# Nova Lite

Screenshots, diagrams, and up to 30 minutes of video go into Nova Lite with plain text. Input pricing stays low enough for steady vision traffic without jumping to the top pricing tier.

- **Model ID:** `amazon/nova-lite`
- **Type:** chat
- **Providers:** bedrock
- **Context window:** 300,000
- **Maximum output tokens:** 8,192
- **Pricing:** $0.06/1M input tokens, $0.24/1M output tokens
- **Canonical page:** https://vercel.com/ai-gateway/models/nova-lite

## Supported parameters

Detailed capability metadata has not been reported for this model.

## Example

```ts
import { streamText } from 'ai'

const result = streamText({
  model: 'amazon/nova-lite',
  prompt: 'Why is the sky blue?'
})
```

## About

Nova Lite launched on December 3, 2024 as the budget multimodal option in Amazon's first-generation Nova family. Its defining trait is breadth of input. Text, images, and video (up to 30 minutes per request) all flow into a single context window of 300K tokens. No other model in the original Nova lineup combines that input flexibility with comparable pricing.

Video is the headline capability. A compliance team can feed in an entire training session recording and get a structured summary. A media company can batch-process hours of lecture footage overnight. A customer support platform can accept screen recordings from users and extract the relevant issue automatically. These workflows become economically viable because Nova Lite treats video as a first-class input modality at a cost tier built for volume, not occasional use.

Images receive the same treatment. Multiple images can accompany text in a single prompt. This enables side-by-side document comparison, multi-page form extraction, product catalog enrichment, and UI screenshot analysis. The model is tuned for fast, cost-efficient classification and extraction from visual inputs rather than deep analytical reasoning. That tradeoff is deliberate. It keeps latency low and throughput high for the batch-oriented pipelines where Nova Lite excels.

## What to consider

Spikes hurt less than on premium tiers. AI Gateway retries and routes traffic so you don't hand-tune failover when load jumps.

## When to use

### Best For

- Summarizing long video recordings (meetings, lectures, webinars) using the 30-minute video input capacity
- Batch image classification and visual extraction where throughput and cost matter more than nuanced reasoning
- Content moderation pipelines that evaluate both text and visual media at high volume
- Customer-facing applications that accept image or video uploads without incurring premium per-token costs

### Consider Alternatives When

- Your workload is purely text-based. Nova Micro costs less and responds faster
- You need multi-step reasoning, extended thinking, or agentic tool use. Nova 2 Lite adds those capabilities
- Accuracy on structured financial or legal documents is critical. Nova Pro is tuned for that level of precision

## Best for

- **Long video summarization:** Meetings, lectures, and webinars using the 30-minute video input capacity
- **Batch image classification:** Throughput and cost matter more than nuanced reasoning for visual extraction workloads
- **Content moderation pipelines:** Evaluate both text and visual media at high volume
- **Customer-facing media uploads:** Accept image or video uploads without incurring premium per-token costs

## Consider alternatives

- **Purely text-based workloads:** Nova Micro costs less and responds faster for text-only tasks
- **Multi-step reasoning needed:** Nova 2 Lite adds extended thinking and agentic tool use capabilities
- **High-accuracy structured documents:** Nova Pro is tuned for precision on financial or legal documents

## Frequently asked questions

### How much video can Nova Lite handle in a single request?

Up to 30 minutes of video content per request, processed within the context window of 300K tokens. This covers most meeting recordings, lecture segments, and training videos without splitting.

### What visual tasks is Nova Lite well suited for?

Extraction and classification tasks. Examples include pulling structured data from screenshots, categorizing product photos, reading forms and receipts, and flagging content in moderation pipelines. It's optimized for speed and volume rather than complex visual reasoning.

### Can I mix images and text in the same prompt?

Yes. Nova Lite accepts multiple images alongside text within a single request, which is useful for comparing two documents side by side, processing multi-page forms, or enriching product listings with photo analysis.

### Does Nova Lite produce any visual output?

No. Nova Lite generates text output only. It analyzes visual inputs but does not create them.

### How does the pricing compare to other multimodal models in the Nova family?

Current pricing is shown on this page. AI Gateway routes across providers, and rates may vary by provider.

### What is the tradeoff compared to Nova Pro for image analysis?

Nova Lite prioritizes throughput and cost; Nova Pro prioritizes accuracy. If your images contain dense tables, fine-print legal text, or complex diagrams requiring precise interpretation, Pro produces more reliable results. For routine classification and extraction, Lite is the more efficient choice.

## Links

- [Model page](https://vercel.com/ai-gateway/models/nova-lite)
- [AI Gateway documentation](https://vercel.com/docs/ai-gateway)
- [Provider model documentation](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/nova/latest/userguide/what-is-nova.html)
- [Provider pricing](https://aws.amazon.com/bedrock/pricing/)