Amazon: Nova 2 Lite
Analysis Summary
Amazon: Nova 2 Lite sits in the Legacy tier on our leaderboard, ranked #294 of 556 published models on overall intelligence. At $0.300 input and $2.50 output per 1M tokens, it is among the most expensive on the market. It offers an exceptionally large context window suited to long-document workflows and supports tool use, function calling, and vision.
Editorial notes
Amazon Nova 2 Lite supports video, image, and file inputs with a 1M token context window and tool use, but no benchmark data is available to verify reasoning or coding capability.
Assessed May 14, 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
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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
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