amazon/nova-2-lite-v1 vs amazon/nova-micro-v1
For 100,000 calls of 2,000 in and 500 out, amazon/nova-micro-v1 is cheaper: $14.00 a month at OpenRouter, against $185.00 for amazon/nova-2-lite-v1 at OpenRouter — 13.2× the cost.
Cheapest on each
amazon/nova-2-lite-v1
$185.00/mo
cheapest, at OpenRouter — $0.3 in, $2.5 out per million
amazon/nova-micro-v1
$14.00/mo
cheapest, at OpenRouter — $0.035 in, $0.14 out per million
Aligned facts
Same rows on both sides, including the ones we cannot fill.
| Attribute | amazon/nova-2-lite-v1 | amazon/nova-micro-v1 |
|---|---|---|
| Context window | 1M | 128K |
| Accepts | Aa · IMG · VID · FILE | Aa |
| Sellers | 1 | 1 |
| Cheapest input rate | $0.3 / M | $0.035 / M |
| Cached input rate | ○ no answer | ○ no answer |
No quality or benchmark row appears here. We hold no throughput or accuracy measurement for either model, and a cost-per-quality figure built from a lab’s own claim would look authoritative and mean nothing.
Cost for this workload — both models, every seller
100,000 calls a month · 2,000 input and 500 output tokens each. Sellers of both models lead, cheapest combined cost first.
| Seller | amazon/nova-2-lite-v1 /mo | amazon/nova-micro-v1 /mo |
|---|---|---|
| OpenRouter | $185.002026-10-27 | $14.002026-10-27 |
Cheapest tier per seller, this workload only. In and output rates, and a cached prefix, are broken out in the cost calculator.