Nova Lite is Amazon's low-cost multimodal model designed for document analysis, visual question answering, and video understanding. It processes text, image, and video inputs with a 300K token context window, making it well suited to tasks that require image or video comprehension on a budget. Unlike Nova Micro's text-only specialization, Lite adds vision and video to handle complex multi-turn interactions, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) workflows, and agentic applications that combine language and visual understanding. The model natively handles documents, charts, images, and up to 30 minutes of video content in a single request. Nova Lite supports prompt caching and function calling for reliable tool use in automation workflows. Like the rest of the Nova family, it understands and generates content in over 200 languages, with strong performance across major global languages including English, German, Spanish, French, Japanese, Korean, and Simplified Chinese. Launched in December 2024, Nova Lite sits between the ultra-fast Micro model and the more capable Pro model, offering developers a balanced choice for multimodal tasks that do not require the highest reasoning complexity.
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Amazon Nova Lite runs on 2 different routes through the Opper gateway. Compare residency, zero data retention and training posture at a glance, with full data-handling detail per route below.
| Provider | Region | Zero data retention | Training | Input | Output | Cache read |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EU | No | $0.06 | $0.24 | Input price | ||
| US | No | $0.06 | $0.24 | Input price |
Amazon Nova Lite runs on a single route through the Opper gateway today, so its availability is that provider's availability.
Name a second model in the same request and the gateway tries it on retriable errors, so a busy hour never has to reach your users. Set up a fallback chain.
Measured over the last 30 days from each provider's official status feed via StatusGator. Refreshed hourly. See uptime for every provider Opper monitors.
Each route hosting Amazon Nova Lite has its own privacy posture, residency, and GDPR terms. Postures are maintained by Opper with a last-verification timestamp.
Zero data retention: nothing is logged, held for abuse monitoring or used for training. No training on customer data. EU; DPA available.
Zero data retention: nothing is logged, held for abuse monitoring or used for training. No training on customer data. US; SCCs; DPA available.
Independent benchmark scores — composite indices for reasoning, coding, and math, plus individual eval scores where available.
Call Amazon Nova Lite through the Opper gateway with one API key. Opper is drop-in compatible with the OpenAI, Anthropic and Google AI SDKs.
Amazon Nova Lite is a premium model on Opper. Sign up needs no credit card: you get an API key straight away and the free models work in the playground and the API. Add a card to use premium models, pay-as-you-go with no minimum.
Copy this and paste it into a coding agent like Claude Code, Cursor or Codex and it'll wire up Opper for you.
import OpenAI from "openai";const client = new OpenAI({apiKey: process.env.OPPER_API_KEY,baseURL: "https://api.opper.ai/v3/compat",});const completion = await client.chat.completions.create({model: "nova-lite",messages: [{ role: "user", content: "Hello" }],});console.log(completion.choices[0].message.content);
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