Head-to-Head Pricing Benchmark

AI21: Jamba Large 1.7 vs Amazon: Nova Lite 1.0

Side-by-side pricing and context window comparison for production model selection.

AI21's Jamba Large 1.7 offers a larger context window of 256,000 tokens but comes at a higher cost, with input priced at $2.00 per million tokens and output at $8.00 per million tokens, making it suitable for applications requiring extensive text generation or analysis. In contrast, Amazon's Nova Lite 1.0 has a slightly larger context window of 300,000 tokens and significantly lower pricing at $0.06 for input and $0.24 for output per million tokens, making it more cost-effective for use cases focused on shorter interactions or high-volume processing.

Input delta: $1.94Output delta: $7.76Monthly delta: $698

Default Recommendation (120M input + 60M output)

Amazon: Nova Lite 1.0 is lower-cost for the default monthly workload scenario.

Adjust the workload in the calculator below to see a live recommendation for your usage.

MetricAI21: Jamba Large 1.7Amazon: Nova Lite 1.0
Developerai21amazon
Context Window256,000300,000
Input Cost / 1M Tokens$2.00$0.0600
Output Cost / 1M Tokens$8.00$0.2400
Projected Monthly Cost$720$22
Vision❌ No✅ Yes
Tool Calling✅ Yes✅ Yes
Structured Output✅ Yes❌ No
Reasoning❌ No❌ No
Web Search❌ No❌ No
MMLU Score57.7N/A
GPQA39.0N/A

Price History

AI21: Jamba Large 1.7 Pricing Trend

Input / 1M tokens0.0%Output / 1M tokens0.0%
Mar 7Mar 16
$2.00$5.00$8.00Mar 7Mar 9Mar 12Mar 14Mar 16

Current Input / 1M

$2.00

Current Output / 1M

$8.00

Price History

Amazon: Nova Lite 1.0 Pricing Trend

Input / 1M tokens0.0%Output / 1M tokens0.0%
Mar 7Mar 16
$0.0600$0.1500$0.2400Mar 7Mar 9Mar 12Mar 14Mar 16

Current Input / 1M

$0.0600

Current Output / 1M

$0.2400

Cost Calculator

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AI21: Jamba Large 1.7

$720

per month

Amazon: Nova Lite 1.0

$22

per month

Lower cost

Live Recommendation

Amazon: Nova Lite 1.0 is lower-cost at 120M input + 60M output tokens/month.

Amazon: Nova Lite 1.0 saves $698/mo at this workload
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