--- title: "Amazon: Nova 2 Lite — price, capability and what beats it · Undominated.ai" canonical: https://undominated.ai/models/amazon__nova-2-lite-v1/ description: "Amazon: Nova 2 Lite: $0.300/M in, $2.50/M out. Independent capability scores, and alternatives compared under recorded workload and capability requirements." --- # 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, and alternatives compared under recorded workload and capability requirements. [Check base rates for this workload](/check/amazon__nova-2-lite-v1/) [Cheaper alternatives](/alternatives/amazon__nova-2-lite-v1/) [Family](/families/nova/) [Compare models](https://undominated.ai/compare/?models=amazon%2Fnova-2-lite-v1) Comparison context Choose up to three standard models in Compare. Requirements and prompt length apply in Compare. This page keeps its stated price basis and workload controls. MODEL PROOF # Nova 2 Lite Amazon · 02 Dec 2025 · proprietary Balanced Summarise Chat Code gen Agentic BETTER VALUE OPTION ## A stored alternative has an equal-or-higher measured score and an equal-or-lower price. **$0.850** / 1M tokens Balanced · 3 tokens in per 1 out [Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite](/models/google__gemini-3.5-flash-lite/) · Δ score 72.9 points · same measured price · $0.850 / 1M tokens [MiMo-V2.6-Pro](/models/xiaomi__mimo-v2.6-pro/) is a further stored option with these losses: no file input Evidence as of 06 Oct 2026 [openrouter/models](https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/models) [Vendor cross-check](https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/models) [LMArena · cc-by-4.0](https://huggingface.co/datasets/lmarena-ai/leaderboard-dataset) Independent LMArena score 1,361.8 ± 6.01 · 12,392 votes Context window 1M Maximum output 65.54K Input modalities text, image, video, file Output modalities text Published input price $0.300 / 1M tokens Published output price $2.50 / 1M tokens Pricing kind fixed Inspect [complete billing conditions](#billing-details) and endpoint terms below. Price from Amazon Bedrock: the cheapest offer that is serving, at standard delivery and at the maker’s precision or better, at its standard rate. Every price dimension · USD per million tokens | Input | $0.300 /M | | --- | --- | | Output | $2.50 /M | | Cached input | Unknown /M | | Cache write | Unknown /M | | Cache write 1h | Unknown /M | | Reasoning | Unknown /M | ### Who sells it The same weights, different shops. Cheapest is not like-for-like when serving precision differs. 2 provider offers · rates, limits and conditions Rates are USD per million tokens. Endpoint terms can differ even when the quoted price and precision match. A listed parameter is a provider declaration, not a task-success test. | Seller | Input | Output | Precision | Uptime (1d) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Seller Amazon Bedrock amazon-bedrock/eu-west-1 Endpoint terms Cached input /M Unknown Context limit 1,000,000 tokens Output limit 65,535 tokens Tools Listed by endpoint Reasoning Listed by endpoint Promotional discount None reported Uptime · last 30 minutes 100.00% | Input $0.300 | Output $2.50 | Precision undeclared | Uptime (1d) 99.85% | | Seller Amazon Bedrock amazon-bedrock Endpoint terms Cached input /M Unknown Context limit 1,000,000 tokens Output limit 65,535 tokens Tools Listed by endpoint Reasoning Listed by endpoint Promotional discount None reported Uptime · last 30 minutes 100.00% | Input $0.300 | Output $2.50 | Precision undeclared | Uptime (1d) 99.93% | ### Independent scores | LMArena Elo | 1361.8 default | | --- | --- | LMArena Elo under CC BY 4.0. Absence of another board is not a score of zero. ### Capability | Context window | 1M | | --- | --- | | Max output | 65K | | Input modes | text, image, video, file | | Tool use | yes | | Reasoning | optional | | Open weights | no | ### Provenance | Price source | [openrouter.ai](https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/models) | | --- | --- | | Fetched | 2026-10-06 | | Quality data | verified | | Cross-checked | [vendor page](https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/models) | ## Our take editorial — not a measurement For a Bedrock-based application, evaluate Nova using the actual region, endpoint and account terms you intend to use. An aggregator listing is not a quote for every Bedrock region, and difficulty retrieving a web table does not prove prices are unpublished. The accepted model supports several input modalities. Use the current proof for independent benchmark coverage. ### Strengths - Text, image, video and file input are listed - Tools and reasoning support are recorded ### Weaknesses - Confirm region-specific offer conditions before estimating spend - Do not infer a cache discount from an unlisted cache-read rate ### Reach for it when - Evaluations in an existing Bedrock deployment - Multimodal workflows with explicitly selected endpoint terms ### Avoid it if - Your estimate mixes offers from different regions or sellers - The choice is based only on ecosystem familiarity without task testing Sources: [openrouter.ai](https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/models) · [aws.amazon.com](https://aws.amazon.com/bedrock/pricing/) 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... ## Questions this page answers What does Nova 2 Lite cost? $0.300/M in, $2.50/M out in this catalogue, as of the fetch date on this page. That is the API row, not a subscription. Does Nova 2 Lite have an independent quality score? Nova 2 Lite has an LMArena score in this catalogue. What beats Nova 2 Lite? Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite has an equal-or-higher measured score and an equal-or-lower price. Does this page use Artificial Analysis scores for Nova 2 Lite? No. Artificial Analysis figures are not published here. Quality on this page is LMArena Elo where a score exists; otherwise the row is unrated. MODEL MONUMENT ## Save or share this proof Download proof card · 1200 × 630 Preview and more sharing options Amazon: Nova 2 Lite. Balanced workload. Better value option available. Evidence as of 06 Oct 2026. Copy model link Download square card · 1080 × 1080 Copy landscape image Share landscape card ## Related - Both better and cheaper [Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite](/models/google__gemini-3.5-flash-lite/) - Higher score and cheaper, with a named trade [MiMo-V2.6-Pro](/models/xiaomi__mimo-v2.6-pro/) - Nearby on the capability axis [gpt-oss-120b](/models/openai__gpt-oss-120b/) - Same vendor [Nova Lite 1.0](/models/amazon__nova-lite-v1/) - Amazon models [Amazon](/providers/amazon/) - Where this model appears [significance](/significance/) - Nearby on the capability axis [MiniMax M2.5](/models/minimax__minimax-m2.5/) - Same vendor [Nova Micro 1.0](/models/amazon__nova-micro-v1/) - Where this model appears [cheapest-at](/cheapest-at/) - Nearby on the capability axis [Gemma 3 27B](/models/google__gemma-3-27b-it/) - Same vendor [Nova Premier 1.0](/models/amazon__nova-premier-v1/) ## Badge The verdict as one SVG, for a README or a docs page. 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