Amazon Nova Lite
Amazon
- Released
- December 2024
- Data date
- September 8, 2026
- Successor
- Amazon Nova 2 Lite
- Speed
- 174.7 tokens/sOutput throughput
- Price
- Input · Output / 1M tokens
- Input
- Text, Image, Video
- Output
- Text
Amazon Nova Lite is Amazon's lower-cost multimodal Nova component for documents and visual questions. It accepts text, images, and video, then returns text. With a 300K-token context, it fits long documents, visual content checks, and support workflows where Amazon Nova Micro is ruled out by its text-only interface.
AWS lists amazon.nova-lite-v1:0 as the active Bedrock identifier. The model does not generate images or video; it answers multimodal inputs with text. Structured outputs are not supported according to the current model card. Nova Lite is therefore a managed proprietary service, not a checkpoint intended for local deployment.
Profile
Specifications and access
Published information about this model. Existing estimates are explicitly labeled.
Dated documentation and model-card observations. Provider limits, native context and extended context can differ. Configuration notes retain the source wording.
| Specification | Value and source |
|---|---|
| Weights | ProprietarySource |
| Access | APISource |
| Context window | 300,000 tokensSource |
| Knowledge cutoff | October 2024Source |
| Release | 2024-12 (Month-only precision; source did not expose an exact day.)Source |
| API model ID | amazon.nova-lite-v1:0Source |
| Maximum output | 10,000 tokensSource |
| Input | Text, Image, VideoSource |
| Output | TextSource |
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Measurements without matching peer values
These measurements have no matching peer values under the same test conditions. Their original values and sources remain available here.
MMLU (Show measurement, test conditions, and source)
- Source value
- 80.5
- Score
- 80.5
- Metric
- percent
- Unit
- %
- Category
- knowledge
- Direction
- Higher is better
- Comparison cohort
- research:amazon-nova-lite:0
- Source type
- vendor-reported
- Evaluator
- Amazon Nova technical report and model card
- Status
- active
- Retrieved at
- 2026-09-08
- Methodology
- Vendor-reported result. Nova Lite; 0-shot CoT
ARC-C (Show measurement, test conditions, and source)
- Source value
- 92.4
- Score
- 92.4
- Metric
- percent
- Unit
- %
- Category
- reasoning
- Direction
- Higher is better
- Comparison cohort
- research:amazon-nova-lite:1
- Source type
- vendor-reported
- Evaluator
- Amazon Nova technical report and model card
- Status
- active
- Retrieved at
- 2026-09-08
- Methodology
- Vendor-reported result. Nova Lite; 0-shot
DROP (Show measurement, test conditions, and source)
- Source value
- 80.2
- Score
- 80.2
- Metric
- percent
- Unit
- %
- Category
- reasoning
- Direction
- Higher is better
- Comparison cohort
- research:amazon-nova-lite:2
- Source type
- vendor-reported
- Evaluator
- Amazon Nova technical report and model card
- Status
- active
- Retrieved at
- 2026-09-08
- Methodology
- Vendor-reported result. Nova Lite; 6-shot CoT
GPQA (Show measurement, test conditions, and source)
- Source value
- 42
- Score
- 42
- Metric
- percent
- Unit
- %
- Category
- reasoning
- Direction
- Higher is better
- Comparison cohort
- research:amazon-nova-lite:3
- Source type
- vendor-reported
- Evaluator
- Amazon Nova technical report and model card
- Status
- active
- Retrieved at
- 2026-09-08
- Methodology
- Vendor-reported result. Nova Lite; 0-shot CoT; GPQA main set
MATH (Show measurement, test conditions, and source)
- Source value
- 73.3
- Score
- 73.3
- Metric
- percent
- Unit
- %
- Category
- reasoning
- Direction
- Higher is better
- Comparison cohort
- research:amazon-nova-lite:4
- Source type
- vendor-reported
- Evaluator
- Amazon Nova technical report and model card
- Status
- active
- Retrieved at
- 2026-09-08
- Methodology
- Vendor-reported result. Nova Lite; 0-shot CoT; MATH5k
GSM8K (Show measurement, test conditions, and source)
- Source value
- 94.5
- Score
- 94.5
- Metric
- percent
- Unit
- %
- Category
- reasoning
- Direction
- Higher is better
- Comparison cohort
- research:amazon-nova-lite:5
- Source type
- vendor-reported
- Evaluator
- Amazon Nova technical report and model card
- Status
- active
- Retrieved at
- 2026-09-08
- Methodology
- Vendor-reported result. Nova Lite; 0-shot CoT; test set
IFEval (Show measurement, test conditions, and source)
- Source value
- 89.7
- Score
- 89.7
- Metric
- percent
- Unit
- %
- Category
- instruction-following
- Direction
- Higher is better
- Comparison cohort
- research:amazon-nova-lite:6
- Source type
- vendor-reported
- Evaluator
- Amazon Nova technical report and model card
- Status
- active
- Retrieved at
- 2026-09-08
- Methodology
- Vendor-reported result. Nova Lite; 0-shot; instruction-level loose accuracy
BBH (Show measurement, test conditions, and source)
- Source value
- 82.4
- Score
- 82.4
- Metric
- percent
- Unit
- %
- Category
- reasoning
- Direction
- Higher is better
- Comparison cohort
- research:amazon-nova-lite:7
- Source type
- vendor-reported
- Evaluator
- Amazon Nova technical report and model card
- Status
- active
- Retrieved at
- 2026-09-08
- Methodology
- Vendor-reported result. Nova Lite; 3-shot CoT; macro average exact match
MMMU (Show measurement, test conditions, and source)
- Source value
- 56.2
- Score
- 56.2
- Metric
- percent
- Unit
- %
- Category
- multimodal
- Direction
- Higher is better
- Comparison cohort
- research:amazon-nova-lite:13
- Source type
- vendor-reported
- Evaluator
- Amazon Nova technical report and model card
- Status
- active
- Retrieved at
- 2026-09-08
- Methodology
- Vendor-reported result. Nova Lite; Table 3; 0-shot unless benchmark guidance applies
- Context
- Amazon report 95% CI half-width: ±3.2.
