Fast, cost-effective multimodal reasoning model for text, images, documents, and video on a 1M context (long docs and ~90 min clips).
AmazonText Generation1M contextProprietary EndpointFast, cost-effective multimodal reasoning model for text, images, documents, and video on a 1M context (long docs and ~90 min clips).
nova-lite-2POST /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 2 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-2. 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-2",
"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-2",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Write a haiku about the ocean."}],
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)Request parameters supported by the Nova Lite 2 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. |
| enable_reasoning | boolean | true | - | Enable the model's reasoning mode. Slower but improves multi-step problems. |
| enable_thinking | boolean | true | - | Enable extended reasoning before the final answer. Alias of enable_reasoning. |
| reasoning_effort | enum | medium | low, medium, high | Reasoning effort level (low | medium | high). Higher = more thinking time. |
| reasoning | string | - | - | Responses API reasoning object: {"effort":"low|medium|high"} |
| 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... |
Reasoning traces are NOT exposed from AWS. Video uploads up to ~1 GB.
On EmpirioLabs, Nova Lite 2 is billed pay as you go: Input $0.38 per 1M prompt tokens; Output $3.16 per 1M generated tokens; Cached input $0.2128 per 1M tokens. The live rate card on this page always matches what the API charges.
Nova Lite 2 supports a 1M-token context window with up to 32,000 output tokens per response.
Yes. Nova Lite 2 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-2.
Yes. The EmpirioLabs playground runs Nova Lite 2 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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