Amazon · Released Dec 2, 2025Nova 2 Lite
Multimodal reasoning model for visual analysis, planning, and tool use.
- Capability
- —No ECI score yet
- Input
- $0.33per 1M tokens
- Output
- $2.75per 1M tokens
- Context
- 1M66K max output
What it costs
- Input
- $0.33per million tokens
- Output
- $2.75per million tokens
- Cached input
- $0.083per million tokens
- Cache write
- $0.33per million tokens
- Blended (3:1)
- $0.935pricier than 54% of priced models
Typical monthly bills
| Monthly usage | Estimated cost |
|---|---|
| Side project2M input + 0.5M output tokens | $2.04 |
| Team assistant25M input + 5M output tokens | $22.00 |
| Production app250M input + 50M output tokens | $220.00 |
Official Amazon Bedrock API price, as listed on models.dev.
Independent benchmarks
Epoch AI has not published a Capabilities Index score for Nova 2 Lite yet.
The details
- Lab
- Amazon
- Released
- Dec 2, 2025
- Knowledge cutoff
- Oct 2025
- Context window
- 1,000,000 tokens
- Max output
- 65,536 tokens
- Inputs
- Text, Images, PDFs, Video
- Output
- Text
- Reasoning
- Adjustable effort low · medium · high
- Tool calling
- Yes
- Structured output
- No
- Weights
- Proprietary
- API model ID
amazon.nova-2-lite-v1:0on Amazon Bedrock- Availability
- 2 API providerslisted on models.dev
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About Nova 2 Lite
How much does Nova 2 Lite cost?
Nova 2 Lite costs $0.33 input / $2.75 output per million tokens (official Amazon Bedrock API price). Cached input is $0.083 per million tokens, and writing to the cache costs $0.33. At a 3:1 input-to-output mix that is $0.935 per million tokens, more expensive than 54% of the 360 priced models we track.
What is the context window of Nova 2 Lite?
Nova 2 Lite accepts up to 1,000,000 tokens per request and can write up to 65,536 tokens in one response.
How good is Nova 2 Lite?
Epoch AI has not published a Capabilities Index score for Nova 2 Lite yet.
Is Nova 2 Lite open source?
No. Nova 2 Lite is proprietary; you use it through Amazon Bedrock’s API or partner platforms.
What inputs does Nova 2 Lite support?
Nova 2 Lite accepts text, images, PDFs and video and replies in text. It is a reasoning model with low, medium and high effort settings, supports tool calling.
When was Nova 2 Lite released?
Amazon released Nova 2 Lite on Dec 2, 2025. Its training data runs to Oct 2025.
What are the best alternatives to Nova 2 Lite?
The closest current models from other labs on capability, price and release date are Mistral Large 3 (Mistral AI, $0.50 / $1.50), Seed 2.0 Code (ByteDance Seed, $0.475 / $2.37), Ling-1T (inclusionAI, $0.57 / $2.29) and GLM-4.6 (Z.ai (Zhipu), $0.60 / $2.20).