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Nova 2 Lite

amazon·amazon/nova-2-lite·GA·Closed·nova series

Multimodal reasoning model for visual analysis, planning, and tool use

At a glance
Reference price$0.373 / $3.14 per 1M
Cache read · Cortecs
Lowest paid$0.30 / $2.50
OpenRouter Gateway · 1.2× spread
1 more $0 channels
Context1,000,000
⚠ Providers report 128,000–1,000,000; the table below is authoritative
Output limit1,000,000
Capabilities
ReasoningTool useStructured outputTemperatureAttachments
⚠ Providers report capability flags inconsistently
Modalities
TextImagePDFVideo
Knowledge cutoff2024-10
Released / updated2025-12-02 / 2025-12-04

Quality & performance

Artificial Analysis doesn't cover this model (267 of 2059 have data). Quality data comes from independent evals covering widely used models.

Available at 5 providers4 with public prices · 1 free

ProviderTierInputOutputCache readCache writeContextOutput limitStatus
Nova
nova-2-lite-v1
GatewayFree1,000,00064,000
OpenRouter
amazon/nova-2-lite-v1
Gateway$0.30$2.501,000,00065,535
Vercel AI GatewayCloud$0.30$2.50$0.0751,000,0001,000,000
Amazon Bedrock
amazon.nova-2-lite-v1:0
Cloud$0.33$2.75128,0004,096
CortecsGateway$0.373$3.141,000,0001,000,000

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.

Your usage cost

1Vercel AI Gateway$158.00
2OpenRouter$185.00
3Amazon Bedrock$203.50
4Cortecs$231.80

1 more channels offer $0 (Nova); free tiers usually have rate limits and no SLA, excluded from ranking.

The cheapest paid channel is the only channel.

Benchmark

No upstream benchmark data for this model. For quality, see the Artificial Analysis intelligence score above.

Reasoning control

Toggle (on / off)effort = loweffort = mediumeffort = high

2 / 5 providers expose no reasoning control (reasoning_options: []).

Related models

Price historyone sample accumulated per data sync

Input list $0.373Output list $3.14Min blended $0.85

Price history accumulates from each data sync; currently only 1 sample(s) (2026-08-13). Each future sync adds a point, and once accumulated a line is drawn here.