Amazon model product
Nova 2 Lite
Amazon Nova 2 Lite is a multimodal reasoning model for everyday workloads that processes text, images, and video to generate text output.
Updated Sep 8, 2026. Default version: Nova 2 Lite
LLMBoard Score41.8Nova 2 Lite
Coverage20%18 benchmark families
Context window1MTokens
Official input price$0.33Amazon Bedrock API
Nova 2 Lite Capability Profile
This profile uses the model's current scored version. Arena ratings and prices are shown separately.
Nova 2 Lite Benchmark Results
Benchmark scores for Nova 2 Lite.
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Benchmark | Score | Rank | Participants | Percentile | Evidence | Evaluated |
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| BenchmarkLongCodeBench | Score84.00% | Rank01 | Participants2 | Percentile100.00% | EvidenceC | Evaluated |
| BenchmarkQVHighlights | Score77.20% | Rank01 | Participants3 | Percentile100.00% | EvidenceC | Evaluated |
| BenchmarkMulti-Challenge | Score76.60% | Rank02 | Participants29 | Percentile96.43% | EvidenceC | Evaluated |
| BenchmarkRealKIE-FCC | Score62.10% | Rank02 | Participants3 | Percentile50.00% | EvidenceC | Evaluated |
| BenchmarkOCRBench_V2 | Score56.10% | Rank07 | Participants7 | Percentile0.00% | EvidenceC | Evaluated |
| BenchmarkTau2 Airline | Score64.80% | Rank08 | Participants24 | Percentile69.57% | EvidenceC | Evaluated |
| BenchmarkBFCL-V4 | Score60.30% | Rank10 | Participants18 | Percentile47.06% | EvidenceC | Evaluated |
| BenchmarkTau2 Retail | Score76.50% | Rank15 | Participants27 | Percentile46.15% | EvidenceC | Evaluated |
| BenchmarkScreenSpot | Score83.30% | Rank16 | Participants16 | Percentile0.00% | EvidenceC | Evaluated |
| BenchmarkTerminal-Bench | Score32.50% | Rank17 | Participants25 | Percentile33.33% | EvidenceC | Evaluated |
| BenchmarkLiveCodeBench | Score71.00% | Rank22 | Participants75 | Percentile71.62% | EvidenceC | Evaluated |
| BenchmarkTau2 Telecom | Score76.00% | Rank23 | Participants36 | Percentile37.14% | EvidenceC | Evaluated |
| BenchmarkIFBench | Score70.80% | Rank24 | Participants39 | Percentile39.47% | EvidenceC | Evaluated |
| BenchmarkMCP Atlas | Score24.60% | Rank34 | Participants34 | Percentile0.00% | EvidenceC | Evaluated |
| BenchmarkAIME 2025 | Score91.00% | Rank45 | Participants119 | Percentile62.71% | EvidenceC | Evaluated |
| BenchmarkMMMU-Pro | Score61.80% | Rank48 | Participants69 | Percentile30.88% | EvidenceC | Evaluated |
| BenchmarkMMLU-Pro | Score80.90% | Rank53 | Participants138 | Percentile62.04% | EvidenceC | Evaluated |
| BenchmarkSWE-Bench Verified | Score64.50% | Rank79 | Participants113 | Percentile30.36% | EvidenceC | Evaluated |
| BenchmarkGPQA | Score79.60% | Rank99 | Participants247 | Percentile60.16% | EvidenceC | Evaluated |
| BenchmarkLM Arena Text Factuality | Score1,380.10 rating | Rank111 | Participants121 | Percentile8.33% | EvidenceA | Evaluated |
| BenchmarkLM Arena Text | Score1,362.53 rating | Rank128 | Participants210 | Percentile39.23% | EvidenceA | Evaluated |
| BenchmarkLM Arena Text Style Control | Score1,336.05 rating | Rank157 | Participants210 | Percentile25.36% | EvidenceA | Evaluated |
Nova 2 Lite Arena Results
Preference and agent-evaluation results for the default version.
