-lite",
  messages: [
    { role: "user", content: "Give me three crisp launch checklist items." },
  ],
});

console.log(resp.choices[0].message.content);
stream = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="nova-lite",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Write a haiku about latency."}],
    stream=True,
)

for chunk in stream:
    delta = chunk.choices[0].delta.content
    if delta:
        print(delta, end="", flush=True)
{
  "model": "nova-lite",
  "messages": [
    {"role": "system", "content": "You are a precise product assistant."},
    {"role": "user", "content": "Give me three crisp launch checklist items."}
  ]
}

ENDPOINTS

Supported endpoints & features

Base URL https://api.llmapi.ai/v1 · model ID nova-lite · OpenAI-compatible.

  • POST /v1/chat/completionsChat Completions — supported
FeatureStatusHow to set it
Function calling (tools)Supportedtools, tool_choice
Parallel tool callsNot supportedparallel_tool_calls
JSON modeSupportedresponse_format: {"type": "json_object"}
Structured outputsSupportedresponse_format: {"type": "json_schema", …}
StreamingSupportedstream: true
Vision (image input)Supportedimage_url content parts
Web searchNot supportedweb_search

ERRORS

Errors & fallback routing

CodeWhat it meansWhat to do
401Missing or invalid API key.Send Authorization: Bearer YOUR_LLMAPI_KEY and check the key is active.
429Rate limited, or the upstream provider is throttling the request.Back off and retry with jitter; the gateway also retries the request on another provider where one is available.
5xxUpstream provider error or timeout.Retry; fallback routing sends the retry to the next healthy provider for this model.

When a provider fails or throttles, the request is routed to the next provider serving this model — the ones listed in the providers table above.

Amazon Nova Lite in production

What the model is good at.

  • Conversational UX

    Maintains coherent multi-turn assistant behavior for product chat surfaces.

  • Code assistance

    Helps write, explain, refactor, and debug application code across common languages.

  • Tool-ready dialogue

    Works well in agent loops that call functions, browsers, or retrieval APIs.

  • Long-context synthesis

    Summarizes and cross-references information across large prompts when context allows.

  • Safety-aware replies

    Supports product policies with refusals and cautious handling of sensitive topics. Relevant for `nova-lite` workloads on LLM.API.

What you get when you call Amazon Nova Lite through LLM.API.

  • Unified AI Routing

    Reach Amazon Nova Lite and sibling models through one OpenAI-compatible endpoint.

    One endpoint, every model.

  • Cost Control

    Compare provider price points and keep spend visible as you scale Amazon Nova Lite.

    More performance, less spend.

  • Reliability Layer

    Retry and route across configured providers when a single upstream blips.

    Never go dark on users.

  • Observability

    Practical: Trace prompts, tokens, and errors for Amazon Nova Lite alongside the rest of your stack.

    See every token, everywhere.

  • Drop-in SDKs

    Production: Keep using familiar OpenAI client patterns with base URL https://api.llmapi.ai/v1.

    Think tasks, not models.

  • Model Breadth

    Swap Amazon Nova Lite for chat, media, or embedding alternatives without rewriting auth.

    Scale from 1 to millions.

When to Use — When NOT to Use

Use it if...

  • You need provider failover options exposed for this model id (Amazon Nova Lite)
  • You need a general-purpose text model for assistants, agents, or content workflows (Amazon Nova Lite)
  • Your prompts benefit from the model's family strengths (reasoning, speed, or cost) (Amazon Nova Lite)
  • You want OpenAI-compatible chat completions through a single LLM.API key (Amazon Nova Lite)

Avoid if...

  • You need pure embedding, OCR, or media generation instead of chat
  • You need guaranteed real-time hard latency SLAs without benchmarking the provider
  • You require on-prem only deployment with no cloud inference
  • Your use case depends on unpublished proprietary benchmarks not listed here

LLM API rating for Amazon Nova Lite

★ 3.0/ 5.0LLM API rating
50% production adoption · 30% category benchmark · 20% tooling & value✓ Verified benchmark · Artificial Analysis
3.7Production adoptionEstablished provider, moderate volume
1.1Benchmark qualityArtificial Analysis Intelligence Index 6.7
4.1Developer ecosystemContext window, tool and JSON support, price against the category median
Reasoning & chat 3.0Coding 3.0Vision & multimodal 3.6Tool & function calling 4.1Long context 3.9
How is this rating calculated?

