Nova Lite (CA)
Nova Lite (CA) is an Amazon proprietary model, released 3 Dec 2024. It is not yet ranked: no independent benchmark results so far, only pricing and metadata. At $0.112 per million tokens blended it is among the cheapest fifth of ranked models.
- Blended price
- $0.112/M
- $0.064 in · $0.256 out
- Output speed
- –
- First answer
- –
- Context
- 300k
- Released
- 3 Dec 2024
No independent quality benchmark results yet — only pricing and metadata.
What a task costs
Estimates from list price, output speed and time to first answer for the best configuration. “With caching” assumes three-quarters of the input is served from the prompt cache at $0.016 per 1M. Reasoning tokens are not modelled.
| Workload | Tokens in / out | Cost | With caching | Time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chat reply | 400 / 300 | $0.0001 | $0.0001 | – |
| Summarise a 30-page report | 12,000 / 600 | $0.0009 | $0.0005 | – |
| Code edit | 6,000 / 1,500 | $0.0008 | $0.0006 | – |
| Agentic coding session | 60,000 / 4,000 | $0.0049 | $0.0027 | – |
| Structured extraction | 2,000 / 200 | $0.0002 | $0.0001 | – |
See also
Data as of 13 Sept 2026. Compare with another model.
Cite as: BenchLeader, “Nova Lite (CA): benchmarks, pricing, speed and rank”, https://www.benchleader.com/models/ca-amazon-nova-lite, data as of 13 Sept 2026.