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Nova 2 Lite

CTX1M

53Quality

Reasoning · Vision · Tools

Input$0.33/M

Output$2.75/M

Multimodal reasoning model for visual analysis, planning, and tool use

PaidProprietary716/1044

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Nova 2 Lite

Multimodal reasoning model for visual analysis, planning, and tool use

amazon.nova-2-lite-v1:0

Type: Text
Quality: 53 · Top 47% on the LMArena Text
Context window: 1,000,000 tokens
Max output: 65,535 tokens
Input price: $0.33 / 1M tokens
Output price: $2.75 / 1M tokens
Cache read: $0.083 / 1M tokens
Cache write: $0.33 / 1M tokens
Released: Dec 2, 2025
Knowledge cutoff: Oct 2025
Takes in: Text, Image, Video, PDF
Puts out: Text
Reasoning: Yes
Tool calling: Yes
Structured output: No
File attachments: Yes
Access: Paid
License: Proprietary
Rarity: Uncommon
Set number: 716/1044

Open Amazon docs Quality 53 Where to run it 7 Evolution 2/2 Meet its creature Battle Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B

Weights aren’t public. Use is governed by Amazon’s terms. Specs from models.dev, last changed Oct 19, 2026. Official source: nova.amazon.com.

How good is it?

Public leaderboard scores for Nova 2 Lite, refreshed daily from Epoch AI and LMArena.

Top 47% of the 416 models on the LMArena Text: #195.

Quality is the share of a leaderboard’s models this one beats, from 0 to 100. Chat models are rated on Epoch AI’s Capabilities Index when it lists them, otherwise on LMArena; image and video models on LMArena’s image and video arenas.

Leaderboards

LMArena Text#195 of 416
People compare two anonymous answers and vote for the better one.1,362 rating
LMArena Text · Coding#187 of 411
The text arena’s coding prompts only.1,385 rating
LMArena Text · Math#207 of 400
The text arena’s math prompts only.1,359 rating
LMArena Text · Creative writing#226 of 414
The text arena’s creative writing prompts only.1,292 rating

Scores from LMArena, licensed CC BY 4.0. Boards list models under their own names, so a close match is shown with the name it was scored under. Credits

Where to run it

7 providers sell Nova 2 Lite through an API. Prices are per million tokens, cheapest first.

CheapestAmazon Bedrock$0.30 in · $2.50 out
Free to try1 providerNova
From the labNovaFree in · Free out

API providers

Provider	Input	Output	Context
NovaOfficialFree`nova-2-lite-v1`	Free	Free	1M
Amazon BedrockOfficialCheapest paid`global.amazon.nova-2-lite-v1:0`	$0.30	$2.50	1M
Kilo Gateway`amazon/nova-2-lite-v1`	$0.30	$2.50	1M
OpenRouter`amazon/nova-2-lite-v1`	$0.30	$2.50	1M
Vercel AI Gateway`amazon/nova-2-lite`	$0.30	$2.50	1M
Cortecs`nova-2-lite`	$0.37	$3.14	1M
NanoGPT`amazon/nova-2-lite-v1`	$0.51	$4.25	1M

From models.dev and Hugging Face, checked daily. Resellers’ listings can lag behind their price pages, so confirm with the provider before you commit.

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