How does Nova Lite 1.0 rank among AI models?
Nova Lite 1.0 is a superseded version and is not on the current board as of 22 September 2026. Its archive position, where one exists, is shown on the page; the newer version carries the current rank.
Amazon·amazon/nova-lite-v1
Nova Lite 1.0 is ModelCap archive rank #316 (Measured), from the ModelCap Index as of 22 Sept 2026, 02:49 UTC.
Nova Lite 1.0 listed OpenRouter input price is $0.06 per 1M tokens and listed output price is $0.24 per 1M tokens, from OpenRouter listed prices as of 22 Sept 2026, 02:49 UTC.
Nova Lite 1.0 has a published context limit of 300K tokens in the ModelCap catalogue as of 22 Sept 2026, 02:49 UTC.
Nova Lite 1.0 has 2 published OpenRouter serving endpoints, from OpenRouter as of 22 Sept 2026, 02:49 UTC.
Nova Lite 1.0 weight access is api only, from ModelCap classification of published repository metadata as of 22 Sept 2026, 02:49 UTC.
Snapshot facts · download the public dataset · methodology
ModelCap Index · All-versions archive
14.9#316
Measured · 61% support · score interval 9.8–20.0
Evidence as of 13 Sept 2026, 00:00 UTC
Superseded by Nova 2 Lite. It no longer holds a current-board position; its all-versions archive rank is #316.
Input
$0.06
per 1M tokens
Output
$0.24
per 1M tokens
Context
300K
tokens
Providers
2
endpoints
Gateway spend
—
latest · Vercel share
Providers
Uptime measured over the last 30 minutesOther versions (1)
ModelCap Index · All-versions archive
Methodology14.9
Measured · 2 public benchmark observations across 2 boards
All-versions archive
#316
- Public rank basis
- Measured (measured)
- Index support
- 61.4% · strong
- Index interval
- 9.8–20.0
- Rank posterior
- Not available
- Top 5 / Top 10 probability
- Not available / Not available
- Posterior as of
- Snapshot timestamp unavailable
- Evidence as of
- 13 Sept 2026, 00:00 UTC
- Identity binding
- Exact catalogue product · amazon/amazon/nova-lite-v1 · aggregates disclosed benchmark configurations · endpoint configuration not claimed
- Index observations used
- 2
- Qualified Index evidence point
- 14.9
Bayesian Evidence Score · measured evidence input only
BES normalizes admitted public benchmark evidence for measured Index rows. Its legacy score and observables prior do not define the public language rank.
- Observed capability
- 14.9
- Evidence status
- confirmed · 77% mass
- General preference
- 14.8
- Coding
- 15.4
- Agents & tools
- —
- Reasoning
- —
- Evidence breadth
- 92%
- Evidence coverage
- 61%
Market and catalogue signals · secondary, never the language Index rank
- Usage (OpenRouter popularity)
- 11.2
- Liquidity (providers × uptime)
- 95.0
- Open reach (HF downloads)
- —
- Surface (context / tools / modalities)
- 66.2
- Freshness
- 8.2
- · OpenRouter popularity #169
- · 1 live provider
- · Catalogue: context 300000, tools, modalities Text/Image
- · First seen 2024-12-05
These adoption and deployment observations remain context only. They do not change this model's ModelCap Index score or rank.
BES evidence selected · measured input only
- Arena Overall14.8
- Arena Coding15.4
The bounded 0–100 capability score blends each source’s competitive placement with its published achievement, then combines capability families. Evidence breadth adds a modest uncertainty adjustment; price and popularity are not part of benchmark-led rank.
Deployment readiness
Metadata index37.9
limited · 56% metadata coverage
- Artifact reproducibility
- 0.0
- Access & legal clarity
- 30.3
- Deployability
- 71.6
- Evaluation provenance
- 52.0
Missing: artifactReproducibility.revision-sha, artifactReproducibility.architecture-and-model-type, artifactReproducibility.parameter-count, artifactReproducibility.serialized-weight-format, artifactReproducibility.base-lineage, accessLegalClarity.declared-license, accessLegalClarity.resolvable-license-terms, evaluationProvenance.evaluation-dataset-revisions.
A metadata completeness and deployability index—not a safety certification, quality grade, or production-readiness claim.
Market activity
Venue coverage- Market Gravity
- 37.8
- OpenRouter weekly popularity
- #169 of 322
Market Gravity uses OpenRouter’s full-catalogue popularity order. Sparse Vercel top-ten observations appear only when published and do not affect the score.
Arena preference
- Status
- Ranked
- Source
- LMArena
- Official rank
- #304 of 402
- Rating
- 1260.3
- 95% confidence interval
- 1255–1266
- Votes
- 19K
- Source published at
- 13 Sept 2026, 00:00 UTC
- Category
- overall
- Identity match confidence
- 98%
Market Gravity breakdown
- Usage55%
- 11.2
- Liquidity25%
- 95.0
- Open reach15%
- 50.0
- Freshness5%
- 8.2
OpenRouter weekly popularity across the full model catalogue.
Independent providers versus the model's open or closed cohort, weighted by uptime.
Hugging Face 30-day downloads for open models; neutral for closed models.
Time since first public availability, on a six-month half-life.
Specification
- Context window
- 300K tokens
- Max output
- 5K tokens
- Inputs
- Text, Image
- Outputs
- Text
- Tokenizer
- Nova
- Cached input tokens
- Not offered
- First seen on OpenRouter
- 5 Dec 2024
- Knowledge cutoff
- 2024-10-31
Capabilities
- Not supported: Reasoning
- Supported: Tool use
- Not supported: Structured output
- Not supported: Response format
- Supported: Moderated
Benchmark leaderboards featuring Nova Lite 1.0
All leaderboardsNova Lite 1.0: common questions
How much does Nova Lite 1.0 cost per 1M tokens?
Nova Lite 1.0 is listed at $0.06 per 1M input tokens and $0.24 per 1M output tokens as of 22 September 2026. Prices come from the OpenRouter catalogue and re-observe on every refresh. For 1,000 requests using 2,000 input and 500 output tokens each, the listed rates imply $0.24 total (2M input + 0.5M output). This excludes caching, batch discounts, prompt-length tiers, tool charges and retries; verify the chosen endpoint's rate and limits before budgeting.
What is the context window of Nova Lite 1.0?
Nova Lite 1.0 has a published context window of 300K tokens (300,000) and a maximum output of 5K tokens. Individual providers can serve less than the published maximum; the providers table lists each endpoint's own limit.
Is Nova Lite 1.0 open-weight?
API only. No downloadable model weights are linked in the current source data; access is through a hosted API or product.
Which API providers serve Nova Lite 1.0?
One provider serves Nova Lite 1.0 through OpenRouter as of 22 September 2026: Amazon Bedrock. Each provider's price, context limit, quantization and measured uptime are in the providers table above.
Which benchmarks has Nova Lite 1.0 been evaluated on?
Nova Lite 1.0 has published results on 1 public board tracked by ModelCap as of 22 September 2026: Arena coding 1306 (#294 of 397). Each board page ranks every tracked model on that benchmark; the ModelCap Index combines them with published uncertainty.
When was Nova Lite 1.0 released?
Nova Lite 1.0 first appeared in the catalogue on 5 Dec 2024, with a published knowledge cutoff of 2024-10-31. It has since been superseded by Nova 2 Lite. Rank and price movements since then are recorded on the site's changes feed.