Multimodal reasoning model for visual analysis, planning, and tool use
Nova 2 Lite by amazon is offered by 5 providers on this page. Public prices are shown for 4 of them. Its official list price is $0.33 per 1M input tokens and $2.75 per 1M output tokens. The lowest paid channel is OpenRouter at $0.30 / $2.50 per 1M, about 1.2× below the list price. That channel is a third-party gateway, so confirm its availability and rate limits before depending on it. It also has 1 free ($0) channel; free tiers usually carry rate limits, and subscription-covered access bills $0 per token only after the subscription fee.
The context window is 1,000,000 tokens, with an output limit of 65,535 tokens. It supports reasoning and tool use. Accepted input modalities are Text, Image, Video, and PDF. Providers report the capability flags inconsistently, so verify a specific feature against the host you plan to use. Its training knowledge cuts off at 2025-10.
| Provider | Tier | Input | Output | Cache read | Cache write | Context | Output limit | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nova nova-2-lite-v1 | Gateway | Free | — | — | 1,000,000 | 64,000 | ||
| OpenRouter amazon/nova-2-lite-v1 | Gateway | $0.30 | $2.50 | — | — | 1,000,000 | 65,535 | |
| Vercel AI Gateway | Cloud | $0.30 | $2.50 | $0.075 | — | 1,000,000 | 65,535 | |
| Amazon BedrockOfficial amazon.nova-2-lite-v1:0 | Cloud | $0.33 | $2.75 | $0.083 | $0.33 | 1,000,000 | 65,535 | |
| Cortecs | Gateway | $0.37 | $3.14 | — | — | 1,000,000 | 65,535 |
Sorted by blended price (input×0.75 + output×0.25) asc. The official channel always shows regardless of rank. Whether a gateway's low price is actually usable can't be verified.
1 / 5 providers expose no reasoning control (reasoning_options: []).
1 more channels offer $0 (Nova); free tiers usually have rate limits and no SLA, excluded from ranking.