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Nova Lite

AmazonReleased Dec 3, 2024Current

Score basis

Nova Lite is behind the leaders in factuality and multimodal tasks. Too few results yet to rate reasoning, coding, agentic tasks, safety, long context, math, multilingual tasks, or instruction following.

Capability profile

Bars show the model's median result as a share of the leading model's, per capability. Select a row to see its results.

Limited2 capabilities
  1. Factuality−36.5%3 of 4
  2. Multimodal−48.5%2 of 6
Not rated8 capabilities

Too few results yet to rate Reasoning, Coding, Agentic, Safety, Long Context, Math, Multilingual or Instruction Following.

Price

$0.06input$0.24outputper million tokens

From Artificial Analysis · All prices

Cheaper than 90% of 330 priced models · 3:1 input-to-output blend, log scale

Evidence

43results on41benchmarks

  • 13 independently verified
  • 16 aggregator
  • 14 vendor-reported

From 10 sources · latest Oct 8, 2026 · How verification works

Research

1 paper reference Nova Lite

Nova Lite benchmark results

43 results on 41 benchmarks, grouped by capability. Each bar is the result as a share of the capability leader's; every result links to its source.

Factuality

LimitedFull factuality ranking

36.5% behind the leader3 of 4 ranked benchmarks measured

Multimodal

LimitedFull multimodal ranking

48.5% behind the leader2 of 6 ranked benchmarks measured

Reasoning

Not enough dataFull reasoning ranking

0 of 6 ranked benchmarks measured

Show 1 more reasoning resultHide 1 reasoning result

Coding

Not enough dataFull coding ranking

0 of 10 ranked benchmarks measured

Agentic

Not enough dataFull agentic ranking

0 of 7 ranked benchmarks measured

Long Context

Not enough dataFull long context ranking

0 of 3 ranked benchmarks measured

Instruction Following

Not enough dataFull instruction following ranking

0 of 3 ranked benchmarks measured

More results

Benchmarks outside the capability baskets. They are not ranked against a leader.

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Nova Lite: common questions

Who makes Nova Lite?

Nova Lite is made by Amazon.

When was Nova Lite released?

Nova Lite was released on Dec 3, 2024, according to Artificial Analysis.

What is Nova Lite good at?

Nova Lite is behind the leaders in factuality and multimodal tasks. Too few results yet to rate reasoning, coding, agentic tasks, safety, long context, math, multilingual tasks, or instruction following.

How much does Nova Lite cost?

Nova Lite costs $0.06 per million input tokens and $0.24 per million output tokens, according to Artificial Analysis. At a mix of three input tokens to one output token, it is cheaper than 90% of the 330 priced models we track.

How many benchmarks has Nova Lite been tested on?

We track 43 results for Nova Lite on 41 benchmarks from 10 sources, 13 of them independently verified. The latest was recorded on Oct 8, 2026.

About this record

Where Nova Lite's numbers come from, and every name it appears under.

Tracked since
Jun 18, 2026
Newest source mention
Sep 2, 2026

Where the results come from

Verification: 43 scores · 13 independently verified · 16 aggregator-attributed · 14 vendor-reported. How these tiers are assigned

From 10 sources on 5 sites. Artificial Analysis supplies 16 of them; the 13 independently verified results come from 3 sites. Bars are coloured by trust tier.

  • artificialanalysis.ai16
  • api.llm-stats.com14
  • storage.googleapis.com6
  • raw.githubusercontent.com4
  • huggingface.co3

Also known as

Amazon Nova LiteNova Lite V1:0