What is Nova Lite 1.0 API?
Nova Lite 1.0 is available through AIMLAPI.
Technical Specifications
- Supported inputs: Image, Text
- Output: Text
- Context window: 300,000 tokens / Max output: 5,120 tokens
- Endpoint: /chat/completions
Performance Benchmarks
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Nova Lite 1.0 API Pricing
- Input: $0.078 / 1M tokens
- Output: $0.312 / 1M tokens
Where to Use Nova Lite 1.0
Coding and code review
Generate, debug, and review code across languages, reading whole files or repos in a single prompt.
Agentic and multi-step workflows
Reliable tool-calling and instruction-following suit agent loops that plan, call tools, and iterate.
Complex reasoning
Extended reasoning improves reliability on multi-step math, logic, and technical analysis.
Long-document analysis
Summarize and extract from contracts, papers, and reports without aggressive chunking.
Code Sample
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Measured on the AI/ML API gateway across live traffic. Figures are medians unless stated. Last updated 2026-10-12.
Interactive chat interfaces, retrieval-augmented generation systems, agentic applications, video analysis, and UI workflow automation are documented use cases for Amazon Nova Lite.
It is also documented as suitable for interactive agents that need to orchestrate multiple tool calls simultaneously.
Another documented use case is document analysis, along with visual question answering on text, images, and video inputs.
Amazon also describes it as suitable for reasoning across text, documents, charts, images, and videos, including agentic workflows that use RAG, API execution, and UI actuation.
import requests r = requests.post( "https://api.aimlapi.com/v1/chat/completions", headers={"Authorization": "Bearer " + AIMLAPI_KEY}, json={ "model": "amazon/nova-lite-v1", "messages": [ { "role": "user", "content": "Hello!" } ] }, ) print(r.json())
const r = await fetch("https://api.aimlapi.com/v1/chat/completions", { method: "POST", headers: { Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.AIMLAPI_KEY}`, "Content-Type": "application/json", }, body: JSON.stringify({ "model": "amazon/nova-lite-v1", "messages": [ { "role": "user", "content": "Hello!" } ] }), }); console.log(await r.json());
curl -X POST https://api.aimlapi.com/v1/chat/completions \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $AIMLAPI_KEY" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{"model":"amazon/nova-lite-v1","messages":[{"role":"user","content":"Hello!"}]}'
OpenAI-compatible — swap the base URL and it works with your existing SDK.
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| Model | Input | Output | Context | Best for |
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Nova Lite 1.0 This page | Reasoning + agents | |||
| Reasoning + agents | ||||
| Balanced coding + agents | ||||
| Long-context, multimodal & agentic workflows | ||||
| Reasoning + agents |
Nova Lite 1.0 has a 300,000 tokens context window and can return up to 5,120 tokens.
Nova Lite 1.0 takes image, text as input and returns text.
Use amazon/nova-lite-v1 as the model id. Requests go to https://api.aimlapi.com/v1/chat/completions.
Nova Lite 1.0 is priced at input $0.082524 / 1M tokens, output $0.330096 / 1M tokens.
Yes, Nova Lite 1.0 can stream responses as they are generated.
Yes, Nova Lite 1.0 accepts image input alongside text.
Yes, it supports function calling and parallel tool calls.
Yes, web search is one of its listed capabilities.
