Amazon Nova 2 Lite API cost calculator
Amazon Nova 2 Lite (Amazon Bedrock) is priced at $0.33 per million input tokens, $0.0825 for cached input, and $2.75 per million output tokens — half that through the Batch API. Verified 2026-10-01 against Amazon Bedrock's pricing page.
US East, Standard tier, in-region pricing. Other regions, cross-region/global routing, and the Priority, Flex, and Batch tiers are priced differently.
What Amazon Nova 2 Lite costs for common workloads
| Workload | Per request | Per day | Per month |
|---|---|---|---|
| Support chatbotShort turns with a reused system prompt — 3k in, 400 out, 60% cached. | $0.0016 | $8.22 | $247 |
| RAG over documentsRetrieved context dominates — 12k in, 500 out, 30% cached. | $0.0044 | $6.67 | $200 |
| Coding agentGrowing context every turn — 20k in, 1.5k out, 80% cached. | $0.0068 | $20.30 | $609 |
| Batch classificationTiny prompts at volume through the Batch API — 800 in, 20 out. | $0.0002 | $31.90 | $957 |
Its blast radius when an agent loops
The coding-agent workload above at 30 requests a minute — $12.18 an hour — priced at each point a team usually finds out:
Hourly alert
$12.18
Next morning
$292
After a weekend
$731
Monthly invoice
$8,767