How much does Nova 2 Lite cost per month?

For a chatbot handling 10,000 requests a day with 1,000 input and 500 output tokens each, Nova 2 Lite costs about $0 per month at Nova's list prices (free input, free output).

Does Nova 2 Lite support prompt caching?

No cache read price is published for Nova 2 Lite.

How long is Nova 2 Lite's context window?

Nova 2 Lite accepts up to 1,000,000 tokens (1M) of context and returns up to 64,000 tokens per response.

Nova 2 Lite API Pricing

Nova · released Dec 1, 2025 · 1M context · API model ID nova-2-lite-v1

Nova 2 Lite by Nova API pricing: free input and free output (provider list price via models.dev, Oct 10, 2026).

Prices

Nova 2 Lite prices, USD per 1M tokens
Price	USD per 1M tokens
Input	Free
Output	Free
Cache read	Not published
Cache write	Not published
Reasoning output	Free

Nova's list price for its own API, as compiled by models.dev and checked Oct 10, 2026, 09:00 UTC. Prices on cloud platforms and resellers can differ. Provider documentation

Estimated monthly cost

per month

per day: $0
per request: $0

Cost = input tokens × input price + output tokens × output price, 30 days a month. Cached input uses the cache read price. Cache write fees are not included.

Compare this workload across models

Monthly cost by workload

Workload	Per month
Chatbot1,000 in / 500 out tokens, 10,000 requests a day	$0/mo
RAG8,000 in / 500 out tokens, 5,000 requests a day	$0/mo
Coding agent50,000 in / 2,000 out tokens, 1,000 requests a day, 80% cached input	$0/mo

Context and capabilities

Context: 1,000,000 tokens
Max output: 64,000 tokens
Input: text, image, video, pdf
Output: text
Knowledge cutoff: Not published
Open weights: No
Tool calling: Yes
Reasoning: Yes
Structured outputs: No

Capabilities and limits as listed by models.dev.

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Price history

No price changes since we started tracking on Oct 8, 2026.

Questions

How much does Nova 2 Lite cost per month?: For a chatbot handling 10,000 requests a day with 1,000 input and 500 output tokens each, Nova 2 Lite costs about $0 per month at Nova's list prices (free input, free output).
Does Nova 2 Lite support prompt caching?: No cache read price is published for Nova 2 Lite.
How long is Nova 2 Lite's context window?: Nova 2 Lite accepts up to 1,000,000 tokens (1M) of context and returns up to 64,000 tokens per response.