Nova Lite brings multimodal understanding of text, images, and up to 30 minutes of video to a context of 300K tokens at low per-token rates, making vision-enabled production pipelines practical at scale.
import { streamText } from 'ai'
const result = streamText({ model: 'amazon/nova-lite', prompt: 'Why is the sky blue?'})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.