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# Amazon: Nova 2 Lite — price, capability and what beats it · Undominated.ai

> Amazon: Nova 2 Lite: $0.300/M in, $2.50/M out. Independent capability scores, context-tier pricing, and the models that are both better and cheaper.

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# Nova 2 Lite

Amazon · released 2025-12-02 · proprietary

 $0.850 per million tokens, balanced Balanced Summarise Chat Code gen Agentic

## 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.ai · aws.amazon.com

### Every price dimension

| Input | $0.300 /M |
| --- | --- |
| Output | $2.50 /M |

### Independent scores

| Coding | 23 |
| --- | --- |
| LMArena Elo | 1362.2 default |

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...