Amazon: Nova Lite 1.0
amazon/nova-lite-v1
Access Nova Lite 1.0 from Amazon using Puter.js AI API.
Get Started// npm install @heyputer/puter.js
import { puter } from '@heyputer/puter.js';
puter.ai.chat("Explain quantum computing in simple terms", {
model: "amazon/nova-lite-v1"
}).then(response => {
document.body.innerHTML = response.message.content;
});
<html>
<body>
<script src="https://js.puter.com/v2/"></script>
<script>
puter.ai.chat("Explain quantum computing in simple terms", {
model: "amazon/nova-lite-v1"
}).then(response => {
document.body.innerHTML = response.message.content;
});
</script>
</body>
</html>
# pip install openai
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(
base_url="https://api.puter.com/puterai/openai/v1/",
api_key="YOUR_PUTER_AUTH_TOKEN",
)
response = client.chat.completions.create(
model="amazon/nova-lite-v1",
messages=[
{"role": "user", "content": "Explain quantum computing in simple terms"}
],
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)
curl https://api.puter.com/puterai/openai/v1/chat/completions \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_PUTER_AUTH_TOKEN" \
-d '{
"model": "amazon/nova-lite-v1",
"messages": [
{"role": "user", "content": "Explain quantum computing in simple terms"}
]
}'
Model Card
Amazon Nova Lite is a very low-cost, lightning-fast multimodal model that processes text, images, and video inputs to generate text output. It supports up to 300K input tokens and can analyze multiple images or up to 30 minutes of video in a single request. Ideal for real-time customer interactions, document analysis, and visual question-answering tasks.
Context Window 300K
tokens
Max Output 5K
tokens
Input Cost $0.06
per million tokens
Output Cost $0.24
per million tokens
Release Date Dec 3, 2024
Output Speed 224
tokens / sec
Latency 0.67s
time to first token
Model Playground
Try Nova Lite 1.0 instantly in your browser.
This playground uses the Puter.js AI API — no API keys or setup required.
Benchmarks
How Nova Lite 1.0 performs on standard evaluations.
| Benchmark | Score |
|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond Graduate-level science Q&A | 43.3% |
| Humanity's Last Exam Cross-domain reasoning | 4.6% |
| LiveCodeBench Recent coding problems | 16.7% |
| SciCode Scientific programming | 13.9% |
| MATH-500 Competition math | 76.5% |
| AIME 2024 Advanced math exam | 10.7% |
| AIME 2025 Advanced math exam | 7.0% |
| IFBench Instruction following | 34.1% |
| LCR Long-context reasoning | 17.7% |
| Terminal-Bench Hard Agentic terminal tasks | 0.8% |
| τ²-Bench Tool use / agents | 17.5% |
Scores sourced from Artificial Analysis.
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Amazon Nova 2 Lite is a fast, cost-effective multimodal reasoning model for everyday workloads that processes text, images, and video with a 1M token context window. It features extended thinking with adjustable reasoning intensity (low/medium/high) and built-in tools for web grounding and code execution. Released in December 2025, it excels at document processing, customer service chatbots, and agentic workflows.
ChatNova Premier 1.0
Amazon Nova Premier is the most capable multimodal model in the Nova family, designed for complex reasoning tasks requiring the highest accuracy. It processes text, images, and video with advanced understanding capabilities and serves as the best teacher model for distilling custom variants of smaller Nova models. Best suited for sophisticated enterprise applications demanding top-tier intelligence.
ChatNova Micro 1.0
Amazon Nova Micro is a text-only model that delivers the lowest latency responses at the lowest cost in the Nova family. With a 128K token context window, it excels at text summarization, translation, content classification, interactive chat, and basic coding tasks. It's the fastest and most economical option when multimodal capabilities aren't needed.
Frequently Asked Questions
You can access Nova Lite 1.0 by Amazon through Puter.js AI API. Include the library in your web app or Node.js project and start making calls with just a few lines of JavaScript — no backend and no configuration required. You can also use it with Python or cURL via Puter's OpenAI-compatible API.
Yes, it is free if you're using it through Puter.js. With the User-Pays Model, you can add Nova Lite 1.0 to your app at no cost — your users pay for their own AI usage directly, making it completely free for you as a developer.
| Price per 1M tokens | |
|---|---|
| Input | $0.06 |
| Output | $0.24 |
Nova Lite 1.0 was created by Amazon and released on Dec 3, 2024.
Nova Lite 1.0 supports a context window of 300K tokens. For reference, that is roughly equivalent to 600 pages of text.
Nova Lite 1.0 can generate up to 5K tokens in a single response.
Yes — the Nova Lite 1.0 API works with any JavaScript framework, Node.js, or plain HTML through Puter.js. Just include the library and start building. See the documentation for more details.
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