Nova 2 Lite

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...

by Amazon

Overview

Quick stats across all benchmark runs.

Score

15%

44 benchmarks

Avg Latency

13.8s

150 requests

Pricing

$0.30 in / $2.50 out

per 1M tokens

Context

1000K

tokens

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Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite	-62%

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Same Cost, Better

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DeepSeek V3.2	+17%
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Gemini 2.0 Flash	+14%

Benchmark Performance

How this model performs across different benchmarks

Benchmark	Score	Rank
Categorization Bench	30%	45 / 54
Money Boy Cultural Literacy Test	28%	91 / 107
Explain Like I'm 5	12%	43 / 47
Niederstetten Benchmark	8%	31 / 35

Price vs Performance

Compare cost efficiency across all models

Current model (baseline)

Other models (relative score)

Y-axis shows score difference from shared benchmarks. X-axis uses log scale.

Score Over Time

Performance trends across all benchmark runs

Benchmark Activity

Number of benchmark runs over time

Quickstart

View on OpenRouter

Get started with this model using OpenRouter

import { OpenRouter } from "@openrouter/sdk";

const openrouter = new OpenRouter({
  apiKey: "<OPENROUTER_API_KEY>"
});

const completion = await openrouter.chat.completions.create({
  model: "amazon/nova-2-lite-v1",
  messages: [
    {
      role: "user",
      content: "Hello!"
    }
  ]
});

console.log(completion.choices[0].message.content);

Get your API key at openrouter.ai/keys

Other Models from Amazon

Compare performance with other models from the same creator

Model	Latency	Cost/1M	Score
Nova Premier 1.0	35.2s	$7.50	43%
Nova Micro 1.0	3.7s	$0.09	31%
Nova Pro 1.0	13.0s	$2.00	15%
Nova Lite 1.0	6.8s	$0.15	2%