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Arena | Category | Rank | Rating / score | Votes | Observations | Result date |
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| Arenatext factuality | Categoryrussian | Rank88 | Rating / score1,372.19 | Votes798 | ObservationsN/A | Result date |
| Arenatext factuality | Categoryindustry life and physical and social science | Rank94 | Rating / score1,409.00 | Votes1,199 | ObservationsN/A | Result date |
| Arenatext factuality | Categorycreative writing | Rank99 | Rating / score1,314.67 | Votes978 | ObservationsN/A | Result date |
| Arenatext factuality | Categoryindustry business and management and financial operations | Rank100 | Rating / score1,387.35 | Votes1,428 | ObservationsN/A | Result date |
| Arenatext factuality | Categoryindustry entertainment and sports and media | Rank101 | Rating / score1,327.76 | Votes1,314 | ObservationsN/A | Result date |
| Arenatext factuality | Categorymulti turn | Rank101 | Rating / score1,360.28 | Votes1,235 | ObservationsN/A | Result date |
| Arenatext factuality | Categorycoding | Rank105 | Rating / score1,425.90 | Votes1,522 | ObservationsN/A | Result date |
| Arenatext factuality | Categoryindustry writing and literature and language | Rank105 | Rating / score1,350.27 | Votes1,700 | ObservationsN/A | Result date |
| Arenatext factuality | Categoryhard prompts english | Rank107 | Rating / score1,409.28 | Votes1,649 | ObservationsN/A | Result date |
| Arenatext factuality | Categoryinstruction following | Rank107 | Rating / score1,369.60 | Votes2,146 | ObservationsN/A | Result date |
| Arenatext factuality | Categoryenglish | Rank110 | Rating / score1,397.98 | Votes4,367 | ObservationsN/A | Result date |
| Arenatext factuality | Categoryindustry software and it services | Rank110 | Rating / score1,415.40 | Votes2,887 | ObservationsN/A | Result date |
| Arenatext factuality | Categorylonger query | Rank110 | Rating / score1,367.67 | Votes1,877 | ObservationsN/A | Result date |
| Arenatext factuality | Categoryexclude ties | Rank111 | Rating / score1,354.76 | Votes8,304 | ObservationsN/A | Result date |
| Arenatext factuality | Categoryhard prompts | Rank111 | Rating / score1,396.76 | Votes6,143 | ObservationsN/A | Result date |
| Arenatext factuality | Categorynon english | Rank111 | Rating / score1,358.23 | Votes6,755 | ObservationsN/A | Result date |
| Arenatext factuality | Categoryoverall | Rank111 | Rating / score1,380.10 | Votes11,659 | ObservationsN/A | Result date |
| Arenatext | Categoryfrench | Rank112 | Rating / score1,381.92 | Votes258 | ObservationsN/A | Result date |
| Arenatext | Categoryspanish | Rank112 | Rating / score1,371.01 | Votes230 | ObservationsN/A | Result date |
| Arenatext | Categoryindustry business and management and financial operations | Rank114 | Rating / score1,369.29 | Votes2,267 | ObservationsN/A | Result date |
| Arenatext | Categoryindustry medicine and healthcare | Rank114 | Rating / score1,387.50 | Votes707 | ObservationsN/A | Result date |
| Arenatext | Categorygerman | Rank117 | Rating / score1,346.57 | Votes280 | ObservationsN/A | Result date |
| Arenatext | Categoryindustry software and it services | Rank117 | Rating / score1,394.80 | Votes4,177 | ObservationsN/A | Result date |
| Arenatext | Categoryenglish | Rank118 | Rating / score1,385.56 | Votes5,041 | ObservationsN/A | Result date |
| Arenatext | Categoryhard prompts english | Rank118 | Rating / score1,386.24 | Votes2,682 | ObservationsN/A | Result date |
| Arenatext | Categoryindustry life and physical and social science | Rank118 | Rating / score1,382.67 | Votes2,061 | ObservationsN/A | Result date |
| Arenatext | Categoryjapanese | Rank118 | Rating / score1,276.64 | Votes106 | ObservationsN/A | Result date |
| Arenatext | Categorypolish | Rank122 | Rating / score1,325.41 | Votes414 | ObservationsN/A | Result date |
| Arenatext | Categorycoding | Rank124 | Rating / score1,386.91 | Votes2,498 | ObservationsN/A | Result date |
| Arenatext | Categoryexpert | Rank124 | Rating / score1,365.91 | Votes742 | ObservationsN/A | Result date |
Nova 2 Lite Pricing
Official vendor API pricing appears first, followed by individual provider offers.
