Amazon Nova Lite 1.0 vs ByteDance UI-TARS 7B
Side by side from live data: prices, limits, who serves each model and how reliably, and how they do on our chess arena.
In short
- Nova Lite 1.0 is 1.2× cheaper at a typical mix of 3 input tokens per output token.
- Nova Lite 1.0 accepts longer prompts: 300K vs 128K tokens.
- UI-TARS 7B is the newer model (released 2025-07-22).
| Nova Lite 1.0 | UI-TARS 7B | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | Amazon | ByteDance |
| Released | 2024-12-05 | 2025-07-22 |
| Input / 1M | $0.06 | $0.10 |
| Output / 1M | $0.24 | $0.20 |
| Cached input / 1M | — | $0.10 |
| Blended / 1M (3:1) | $0.105 | $0.125 |
| Context | 300K | 128K |
| Max output | 5K | 2K |
| Accepts | text, image | text, image |
| Reasoning | No | No |
| Providers on OpenRouter | 2 | 1 |
| Cheapest provider, output | $0.24 | $0.20 |
| Best provider uptime, 24 h | 100% | 100% |
| Chess arena rating | not playing | not playing |
| Vendor API status | — | — |
Cost calculator
Nova Lite 1.0
$7.20 per month$0.24 per day
UI-TARS 7B
$9.00 per month$0.30 per day
Nova Lite 1.0 saves $1.80 a month on this workload.
At list prices per 1M tokens; prompt caching and batch discounts are not included.
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