Name: Nova 2 Lite
Brand: Amazon

Nova 2 Lite is

Amazon's language model with a 1.0M context window and up to 66K output tokens, available from 3 providers, starting at $0.300 / 1M input and $2.50 / 1M output. A fast, cost-effective multimodal reasoning model from Amazon Nova 2 that processes text, images, and video for everyday workloads.

Spec
Canonical ID	`amazon-nova-2-lite`
Type	Language
Status	Active
Creator	Amazon
Providers	Amazon Bedrock OpenRouter Vercel AI Gateway
Context Window	1.0M tokens
Max Output	66K tokens
Input Modalities	ImagePdfTextVideo
Output Modalities	Text
Reasoning Efforts	default
Release Date	2025-12-02 · 5 months ago

Intelligence Index	18.0 #149
Coding Index	12.5 #167
Math Index	33.7 #116
MMLU-Pro	0.7 #115
GPQA	0.6 #155
HLE	0.0 #317
LiveCodeBench	0.3 #133
IFBench	0.4 #125
Time to First Token	18.88s #328
SciCode	0.2 #196
AIME 2025	0.3 #116
LCR	0.2 #157
TerminalBench Hard	0.0 #164
TAU2	0.6 #69
Output TPS	160.0 #37

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

Provider	Standard			Batch		Flex			Priority
Provider	Input $ / 1M	Output $ / 1M	Cache Read $ / 1M	Input $ / 1M	Output $ / 1M	Input $ / 1M	Output $ / 1M	Cache Read $ / 1M	Input $ / 1M	Output $ / 1M	Cache Read $ / 1M
OpenRouter amazon/nova-2-lite-v1	$0.300	$2.50	N/A	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Vercel AI Gateway amazon/nova-2-lite	$0.300	$2.50	$0.075	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Amazon Bedrock global.amazon.nova-2-lite-v1:0	$0.330	$2.75	$0.083	$0.165	$1.38	$0.165	$1.38	$0.041	$0.578	$4.81	$0.144

Regional pricing

Provider-specific pricing that varies by region.

