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Amazon: Nova 2 Lite

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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.

Modalities
In / Out Price
$0.30 / $2.50per 1M
Context
1.0M
Released
Dec 2, 2025
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ProvidersPricingPerformanceUptimeBenchmarksAppsActivityFAQExplore

Providers

Different companies host the same model. OpenRouter routes your request to one of them based on the routing mode you pick — Balanced (price + speed), Nitro (fastest), Floor (cheapest), or Exacto (highest tool-calling accuracy).

Pricing

The average price customers actually pay for this model, next to the prices providers post. Caching and discounts mean the price actually paid is often well below the listed one.

Performance

Throughput is how fast the model writes (tokens per second — higher is better). Latency is total round-trip time (lower is better). TTFT is time-to-first-token — how long before you see anything appear (lower is better).

Uptime

Uptime is the percentage of the past 3 days that at least one provider was responding to requests. Availability is the percentage of time that inference was successfully served. OpenRouter continuously monitors and uses the next-best provider when one returns an error.

Benchmarks

Scores on standardized evaluations and this model’s own outputs on shared benchmark prompts. Higher percentages are better — and each rank shows where this model lands among the models evaluated on that source.

Benchmark score summary for Amazon: Nova 2 Lite (Artificial Analysis)
SourceBenchmarkScore
Artificial AnalysisNova 2.0 Lite (high) Coding Index23.0
Artificial AnalysisNova 2.0 Lite (high) GPQA Diamond81.1%
Artificial AnalysisNova 2.0 Lite (high) HLE11.6%
Artificial AnalysisNova 2.0 Lite (high) IFBench70.7%
Artificial AnalysisNova 2.0 Lite (high) τ²-Bench Telecom72.8%
Artificial AnalysisNova 2.0 Lite (high) AA-LCR60.3%
Artificial AnalysisNova 2.0 Lite (high) GDPval-AA0.0%
Artificial AnalysisNova 2.0 Lite (high) CritPt0.3%
Artificial AnalysisNova 2.0 Lite (high) Terminal-Bench Hard16.7%
Artificial AnalysisNova 2.0 Lite (high) AA-Omniscience Accuracy19.0%
Artificial AnalysisNova 2.0 Lite (high) AA-Omniscience Non-Hallucination Rate8.6%
Artificial AnalysisNova 2.0 Lite (Non-reasoning) GPQA Diamond60.3%
Artificial AnalysisNova 2.0 Lite (Non-reasoning) HLE2.9%
Artificial AnalysisNova 2.0 Lite (Non-reasoning) IFBench40.5%
Artificial AnalysisNova 2.0 Lite (Non-reasoning) τ²-Bench Telecom62.0%
Artificial AnalysisNova 2.0 Lite (Non-reasoning) AA-LCR18.7%
Artificial AnalysisNova 2.0 Lite (Non-reasoning) CritPt0.0%
Artificial AnalysisNova 2.0 Lite (Non-reasoning) Terminal-Bench Hard6.8%
Artificial AnalysisNova 2.0 Lite (Non-reasoning) AA-Omniscience Accuracy14.0%
Artificial AnalysisNova 2.0 Lite (Non-reasoning) AA-Omniscience Non-Hallucination Rate14.1%
Artificial AnalysisNova 2.0 Lite (medium) GPQA Diamond76.8%
Artificial AnalysisNova 2.0 Lite (medium) HLE9.0%
Artificial AnalysisNova 2.0 Lite (medium) IFBench68.5%
Artificial AnalysisNova 2.0 Lite (medium) τ²-Bench Telecom75.7%
Artificial AnalysisNova 2.0 Lite (medium) AA-LCR60.0%
Artificial AnalysisNova 2.0 Lite (medium) CritPt0.0%
Artificial AnalysisNova 2.0 Lite (medium) Terminal-Bench Hard17.4%
Artificial AnalysisNova 2.0 Lite (medium) AA-Omniscience Accuracy18.2%
Artificial AnalysisNova 2.0 Lite (medium) AA-Omniscience Non-Hallucination Rate8.2%
Artificial AnalysisNova 2.0 Lite (low) GPQA Diamond69.8%
Artificial AnalysisNova 2.0 Lite (low) HLE4.0%
Artificial AnalysisNova 2.0 Lite (low) IFBench61.2%
Artificial AnalysisNova 2.0 Lite (low) τ²-Bench Telecom71.9%
Artificial AnalysisNova 2.0 Lite (low) AA-LCR54.3%
Artificial AnalysisNova 2.0 Lite (low) CritPt0.0%
Artificial AnalysisNova 2.0 Lite (low) Terminal-Bench Hard3.8%
Artificial AnalysisNova 2.0 Lite (low) AA-Omniscience Accuracy17.6%
Artificial AnalysisNova 2.0 Lite (low) AA-Omniscience Non-Hallucination Rate12.9%

Apps

Public apps that send the most traffic to this model. Good signal for what real production workloads look like — and a hint at which use cases this model is best suited for.

Activity

Token volume and request traffic to this model over time.

API

Drop-in code to call this model. OpenRouter's API is OpenAI-compatible — most SDKs work by just swapping the base URL. The only thing that changes between models is the model slug below.

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Frequently asked questions

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.

Nova 2 Lite costs $0.30/M input tokens and $2.50/M output tokens.

Nova 2 Lite has a 1,000,000 token context window. It supports up to 65,535 completion tokens.

Yes. Nova 2 Lite accepts tools and tool_choice for function calling. It does not support response_format, so JSON output is not enforced.

Nova 2 Lite accepts text, images, video, and files such as PDFs as input and returns text.

Nova Premier 1.0, Nova Lite 1.0, Nova Micro 1.0 and 1 more are other text models from Amazon.

Nova 2 Lite was released on December 2, 2025.

More models from Amazon

Nova Premier 1.0

Amazon Nova Premier is the most capable of Amazon’s multimodal models for complex reasoning tasks and for use as the best teacher for distilling custom models.

Text1M context$2.50 / $12.50
Nova Lite 1.0

Amazon Nova Lite 1.0 is a very low-cost multimodal model from Amazon that focused on fast processing of image, video, and text inputs to generate text output. Amazon Nova Lite can handle real-time customer interactions, document analysis, and visual question-answering tasks with high accuracy.

With an input context of 300K tokens, it can analyze multiple images or up to 30 minutes of video in a single input.

Text300K context$0.06 / $0.24
Nova Micro 1.0

Amazon Nova Micro 1.0 is a text-only model that delivers the lowest latency responses in the Amazon Nova family of models at a very low cost. With a context length of 128K tokens and optimized for speed and cost, Amazon Nova Micro excels at tasks such as text summarization, translation, content classification, interactive chat, and brainstorming. It has simple mathematical reasoning and coding abilities.

Text128K context$0.035 / $0.14
Nova Pro 1.0

Amazon Nova Pro 1.0 is a capable multimodal model from Amazon focused on providing a combination of accuracy, speed, and cost for a wide range of tasks. As of December 2024, it achieves state-of-the-art performance on key benchmarks including visual question answering (TextVQA) and video understanding (VATEX).

Amazon Nova Pro demonstrates strong capabilities in processing both visual and textual information and at analyzing financial documents.

NOTE: Video input is not supported at this time.

Text300K context$0.80 / $3.20