ChartQA (Show measurement, test conditions, and source)
- Source value
- 86.8
- Score
- 86.8
- Metric
- percent
- Unit
- %
- Category
- multimodal
- Direction
- Higher is better
- Comparison cohort
- research:amazon-nova-lite:14
- Source type
- vendor-reported
- Evaluator
- Amazon Nova technical report and model card
- Status
- active
- Retrieved at
- 2026-09-08
- Methodology
- Vendor-reported result. Nova Lite; Table 3; 0-shot unless benchmark guidance applies
- Context
- Amazon report 95% CI half-width: ±1.3.
DocVQA (Show measurement, test conditions, and source)
- Source value
- 92.4
- Score
- 92.4
- Metric
- percent
- Unit
- %
- Category
- multimodal
- Direction
- Higher is better
- Comparison cohort
- research:amazon-nova-lite:15
- Source type
- vendor-reported
- Evaluator
- Amazon Nova technical report and model card
- Status
- active
- Retrieved at
- 2026-09-08
- Methodology
- Vendor-reported result. Nova Lite; Table 3; 0-shot unless benchmark guidance applies
TextVQA (Show measurement, test conditions, and source)
- Source value
- 80.2
- Score
- 80.2
- Metric
- percent
- Unit
- %
- Category
- multimodal
- Direction
- Higher is better
- Comparison cohort
- research:amazon-nova-lite:16
- Source type
- vendor-reported
- Evaluator
- Amazon Nova technical report and model card
- Status
- active
- Retrieved at
- 2026-09-08
- Methodology
- Vendor-reported result. Nova Lite; Table 3; 0-shot unless benchmark guidance applies
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Popularity
Popularity
32.1 / 100
Model generations
Predecessor and successor
Every relationship names its kind, its qualification and the dated source it rests on.
Evidence
Sources and data date
Every statement links to its underlying documentation or leaderboard.
| Type | Evidence and data date |
|---|---|
| Speed | Amazon. Output speed after the first streaming chunk, not total response time. Classified as deprecated by Artificial Analysis. Artificial Analysis maintains only the default 10K-input workload there. Retrieved September 8, 2026. |
| Price | Base API prices without caching or batch discounts. Higher context tiers and other rates are listed under Costs. |
| Input | Documented modalities. Retrieved September 8, 2026. |
| Output | Documented modalities. Retrieved September 8, 2026. |
| Research status | Research date September 8, 2026. 5 source URLs checked. This documents the inspected sources, not an exhaustive inventory of every publication. |
| Not found in the inspected sources | parameters-billions Original wording No exact value located in the checked primary model card/API documentation. |
| Not found in the inspected sources | active-parameters-billions Original wording No exact value located in the checked primary model card/API documentation. |
| Not found in the inspected sources | knowledge-cutoff Original wording No exact value located in the checked primary model card/API documentation. |
| Not found in the inspected sources | profile-benchmarks-additional Original wording The report contains additional figure-only runtime metrics (TTFT and total response time); only exact text-table rows were transcribed. |
| Additional source | Model metadata |
| Additional source | Context window data · Amazon Nova models · Editorial description reviewed October 2, 2026 |
| Additional source | Knowledge cutoff data · Amazon Bedrock model card for Amazon Nova Lite · Editorial description reviewed October 2, 2026 |
| Additional source | Amazon Nova technical report and model card (retrieved September 8, 2026) |
| Additional source | OpenRouter: Popularity index (derived), CC BY 4.0 |
| Additional source | Vercel AI Gateway: Popularity index (derived), CC BY 4.0 |
| Additional source | Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 |
| Additional source | Amazon Nova 2 User Guide (2026-09-22) |