Amazon Bedrock

30 regions

Region	Standard			Batch		Flex			Priority
Region	Input $ / 1M	Output $ / 1M	Cache Read $ / 1M	Input $ / 1M	Output $ / 1M	Input $ / 1M	Output $ / 1M	Cache Read $ / 1M	Input $ / 1M	Output $ / 1M	Cache Read $ / 1M
Global
Global	$0.330	$2.75	$0.083	$0.165	$1.38	$0.165	$1.38	$0.041	$0.578	$4.81	$0.144
Cross-region
Europe (cross-region)/ eu	$0.528	$2.75	$0.093	$0.160	$1.38	—	—	—	—	—	—
Japan (cross-region)/ jp	$0.528	$2.75	$0.093	$0.160	$1.38	—	—	—	—	—	—
US (cross-region)/ us	$0.528	$2.75	$0.093	$0.160	$1.38	—	—	—	—	—	—
Asia Pacific
Asia Pacific (Jakarta)/ ap-southeast-3	$0.320	$2.64	—	$0.160	$1.31	$0.160	$1.32	$0.040	$0.560	$4.62	$0.140
Asia Pacific (Malaysia)/ ap-southeast-5	$0.410	$3.39	—	$0.205	$1.70	$0.205	$1.70	$0.051	$0.718	$5.93	$0.179
Asia Pacific (Melbourne)/ ap-southeast-4	$0.330	$2.71	—	$0.165	$1.35	$0.165	$1.35	$0.041	$0.578	$4.74	$0.144
Asia Pacific (Mumbai)/ ap-south-1	$0.350	$2.95	—	$0.175	$1.48	$0.175	$1.48	$0.044	$0.613	$5.16	$0.153
Asia Pacific (New Zealand)/ ap-southeast-6	$0.320	$2.63	—	$0.160	$1.31	$0.160	$1.31	$0.040	$0.560	$4.60	$0.140
Asia Pacific (Seoul)/ ap-northeast-2	$0.360	$2.96	—	$0.180	$1.48	$0.180	$1.48	$0.045	$0.630	$5.18	$0.158
Asia Pacific (Singapore)/ ap-southeast-1	$0.410	$3.39	—	$0.205	$1.70	$0.205	$1.70	$0.051	$0.718	$5.93	$0.179
Asia Pacific (Sydney)/ ap-southeast-2	$0.320	$2.63	—	$0.160	$1.31	$0.160	$1.31	$0.040	$0.560	$4.60	$0.140
Asia Pacific (Taipei)/ ap-east-2	$0.360	$3.01	—	$0.180	$1.50	$0.180	$1.50	$0.045	$0.630	$5.27	$0.158
Asia Pacific (Thailand)/ ap-southeast-7	$0.410	$3.39	—	$0.205	$1.70	$0.205	$1.70	$0.051	$0.718	$5.93	$0.179
Asia Pacific (Tokyo)/ ap-northeast-1	$0.396	$3.31	$0.099	$0.198	$1.66	$0.198	$1.66	$0.050	$0.693	$5.79	$0.173
Canada
Canada (Central)/ ca-central-1	$0.352	$2.97	$0.088	$0.176	$1.47	$0.176	$1.49	$0.044	$0.616	$5.20	$0.154
Canada West (Calgary)/ ca-west-1	$0.374	$3.09	$0.093	$0.187	$1.95	$0.187	$1.55	$0.047	$0.654	$5.41	$0.164
Europe
Europe (Ireland)/ eu-west-1	$0.374	$3.16	$0.093	$0.187	$1.58	$0.187	$1.58	$0.047	$0.654	$5.52	$0.164
Europe (London)/ eu-west-2	$0.420	$3.52	—	$0.210	$1.76	$0.210	$1.76	$0.052	$0.735	$6.16	$0.184
Europe (Frankfurt)/ eu-central-1	$0.429	$3.60	$0.107	$0.214	$1.98	$0.214	$1.80	$0.054	$0.751	$6.29	$0.188
Europe (Milan)/ eu-south-1	$0.528	$4.41	$0.132	$0.264	$2.21	$0.264	$2.21	$0.066	$0.924	$7.72	$0.231
Europe (Paris)/ eu-west-3	$0.484	$4.06	$0.121	$0.242	$2.03	$0.242	$2.03	$0.060	$0.847	$7.10	$0.212
Europe (Spain)/ eu-south-2	$0.363	$3.21	$0.091	$0.181	$1.51	$0.181	$1.60	$0.045	$0.635	$5.61	$0.159
Europe (Stockholm)/ eu-north-1	$0.363	$2.99	$0.091	$0.181	$1.50	$0.181	$1.50	$0.045	$0.635	$5.24	$0.159
Middle East
Israel (Tel Aviv)/ il-central-1	$0.380	$3.13	—	$0.190	$1.66	$0.190	$1.56	$0.048	$0.665	$5.48	$0.166
Middle East (UAE)/ me-central-1	$0.300	$2.50	—	$0.150	$1.25	$0.150	$1.25	$0.040	$0.525	$4.38	$0.140
US
US East (Ohio)/ us-east-2	$0.330	$2.75	$0.083	$0.160	$1.34	$0.165	$1.38	$0.041	$0.578	$4.81	$0.144
US East (Virginia)/ us-east-1	$0.330	$2.75	$0.083	$0.165	$1.38	$0.165	$1.38	$0.041	$0.578	$4.81	$0.144
US West (N. California)/ us-west-1	$0.429	$3.35	$0.107	$0.214	$1.68	$0.214	$1.68	$0.054	$0.751	$5.86	$0.188
US West (Oregon)/ us-west-2	$0.330	$2.75	$0.083	$0.160	$1.33	$0.165	$1.38	$0.041	$0.578	$4.81	$0.144

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Versions

Version	Released	Context	Input / 1M	Output / 1M	Status
Nova 2 Lite	2025-12-02	1.0M	$0.300	$2.50	Current
Nova Lite	2024-12-03	300K	$0.060	$0.240	Available

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Nova 2 Lite