amazonCertifiedReleased 12/03/2024

Nova Lite

A very low cost multimodal model that is lightning fast for processing image, video, and text inputs.

View API reference ↓
Input / output priceFrom$0.060 / $0.24per 1M
24h uptime100.00%
import OpenAI from "openai";

const client = new OpenAI({
  baseURL: "https://api.inferencebureau.com/v1",
  apiKey: process.env.IB_API_KEY,
});

const res = await client.chat.completions.create({
  model: "amazon/nova-lite",
  messages: [{ role: "user", content: "Why is the sky blue?" }],
});

console.log(res.choices[0].message.content);

Providers

Dispatch routes requests across these providers and fails over between them without changing the model. Restrict or order providers with team Directives. Prices are gateway list prices before the platform fee.

ProviderContextMax outputLatencyThroughputInputOutputCacheCapabilitiesZDRNo trainingRegionsStatus
Amazon Bedrock300K8K0.4 s160 tps$0.060$0.24Read $0.015Write —4 featuresYesYesEUCertified

Uptime

24 hours

Request success rate per provider.

Amazon Bedrock100.00%

Throughput

last hour

P50 output tokens per second.

Amazon Bedrock160 tps

Latency

last hour

P50 time to first token.

Amazon Bedrock0.4 s

Getting started

Create a key on the API Keys page and set it as IB_API_KEY. See the quickstart.

import OpenAI from "openai";

const client = new OpenAI({
  baseURL: "https://api.inferencebureau.com/v1",
  apiKey: process.env.IB_API_KEY,
});

const res = await client.chat.completions.create({
  model: "amazon/nova-lite",
  messages: [{ role: "user", content: "Why is the sky blue?" }],
});

console.log(res.choices[0].message.content);

Top-level parameters

Standard Chat Completions parameters work as documented. These have model-specific behavior.

ParameterTypeRequiredDescription
modelstringYesModel ID in the form creator/model, e.g. amazon/nova-lite. Must be allowed by your team's Directives.
max_tokensnumberNoHard cap on generated tokens, and the basis for the balance reserved per request. Nova Lite supports up to 8,192 output tokens.
toolsTool[]NoFunction definitions the model can call. Tool calls are returned in choices[].message.tool_calls.
Supportedmax_tokenstemperaturestoptoolstool_choiceresponse_formatstructured_outputs

Input limits

InputSourcesLimits
Text—Prompt and response share the 300K-token context window
ImageURL, base64Sent as image_url content parts; counts as input tokens
PDFURL, base64Sent as file content parts; counts as input tokens

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