Amazon Nova Lite API cost calculator
Amazon Nova Lite (Amazon Bedrock) is priced at $0.06 per million input tokens, $0.015 for cached input, and $0.24 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 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. | $0.0002 | $0.975 | $29.25 |
| RAG over documentsRetrieved context dominates — 12k in, 500 out, 30% cached. | $0.0007 | $1.02 | $30.51 |
| Coding agentGrowing context every turn — 20k in, 1.5k out, 80% cached. | $0.0008 | $2.52 | $75.60 |
| Batch classificationTiny prompts at volume through the Batch API — 800 in, 20 out. | $0.0000 | $5.28 | $158 |
Its blast radius when an agent loops
The coding-agent workload above at 30 requests a minute — $1.51 an hour — priced at each point a team usually finds out:
Hourly alert
$1.51
Next morning
$36.29
After a weekend
$90.72
Monthly invoice
$1,089