Nova 2 Lite is Amazon's language model with a 1.0M context window and up to 131K output tokens, available from 4 providers, starting at $0.3 / 1M input and $2.50 / 1M output. Amazon's lightweight multimodal Nova 2 model balancing cost and capability with vision and reasoning support.
Specifications
Canonical IDamazon-nova-2-lite
TypeLanguage
StatusActive
CreatorAmazonAmazon
Providers
Context Window1.0M tokens
Max Output131K tokens
Input ModalitiesImagePDFTextVideo
Output ModalitiesText
Reasoning Effortsdefault
Release Date · 11 months ago
Benchmarks
Coding Index
#125
Math Index
#11
MMLU-Pro
#89
GPQA
#145
HLE
#222
LiveCodeBench
#75
IFBench
#61
Time to First Token
#443
SciCode
#239
AIME 2025
#14
LCR
#215
TerminalBench Hard
#169
TAU2
#132
Output TPS
#50

Capabilities

Input4/5
Text✓
Image✓
Audio·
Video✓
PDF✓
Output1/5
Text✓
Image·
Audio·
Video·
Embedding·
Capabilities4/13
Reasoning✓
Adaptive Reasoning·
Function Calling✓
Parallel Function Calling·
Structured Outputs✓
Native JSON Schema·
Web Search·
URL Context·
Computer Use·
Code Execution·
File Search·
Prompt Caching✓
Assistant Prefill·

Pricing by Provider

US Dollar ($)
Per 1M tokens
ProviderStandardFlexFastBatch
Input
$ / 1M
Output
$ / 1M
Cache Read
$ / 1M
Input
$ / 1M
Output
$ / 1M
Cache Read
$ / 1M
Input
$ / 1M
Output
$ / 1M
Cache Read
$ / 1M
Input
$ / 1M
Output
$ / 1M
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Amazon Bedrock
global.amazon.nova-2-lite-v1:0
$0.33$2.75$0.0825$0.165$1.38$0.0413$0.578$4.81$0.144$0.165$1.38
Empiriolabs
empiriolabs/nova-lite-2
$0.38$3.16$0.213————————
OpenRouter logo
OpenRouter
amazon/nova-2-lite-v1
$0.3$2.50N/A————————
Vercel AI Gateway logo
Vercel AI Gateway
amazon/nova-2-lite
$0.33$2.75$0.0825————————

Cost Calculator

US Dollar ($)
Preset:

Versions

VersionReleasedContextInput / 1MOutput / 1MStatus
Nova 2 Lite1.0M$0.300$2.50Current
Nova Lite 2————Available
Nova Lite 2 Reasoning Low————Available
Nova Lite 2 Reasoning Medium————Available
Nova Lite317K$0.060$0.240Available

Other Models

ModelTierReleasedContextInput / 1MOutput / 1M
Nova 3—————
Nova 3 General—————
Nova 3 Medical—————
Nova 3 Medical—————
Nova 3 Multilingual—————
Nova Sonic 2.5—256K$0.330$2.75
Nova Sonic 2—1.0M$0.330$2.75
Nova 2—————
Nova 2 ATC—————
Nova 2 Automotive—————

Model IDs

amazon-nova-2-lite
amazon.nova-2-lite-v1:0
amazon.nova-2-lite-v1:0:256k
amazon/nova-2-lite
amazon/nova-2-lite-v1
apac.amazon.nova-2-lite-v1:0
empiriolabs/nova-lite-2
eu.amazon.nova-2-lite-v1:0
global.amazon.nova-2-lite-v1:0
jp.amazon.nova-2-lite-v1:0
nova-2-0-lite
nova-2-0-lite-reasoning
nova-2-0-lite-reasoning-low
nova-2-0-lite-reasoning-medium
nova-textgeneration-lite-v2
openrouter/amazon/nova-2-lite-v1
us.amazon.nova-2-lite-v1:0