Amazon: Nova 2 Lite
Amazon Nova 2 Lite offers an impressive 1M token context window and broad multimodal support including video, making it technically versatile. However, with no benchmark data available, its reasoning and task performance cannot be assessed, limiting its score to the conservative range.
Assessment date: March 12, 2026
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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 documents, extracting information from videos, generating code, providing accurate grounded answers, and automating multi-step agentic workflows.
Capabilities
Architecture
| Modality | Text + Image + File + Video → Text |
| Tokenizer | Nova |
Model Information
Pricing
| Token Type | Cost per 1M tokens | Cost per 1K tokens |
|---|---|---|
| Input | $0.30 | $0.000300 |
| Output | $2.50 | $0.002500 |
Live Performance
Live endpoint metrics — refreshed every 30 minutes.
External Resources
Data sourced from OpenRouter API, Artificial Analysis and Hugging Face Open LLM Leaderboard. Scores are editorially curated by our team.
Last updated: March 13, 2026 7:52 pm