Which is cheaper, Nova Lite 1.0 or Qwen3 14B?

Nova Lite 1.0 is the cheaper of the two: one 1,000-word request costs about 113 toman, about 1.2× cheaper than Qwen3 14B.

Which one has the larger context window?

Nova Lite 1.0, with 300,000 tokens.

Nova Lite 1.0 vs Qwen3 14B

Both sit behind the same key and the same code on uttapen — the only thing that changes is the model string, so you can run each of them against your own workload without touching anything else. On cost, Nova Lite 1.0 comes out about 1.2× cheaper.

Feature	Nova Lite 1.0	Qwen3 14B
Provider	Amazon	Qwen (Alibaba)
Model id	amazon/nova-lite-v1	qwen/qwen3-14b
Context	300,000 tokens	131,072 tokens
Max output	5,120 tokens	16,384 tokens
Input / 1M tokens	17,408 toman	34,815 toman
Output / 1M tokens	69,630 toman	69,630 toman
≈ one 1,000-word request	113 toman	136 toman
Input caching	No	No
Image input	Yes	No
File input	No	No
Tool calling	Yes	Yes
JSON output	No	Yes
Reasoning mode	No	Yes

Which one for what?

Nova Lite 1.0

Whole documents or a codebase in a single request
Reading screenshots, invoices, and scanned forms
Agents that call your own APIs and database
High-volume work where cost per call decides

113 toman per 1,000 words · Model page

Qwen3 14B

Multi-step problems, maths, and tracking down a bug
Agents that call your own APIs and database
High-volume work where cost per call decides

136 toman per 1,000 words · Model page

Run both with the same code

Swap the model value between the two ids and send the same request twice; what each answer cost comes back in the X-Uttapen-Cost-Toman header.

curl https://api.uttapen.ir/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer sk-up-…" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "amazon/nova-lite-v1",
    "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Introduce yourself in one sentence."}],
    "stream": true
  }'

from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    base_url="https://api.uttapen.ir/v1",
    api_key="sk-up-…",
)

stream = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="amazon/nova-lite-v1",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Introduce yourself in one sentence."}],
    stream=True,
)
for chunk in stream:
    print(chunk.choices[0].delta.content or "", end="", flush=True)

import OpenAI from "openai";

const client = new OpenAI({
  baseURL: "https://api.uttapen.ir/v1",
  apiKey: "sk-up-…",
});

const stream = await client.chat.completions.create({
  model: "amazon/nova-lite-v1",
  messages: [{ role: "user", content: "Introduce yourself in one sentence." }],
  stream: true,
});
for await (const chunk of stream) {
  process.stdout.write(chunk.choices[0]?.delta?.content ?? "");
}

<?php
// composer require openai-php/client guzzlehttp/guzzle
$client = OpenAI::factory()
    ->withBaseUri('https://api.uttapen.ir/v1')
    ->withApiKey('sk-up-…')
    ->make();

$result = $client->chat()->create([
    'model' => 'amazon/nova-lite-v1',
    'messages' => [['role' => 'user', 'content' => 'Introduce yourself in one sentence.']],
]);
echo $result->choices[0]->message->content;

package main

import (
	"context"
	"fmt"

	"github.com/openai/openai-go"
	"github.com/openai/openai-go/option"
)

func main() {
	client := openai.NewClient(
		option.WithBaseURL("https://api.uttapen.ir/v1"),
		option.WithAPIKey("sk-up-…"),
	)
	resp, err := client.Chat.Completions.New(context.Background(), openai.ChatCompletionNewParams{
		Model:    "amazon/nova-lite-v1",
		Messages: []openai.ChatCompletionMessageParamUnion{openai.UserMessage("Introduce yourself in one sentence.")},
	})
	if err != nil {
		panic(err)
	}
	fmt.Println(resp.Choices[0].Message.Content)
}

model = "qwen/qwen3-14b"

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base_url = https://api.uttapen.ir/v1