Identity
- Status
- active
- Developer ID
amazon.nova-2-lite-v1:0- Released
- Dec 2, 2025
- Version
- Nova 2 Lite
- License
- Unknown
AmazonNova 2 Lite
Nova 2 Lite is Amazon's cost-efficient multimodal model for automation, document processing, and customer support.
- Context
- 1,000,000 tokens
- Inputs
- Text, Image, Video, Document
- Outputs
- Text
- Released
- Dec 2, 2025
Providers & Pricing
Estimate workload cost →| Provider | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Cache read / 1M | Cache write / 1M | Observed | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Amazon BedrockAvailable | $0.30 | $2.50 | — | — | Aug 29, 2026 | Provider-reported |
Benchmarks
All benchmark results →| Nova 2 LiteAmazon | Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboardv4-ede5081a24bc | 27.10 | — | — | Amazon-Nova-2-Lite-v1:0 (FC)unknown | Recomputedwinner eligible | Third-party benchmark |
| Nova 2 LiteAmazon | LMArena Text Arenatext-2026-09-01-011508720696 | 1,362.52 | — | 12,117 | nova-2-lite; 95% CI [1356.44886287, 1368.59662424]; votes 12117; rank 178unknown | Original sourcewinner eligible | Third-party benchmark |
At a Glance
Model Facts
Capacity
- Context
- 1,000,000 tokens
- Maximum output
- 65,536 tokens
- Total parameters
- Unknown
- Active parameters
- Unknown
- Knowledge cutoff
- Oct 1, 2025
Interface and Access
- Inputs
- Text, Image, Video, Document
- Outputs
- Text
- API available
- Yes
- Open weights
- No
- Self-hostable
- No
- Reasoning
- No
- Vision
- Yes
- Tool calling
- Yes
- Capabilities
- chat, generation, prompt-caching, tools, vision
This page represents one immutable developer model ID. Serving endpoints, pricing, regions, quantizations, and service tiers attach separately and never create duplicate model records.
Version Lineage
PredecessorUnknown
SuccessorsUnknown
Aliasesamazon.nova-2-lite-v1:0, global.amazon.nova-2-lite-v1:0, nova-2-lite
Explicit Unknowns
- Architecture
- Tokenizer
Primary Evidence
Sources and Observation Date
Comparable Peers
Related Model Comparisons
| A | Pair | B | Context |
|---|---|---|---|
Nova 2 LiteAmazon | vs |  GLM-5.3-FlashZ.ai | cross-developer peersimage, text, video |
Nova 2 LiteAmazon | vs |  Mistral Large 3Mistral AI | cross-developer peersimage, text |
Nova 2 LiteAmazon | vs | Pixtral LargeMistral AI | cross-developer peersimage, text |
Nova 2 LiteAmazon | vs |  Command A VisionCohere | cross-developer peersimage, text |
Nova 2 LiteAmazon | vs |  Gemini 2.5 Flash-LiteGoogle DeepMind | cross-developer peerstext |
Nova 2 LiteAmazon | vs | Gemini 3.1 Flash-LiteGoogle DeepMind | cross-developer peerstext |
Nova 2 LiteAmazon | vs | Gemini 3.5 Flash-LiteGoogle DeepMind | cross-developer peerstext |
Nova 2 LiteAmazon | vs | Gemini 2.5 ProGoogle DeepMind | cross-developer peerstext |
Nova 2 LiteAmazon | vs | Gemini 3.6 FlashGoogle DeepMind | cross-developer peerstext |
Nova 2 LiteAmazon | vs | Gemini 3.7 FlashGoogle DeepMind | cross-developer peerstext |
Nova 2 LiteAmazon | vs | Antigravity AgentGoogle DeepMind | cross-developer peerstext |
Nova 2 LiteAmazon | vs |  Hunyuan3D-2.1Tencent | cross-developer peersvideo |
Questions
Nova 2 Lite FAQs
What is Nova 2 Lite?+
Nova 2 Lite is Amazon's cost-efficient multimodal model for automation, document processing, and customer support. It is developed by Amazon and its current sourced lifecycle status is active.
What inputs and outputs does Nova 2 Lite support?+
Nova 2 Lite's current record lists Text, Image, Video, and Document as input and Text as output.
How much context does Nova 2 Lite support?+
The current record lists a 1,000,000-token context window and a maximum output of 65,536 tokens.
Is Nova 2 Lite available through an API?+
Nova 2 Lite is marked as API-available. The directly sourced provider records currently include Amazon Bedrock.
How much does Nova 2 Lite cost through an API?+
The lowest directly sourced prices currently attached to Nova 2 Lite are $0.30 per million input tokens through Amazon Bedrock and $2.50 per million output tokens through Amazon Bedrock. Prices are provider-specific and should be checked against each cited observation date.
What capabilities and tasks does Nova 2 Lite support?+
Nova 2 Lite's recorded capabilities are chat, generation, prompt-caching, tools, and vision. Its supported tasks are automation, document-question-answering, image, text, and video.
Can Nova 2 Lite be self-hosted?+
Nova 2 Lite is not marked as an open-weight model. Self-hosting is marked as unsupported, with no license recorded.
Does Nova 2 Lite have related versions or aliases?+
No predecessor is recorded. No successor is recorded. Recorded aliases are amazon.nova-2-lite-v1:0, global.amazon.nova-2-lite-v1:0, and nova-2-lite.
Which models can Nova 2 Lite be compared with?+
The current compatible peer set includes GLM-5.3-Flash, Mistral Large 3, Pixtral Large, Command A Vision, and Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite. Compatibility requires shared sourced modalities and tasks; it does not imply that one model is better. Browse model comparisons →
How current is the Model Markets record for Nova 2 Lite?+
Nova 2 Lite was last verified Aug 29, 2026 from Amazon's primary source, “Nova 2 Lite | Amazon Bedrock.” The evidence is classified as official fact.