vs
2:0
overall capability wins (0 ties across 2 scored). Amazon Nova Lite leads overall.
- Pricing3:0
- Speed2:0
- Specs2:0
Verdict
Amazon Nova Lite offers ~36.6x larger context (300K vs 8K); Amazon Nova Lite is ~2.9x cheaper on a blended token basis than Amazon Titan Text Express.
- Amazon Nova Lite offers ~36.6x larger context (300K vs 8K)
- Amazon Nova Lite is ~2.9x cheaper on a blended token basis than Amazon Titan Text Express
Cost for 1M in + 250K out
Illustrative chat workload at primary-provider list prices.
- Amazon Nova Lite
- $0.12
- Amazon Titan Text Express
- $0.35
Amazon Nova Lite is about 2.9x cheaper on this workload.
Price per 1M tokens
Full comparison
Organization
Amazon
Amazon
Family
Amazon
Amazon
License
Proprietary
Proprietary
Open weights
No
No
Release
Dec 3, 2024
Sep 28, 2023
Knowledge cutoff
-
-
API / provider
AWS Bedrock
Amazon Bedrock
Modalities
text, image, video → text
text → text
Specs
Context window
300K
8K
Max output
10K
8K
Parameters
—
—
Pricing
Input $/1M
$0.06
$0.20
Output $/1M
$0.24
$0.60
Blended $/1M (3∶1)
$0.10
$0.30
Speed
tok/s
160
90
TTFT (s)
0.2
0.3
Reasoning
MMLU-Pro
—
—
GPQA Diamond
—
—
Humanity's Last Exam
—
—
AIME 2025
—
—
MATH-500
—
—
Humanity's Last Exam (with tools)
—
—
AA-Omniscience Accuracy
—
—
AA-LCR v1.1
—
—
CritPt
—
—
MMMU-Pro
—
—
IFBench
—
—
Chartography
—
—
Chartography (With Tools)
—
—
Coding
SWE-bench Verified
—
—
SWE-bench Pro
—
—
SWE-bench Multilingual
—
—
LiveCodeBench
—
—
Terminal-Bench 2.1
—
—
Aider Polyglot
—
—
Terminal-Bench 3
—
—
BigCodeBench
—
—
SciCode
—
—
CursorBench
—
—
SWE-Rebench
—
—
NL2Repo-Bench
—
—
DeepSWE
—
—
WebDev Arena
—
—
Terminal-Bench 4.0
—
—
CursorBench 4.0
—
—
FrontierCode v1.1 (Main)
—
—
Arena
LMArena Elo
—
—
| Metric | Amazon Nova Lite | Amazon Titan Text Express | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|
| Identity | |||
| Organization | Amazon | Amazon | — |
| Family | Amazon | Amazon | — |
| License | Proprietary | Proprietary | — |
| Open weights | No | No | — |
| Release | Dec 3, 2024 | Sep 28, 2023 | — |
| Knowledge cutoff | - | - | — |
| API / provider | AWS Bedrock | Amazon Bedrock | — |
| Modalities | text, image, video → text | text → text | — |
| Specs | |||
| Context window | 300K | 8K | A +292K |
| Max output | 10K | 8K | A +2K |
| Parameters | — | — | — |
| Pricing | |||
| Input $/1M | $0.06 | $0.20 | A +$0.14 |
| Output $/1M | $0.24 | $0.60 | A +$0.36 |
| Blended $/1M (3∶1) | $0.10 | $0.30 | A +$0.20 |
| Speed | |||
| tok/s | 160 | 90 | A +70 |
| TTFT (s) | 0.2 | 0.3 | A +0.10 |
| Reasoning | |||
| MMLU-Pro | — | — | — |
| GPQA Diamond | — | — | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam | — | — | — |
| AIME 2025 | — | — | — |
| MATH-500 | — | — | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam (with tools) | — | — | — |
| AA-Omniscience Accuracy | — | — | — |
| AA-LCR v1.1 | — | — | — |
| CritPt | — | — | — |
| MMMU-Pro | — | — | — |
| IFBench | — | — | — |
| Chartography | — | — | — |
| Chartography (With Tools) | — | — | — |
| Coding | |||
| SWE-bench Verified | — | — | — |
| SWE-bench Pro | — | — | — |
| SWE-bench Multilingual | — | — | — |
| LiveCodeBench | — | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | — | — | — |
| Aider Polyglot | — | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 3 | — | — | — |
| BigCodeBench | — | — | — |
| SciCode | — | — | — |
| CursorBench | — | — | — |
| SWE-Rebench | — | — | — |
| NL2Repo-Bench | — | — | — |
| DeepSWE | — | — | — |
| WebDev Arena | — | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 4.0 | — | — | — |
| CursorBench 4.0 | — | — | — |
| FrontierCode v1.1 (Main) | — | — | — |
| Arena | |||
| LMArena Elo | — | — | — |
Amazon Nova Lite
- Context
- 300K / 10K out
- Parameters
- —
- Price
- $0.06 / $0.24
- Speed
- 160 tok/s · 0.2s TTFT
- Modalities
- text, image, video → text
- License
- Proprietary
Cheapest Nova multimodal SKU for high-throughput Bedrock pipelines.
Amazon Titan Text Express
- Context
- 8K / 8K out
- Parameters
- —
- Price
- $0.20 / $0.60
- Speed
- 90 tok/s · 0.3s TTFT
- Modalities
- text → text
- License
- Proprietary
Original Titan express chat model on Bedrock — still used for simple enterprise summarization.
Benchmark charts
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