When was Nova 2 Lite released?

Nova 2 Lite was released on December 2, 2025 by Amazon. This is the official Nova 2 Lite release date tracked on LLM Stats.

Is Nova 2 Lite available via API?

Yes, Nova 2 Lite is available via API. See the official documentation for authentication and endpoint details. It is served by 1 provider tracked on LLM Stats.

Who created Nova 2 Lite?

Nova 2 Lite was created by Amazon.

What is the license for Nova 2 Lite?

Nova 2 Lite is released under the Proprietary license.

Is Nova 2 Lite multimodal?

Yes, Nova 2 Lite is multimodal and can accept both text and images as input.

Where can I use Nova 2 Lite?

Nova 2 Lite is available through 1 provider including Bedrock.

Where is the Nova 2 Lite paper or technical report?

Nova 2 Lite has a paper or technical report available at https://cdn.amazon.science/c5/3d/84514a224666b5be6de4b43ef4aa/nova-2-0-technical-report2.pdf. Use that source for architecture, training, release and evaluation details.

What models should I compare Nova 2 Lite against?

Common Nova 2 Lite comparisons include Nova 2 Lite vs Grok-3 Mini, Nova 2 Lite vs o1-pro, Nova 2 Lite vs LongCat-Flash-Thinking. Compare them side by side for benchmark scores, pricing, context window, latency and API availability.

Nova 2 Lite API Pricing, Context Window & Benchmarks

Name: Nova 2 Lite
Author: Amazon

Nova 2 Lite: API Pricing, Context Window & Benchmarks

Nova 2 Lite is a language model from Amazon, released in December 2025, with multimodal input, a 1M-token context window, and pricing from $0.300/M input and $2.50/M output.

Amazon Nova 2 Lite is a low-latency, cost-effective multimodal reasoning model for everyday workloads. It processes text, images, and video to generate text output, with hybrid reasoning controls that let developers toggle extended

Input

TextImageVideo

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Text

Nova 2 Lite benchmarks

Rankings

Quality Tracker

Nova 2 Lite Performance Across Datasets

Scores sourced from the model's scorecard, paper, or official blog posts

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Nova 2 Lite pricing

Providers

Nova 2 Lite starts at $0.300 per million input tokens and $2.50 per million output tokens via Bedrock.

Provider	Input $/M	Output $/M	Context in / out	TTFT p50 / p95 s	Output avg / p5 c/s	Success 7d	Modalities in / out
Bedrock	$0.300	$2.50	1.0M/65.5K	—/—	—/—	—	/

Cached input is the discounted price for prompt tokens served from a provider cache. TTFT is time to first token. Output is characters per second; p5 is the sustained floor exceeded by 95% of observed requests. Success is calculated from completed versus failed requests over the trailing seven days.

Nova 2 Lite context window

Input and output token limits for Nova 2 Lite, plus how it ranks on long-context understanding.

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1Mtokens

66Ktokens

≈ 1.5k pages of text

8K128K1M

Nova 2 Lite API

Available from the model provider

Nova 2 Lite is available from Bedrock. It is not currently routed through the LLM Stats gateway.

Read the official API documentation

Nova 2 Lite latency

Nova 2 Lite time to first token, sustained output throughput, and failed-request rate from live API traffic over the trailing 7 days.

Nova 2 Lite examples

Recent arena outputs from Nova 2 Lite, picked from the highest-ranked matchups.

Nova 2 Lite license

Nova 2 Lite is a proprietary model available under its provider's product and API terms.

License: Proprietary; Hosted access

Proprietary license - usage restrictions apply

Nova 2 Lite resources

Official sources for Nova 2 Lite: api documentation, paper or system card, source repository.

Nova 2 Lite vs other models

The most-compared alternatives to Nova 2 Lite are Grok-3 Mini, o1-pro, LongCat-Flash-Thinking. Open any pair side-by-side for benchmarks, pricing, context, and latency.