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Nova Lite 1.0 vs Llama 3.3 70B Instruct

For a typical chat reply (2,000 tokens in, 400 out), Llama 3.3 70B Instruct costs 1.5× as much as Nova Lite 1.0: $0.328 against $0.216 per 1,000 requests at list price on 2026-09-28.

Nova Lite 1.0Llama 3.3 70B Instruct
Input, per 1M tokens$0.06$0.10
Output, per 1M tokens$0.24$0.32
Context window300K131K
Classification or routing (600 tokens in, 10 out), per 1,000$0.0384$0.0632
Chat reply (2,000 in, 400 out), per 1,000$0.216$0.328
Retrieval-augmented answer (8,000 in, 500 out), per 1,000$0.60$0.96
Confidence signalnoyes
Tool callingyesyes
BANKING77, correct of 400not measured305

Which one should carry your traffic?

If Nova Lite 1.0 answers your requests as well as Llama 3.3 70B Instruct, moving that traffic saves 34% on chat-shaped requests. Averages cannot tell you whether it does for your requests. Nova Lite 1.0 does not expose a confidence signal through OpenRouter, so Gimbix would test it as a full replacement rather than a first answer.

Nova Lite 1.0 profile · Llama 3.3 70B Instruct profile · Measure it on your traffic