Amazon Nova 2 Lite — Amazon (AWS) | Modeldex

Amazon Nova 2 Lite

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Cost-efficient Nova 2 model with 1M context.

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VisionAgenticLong context

Not enough benchmark coverage yet for an Intelligence Index — needs at least 3 results across 2 categories.

Overview

Amazon Nova 2 Lite delivers the 1M context capability of Nova 2 at a cost-optimized price point, suitable for document analysis and high-throughput multimodal pipelines.

History

Amazon Nova 2 Lite was released on 2025-11-01.

Training & availability

Amazon (AWS) has not released the underlying model weights — access is via their hosted API only.

Capabilities

Context window: 1.0M tokens.
Max output: 8K tokens.
Input modalities: text, image.

Recommended for: vision, agentic, long-context.

Pricing

Input: $0.3300 per 1M tokens
Output: $2.7500 per 1M tokens

Use the cost calculator above to estimate monthly spend for your workload.

Quick start

Minimal example using the OpenRouter API. Copy, paste, replace the key.

from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    base_url="https://openrouter.ai/api/v1",
    api_key="sk-or-...",
)
resp = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="amazon/amazon-nova-2-lite",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Explain quantum computing in one sentence."}],
)
print(resp.choices[0].message.content)

Cost calculator

Estimate your monthly bill. Presets are typical workload sizes.

Input tokens / month5.0M

@ $0.33/1M

Output tokens / month2.0M

@ $2.75/1M

Input cost

$1.65

5.0M × $0.33/1M

Output cost

$5.5

2.0M × $2.75/1M

Total / month

$7.15

$85.8 / year

Integrations & tooling support

Tool calling: Supported
Structured outputs: Not supported

Price vs quality

Mid-tier pricing

Standard pricing band. Quality tier pending more benchmark coverage.

Quality percentile: —
Effective price: $2.15/1M
Pricing breakdown: $0.33/1M in
$2.75/1M out

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