- Official API
- $0.33 input, $2.75 output per 1M
- Official provider
- Amazon Bedrock
- Lowest third-party
- From $0.30 input, $2.5 output per 1M via OpenRouter
- Tracked offerings
- 5
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Provider | Provider model ID | Region | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Context | Updated |
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| ProviderNova | Provider model IDnova-2-lite-v1 | Regionglobal | Input / 1MN/A | Output / 1MN/A | Context1M | Updated |
| ProviderOpenRouter | Provider model IDamazon/nova-2-lite-v1 | Regionglobal | Input / 1M$0.30 | Output / 1M$2.5 | Context1M | Updated |
| ProviderVercel AI Gateway | Provider model IDamazon/nova-2-lite | Regionglobal | Input / 1M$0.30 | Output / 1M$2.5 | Context1M | Updated |
| ProviderAmazon Bedrock | Provider model IDamazon.nova-2-lite-v1:0 | Regionglobal | Input / 1M$0.33 | Output / 1M$2.75 | Context128K | Updated |
| ProviderCortecs | Provider model IDnova-2-lite | Regionglobal | Input / 1M$0.373 | Output / 1M$3.14 | Context1M | Updated |
Official prices use only the vendor's configured official Provider and positive standard USD PAYG rates. Third-party offers remain explicitly labeled.
Nova 2 Lite Runtime Performance
Provider-specific output speed and catalog latency for Nova 2 Lite. Runtime does not affect the capability score.
No runtime data
No provider-specific speed or latency record is linked to the default version yet.
Output Speed is generated output tokens received per second. Catalog latency is reported separately from observed provider TTFT.
Nova 2 Lite Specifications
Technical details for the model's default version.
- Version
- Nova 2 Lite
- Released
- Dec 2, 2025
- Knowledge cutoff
- Unknown
- Parameters
- N/A
- Context window
- 1M
- Max output
- 65.5K
- Inputs
- image, text, video
- Outputs
- text
- Open weights
- No
- License
- Proprietary
Nova 2 Lite Versions
Available versions of this model. The score column identifies the version used in the overall ranking.
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Version | Released | LLMBoard | Parameters | Context | Max output | Open weights | License |
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| VersionNova 2 Lite | Released | LLMBoard41.84 | ParametersN/A | Context1M | Max output65.5K | Open weightsNo | LicenseProprietary |
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What is Nova 2 Lite?
Key information about Nova 2 Lite and its available data.
Amazon Nova 2 Lite is a multimodal reasoning model with up to 1M tokens of context and controls for enabling extended thinking and adjusting reasoning depth between low, medium, and high. It is designed for low-latency, cost-effective processing of text, images, and video.
Data as of 2026-09-08.
FAQ
Common questions about Nova 2 Lite.
When was Nova 2 Lite released?
Nova 2 Lite's default version was released on Dec 2, 2025.
How much does Nova 2 Lite cost?
Nova 2 Lite's official API price is $0.33 per million input tokens and $2.75 per million output tokens via Amazon Bedrock. The lowest tracked third-party offer starts at $0.30 input and $2.5 output via OpenRouter.
Who created Nova 2 Lite?
Nova 2 Lite was created by Amazon.
What is the context window for Nova 2 Lite?
The default version has a 1M token context window.
Is Nova 2 Lite open weight?
No. The default version is not marked as having publicly available weights.
How many API providers offer Nova 2 Lite?
5 provider offerings are linked to the default version.