Amazon: Nova 2 Lite
Review
Amazon Nova 2 Lite offers an impressive 1M token context window and broad multimodal support including video, but without benchmark data its actual reasoning and coding capability cannot be assessed — making it a speculative choice for business use at this stage.
Assessment date: April 16, 2026
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Performance Profile
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..
Capabilities
Architecture
| Modality | Text + Image + File + Video → Text |
| Tokenizer | Nova |
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Model Information
| OpenRouter ID |
amazon/nova-2-lite-v1
|
| Provider | amazon |
| Release Date | December 2, 2025 |
| Context Length | 1,000,000 tokens |
| Max Completion | 65,535 tokens |
| Status | Active |
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.