Every model gets a separate 1.0–5.0 score for each category it can be used in, so a model can rate high for coding and lower for vision. The score combines three parts:

  1. Production adoption — 50%. How widely the model is actually used in production: provider traffic, LiteLLM and gateway usage, open-weight downloads and its LMArena rank. Proven, widely used models score highest.
  2. Category benchmark — 30%. The public benchmark that matters for that category — the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index and LMArena Elo for reasoning, LMArena coding Elo for coding, image and document support plus vision Elo for vision, tool and JSON support for function calling, measured speed for voice.
  3. Tooling & value — 20%. Context window, support for tools, structured outputs and streaming, and price compared with the category median.

Scores of 4.0 and above are shown in green, 3.0–3.9 in yellow, below 3.0 in red. When a model has no public data for a part, it gets a neutral value instead of an invented number.

A “Verified benchmark” mark (✓) means an independent lab — LMArena or Artificial Analysis — has actually tested that model, and the source figure is shown. Models without that mark are labelled “Estimated from published specs”: the score comes from the published context window, tool and schema support, price and adoption only, because no independent lab has tested them yet.

One exception: a brand-new top-tier model that scores very high on the independent benchmarks but has no usage history yet is rated on the benchmark (60%) and tooling & value (40%) alone, so a missing adoption figure can't hold it back. All inputs come from public sources and are refreshed weekly.

Adoption and benchmark inputs come from public sources — LMArena, Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index and published model specs. Updated weekly.

BENCHMARKS

Amazon Nova Lite benchmark scores

Intelligence index

This model7.
Tracked median6.

Scale: 0-100 index points

Output speed

This model169 t/s

Scale: 0-400 tokens per second

Reference price per 1M tokens

Input$0.06
Output$0.24

Bars compare input and output list prices for this model.

Intelligence index+17% vs median
Amazon Nova Lite API: Endpoint & 30% Discount7
Median tracked model6

Higher is better. The median covers every model tracked by Artificial Analysis.

Output speed
169tok/s

Measured throughput; the full dial is 300 tokens per second.

Reference price / 1M tokens
Input$0.06
Output$0.24

Provider list prices, before the LLM.API discount.

Independent scores published by Artificial Analysis (source). Reference prices are provider list prices, not LLM.API pricing.

COMMUNITY

What developers say about Amazon Nova models

LMArena—Speed169 tokens/sSources: LMArena, Artificial Analysis

Summarised from publicly published developer and community reviews of this model family. Opinions are the sources’, not LLM.API’s, and may not be specific to Amazon Nova Lite.

  • Reviews consistently call Nova cheap and underrated — best-in-class pricing with tight AWS/Bedrock integration.
  • Amazon's own positioning, echoed by commentators, is that benchmark position matters less than cost and deployment fit.
  • Developers pick Nova for high-volume, cost-sensitive workloads already running inside AWS.

SOURCES

Frequently Asked Questions

  • When should I choose Amazon Nova Lite?

    You want OpenAI-compatible chat completions through a single LLM.API key — especially when you specifically need Amazon Nova Lite.

  • Can I use tools or structured outputs with Amazon Nova Lite?

    Tool and/or structured-output flags appear on one or more providers for this model—confirm in the providers table.

  • Does Amazon Nova Lite support streaming?

    Yes—at least one listed provider advertises streaming.

  • Which providers serve Amazon Nova Lite?

    LLM.API currently lists: aws-bedrock. Availability can vary by region and account.

  • Is Amazon Nova Lite a chat model?

    Yes—Amazon Nova Lite is exposed as a chat/completions-style endpoint on LLM.API.

  • What are limitations of Amazon Nova Lite?

    Like other API models, Amazon Nova Lite can be wrong, incomplete, or uneven on edge cases. Validate outputs for high-stakes use. Media/OCR/STT models additionally depend on input quality.

  • Where is the canonical page for Amazon Nova Lite?

    https://llmapi.ai/models/amazon-nova-lite/

  • How is Amazon Nova Lite priced on LLM.API?

    Listed pricing metadata shows: In $0.06 / 1M tokens · Out $0.24 / 1M tokens. LLM.API may offer discounted effective rates (illustrative ~30% callout vs list when available).. Confirm live rates in the LLM.API dashboard or docs before production budgeting.

  • What modalities does Amazon Nova Lite support?

    Amazon Nova Lite accepts text, image and produces text according to its architecture metadata on LLM.API.

  • What is Amazon Nova Lite?

    nova-lite provided by aws-bedrock. It is wired for API access through LLM.API with OpenAI-compatible patterns. On LLM.API it is addressed as `nova-lite`.

  • What is the context length for Amazon Nova Lite?

    Reported context for Amazon Nova Lite is 300K tokens. Always verify the active provider row if multiple providers are listed.

  • How do I call Amazon Nova Lite via API?

    Send OpenAI-compatible requests to https://api.llmapi.ai/v1 with model "nova-lite" and your LLM.API key. See the code snippet on this page.

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