Amazon Nova Micro vs Nova Lite

Side-by-side comparison of API pricing, context window, latency, and benchmark performance. Data refreshed daily from provider APIs and ModelStop's own latency probes.

Key Differences

💰Nova Lite is 100% cheaper than Amazon Nova Micro

Comparison Overview

Price (lower is better), Speed/Latency (lower is better), Performance (higher is better)

Detailed Comparison

Why choose between them?

Amazon Nova Micro: Best value

Nova Lite: Best value

Spec	Amazon Nova Micro	Nova Lite
Provider	amazon	amazon
Input price / 1M tokens	$0.04	Free
Output price / 1M tokens	$0.14	—
Context window	128k tokens	—
Latency (p50)	—	—
Best benchmark score	—	—
Open source	No	No

Amazon Nova Micro

Amazon Nova Micro is the fastest and most cost-effective text-only model in the Nova family, optimized for speed and low latency. Ideal for customer service, summarization, and translation at scale.

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Nova Lite

Nova Lite — available via AWS Bedrock (us-east-1).

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