Nova 2 Lite
Amazon released 2025-12-02 proprietary
No independent quality score.
No benchmark we track has measured this model. That is not the same as measuring it and finding it wanting — we simply cannot rank it, so we do not.
Our take
editorial — not a measurement$0.30/$2.50 with a 1M context window and text, image, video and file input — reasonable on paper, and the natural choice if your stack is already Bedrock-native and IAM-governed. The practical problem for price comparison is that AWS renders the Bedrock pricing tables client-side, so Nova rates are not machine-readable from the pricing page; the figures here come from OpenRouter and Bedrock regional rates may differ. Also note Bedrock charges a 10% premium for regional over global endpoints on some model families, which no aggregator surfaces.
Strengths
- 1M context with video and image input at $0.30/$2.50
- Native Bedrock integration, IAM and VPC governance
- Reasoning-capable
Weaknesses
- AWS does not expose Nova pricing in machine-readable form
- Regional endpoints can carry a ~10% premium over global
- No cache pricing listed at the OpenRouter endpoint
- No independent benchmark score captured
Reach for it when
- Bedrock-native AWS deployments
- Teams needing AWS-side compliance and billing
Avoid it if
- You need verifiable published per-token rates
- You are optimising purely on price
Sources: openrouter.aiaws.amazon.com
Every price dimension
| Input | $0.300/M |
|---|---|
| Output | $2.50/M |
Independent scores
| Coding | 23 |
|---|---|
| LMArena Elo | 1362.2default |
Sources are listed separately rather than averaged. Across the 62 models both have scored they correlate at r = 0.806 — close agreement overall, but four models rank very differently between them, and a blended score would hide exactly those.
Capability
| Context window | 1M |
|---|---|
| Max output | 66K |
| Input modes | text, image, video, file |
| Tool use | yes |
| Reasoning | optional |
| Open weights | no |
Provenance
| Price source | openrouter.ai |
|---|---|
| Fetched | 2026-08-24 |
| Quality data | unrated |
| Cross-checked | vendor page |
Nova 2 Lite is a fast, cost-effective reasoning model for everyday workloads that can process text, images, and videos to generate text. Nova 2 Lite demonstrates standout capabilities in processing...