Amazon: Nova 2 Lite

amazon/nova-2-lite-v1

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...

Modalities

In / out price

$0.3 / $2.5 per 1M

Context

Released

Dec 2, 2025

Why use Nova 2 Lite

Understands images
Reads PDFs and other files
Step-by-step reasoning mode
Tool and function calling (agent-ready)
Very long context: whole books or codebases in one prompt

Pricing

Input	$0.3 / 1M tokens
Output	$2.5 / 1M tokens

List prices via OpenRouter, checked daily. Real cost depends on the provider and on reasoning tokens.

How it ranks

Coding index23

Source: Artificial Analysis (artificialanalysis.ai) via OpenRouter (openrouter.ai/rankings).

Cost calculator

Pick a task, set how often you run it, and compare what it costs on each model.

TaskInput tokens≈ 602 wordsOutput tokens≈ 1,504 wordsRuns per month

Input served from cache: 0%Repeated prompts (same instructions or document) are billed at the cheaper cache-read price where the model supports it.

Model	Per run	Per month	Per 1,000 runs
Amazon: Nova 2 Lite	$0.0052	$5.24	$5.24

Estimates from list prices via OpenRouter; real bills vary by provider and reasoning tokens.

Will it fit? Context window simulator

Each square is about one page (500 words). Colored squares are your content; grey squares are free space in the model's context window.

Your content

Novel (90,000 words)

Total: about 120,000 tokens (≈ 90,226 words). Token counts are estimates.

Models

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