Low-cost multimodal foundation model for text, images, and video on a 300K context (up to ~30 min video), tuned for speed and affordability.
AmazonText Generation300K contextProprietary EndpointLow-cost multimodal foundation model for text, images, and video on a 300K context (up to ~30 min video), tuned for speed and affordability.
Also known as Nova Lite, Nova-Lite-1.0
nova-lite-1-0POST /v1/chat/completionsPOST /v1/responsesPOST /v1/messagesLive pay-as-you-go rates from the EmpirioLabs catalog. You are billed only for what you use, with no monthly minimum.
Nova Lite 1.0 serves the OpenAI-compatible Chat Completions API. Point any OpenAI SDK at https://api.empiriolabs.ai/v1 with your EmpirioLabs API key and use the model id nova-lite-1-0. Get an API key from the EmpirioLabs dashboard.
curl https://api.empiriolabs.ai/v1/chat/completions \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $EMPIRIOLABS_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"model": "nova-lite-1-0",
"messages": [
{"role": "user", "content": "Write a haiku about the ocean."}
]
}'from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(
base_url="https://api.empiriolabs.ai/v1",
api_key="YOUR_EMPIRIOLABS_API_KEY",
)
response = client.chat.completions.create(
model="nova-lite-1-0",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Write a haiku about the ocean."}],
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)Request parameters supported by the Nova Lite 1.0 API on EmpirioLabs. Defaults apply when a field is omitted.
| Parameter | Type | Default | Range / values | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| temperature | number | 0.7 | 0 to 2 | Sampling temperature. 0 = deterministic, 2 = maximum randomness. |
| top_p | number | 0.9 | 0 to 1 | Nucleus sampling probability mass. Lower = more focused. |
| max_tokens | number | 4096 | 1 to 65536 | Maximum tokens in the response. |
| stop | string | - | - | Up to 4 strings where the model will stop generating further tokens. |
| web_search_linkup | boolean | false | - | Optional web search powered by Linkup. When enabled, recent web sources are retrieved using your latest user message as the query and provided to the model as... |
| disable_formatting | boolean | false | - | When enabled, the gateway will not append the "Sources" footer to assistant responses that used Linkup web search. Useful when the model output is piped to another... |
On EmpirioLabs, Nova Lite 1.0 is billed pay as you go: Input $0.069 per 1M prompt tokens; Output $0.28 per 1M generated tokens; Cached input $0.0386 per 1M tokens. The live rate card on this page always matches what the API charges.
Nova Lite 1.0 supports a 300K-token context window with up to 5,000 output tokens per response.
Yes. Nova Lite 1.0 serves the OpenAI-compatible Chat Completions API, so existing OpenAI SDKs work by pointing base_url at https://api.empiriolabs.ai/v1 and setting the model id to nova-lite-1-0.
Yes. The EmpirioLabs playground runs Nova Lite 1.0 in the browser with the same parameters the API exposes, so you can test prompts before writing code.
Create an EmpirioLabs account, then generate a key under API Keys in the dashboard. Billing is pay-as-you-go credits, so you only pay for the requests you make.
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