Amazon: Nova 2 Lite

by Amazon Fast Long Context Multimodal

Nova 2 Lite is a fast, cost-effective reasoning model for everyday workloads that can process text, images, and videos to generate text. Nova 2 Lite demonstrates standout capabilities in processing...

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Specifications

Specifications for Nova 2 Lite
AttributeValue
Lab Amazon
Tags Fast Long Context Multimodal
Release Date 2025-12
Context Window 1,000,000 tokens
Input Price / 1M $0.30
Output Price / 1M $2.50
Input Modalities Text, Image, Video, File
Output Modalities Text

Strengths

  • 1M token context window for massive document processing
  • Fast inference for everyday workloads at reasonable pricing
  • Multimodal: processes text, images, and video inputs
  • Strong reasoning capabilities for a lite-tier model
  • Cost-effective at $0.30/$2.50 per 1M tokens

Weaknesses

  • Lite variant has reduced capability vs Nova flagship models
  • Higher output pricing ($2.50/M) limits long-generation use cases
  • AWS ecosystem lock-in for optimal performance

Best For

  • Document and video analysis at scale
  • Cost-conscious enterprise workloads
  • Everyday reasoning and content tasks
  • Multimodal applications requiring text+image+video input

In Depth: Nova 2 Lite

Summary

Nova 2 Lite is an AI model from Amazon.

Released 2025-12. It currently appears in the Overall category on LMRank. It supports Text, Image, Video, File input and produces Text output, with a context window of 1,000,000 tokens. Input pricing is $0.30 per 1M tokens and output is $2.50 per 1M tokens on OpenRouter.

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