Nova 2 Lite

Pricing — 1 offering(s)

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Capability profile

Operator guidance

The default Nova 2 choice for cost- and latency-sensitive production workloads on AWS, especially multimodal or very-long-context ones. Step up to Nova 2 Pro (Preview on Bedrock at time of writing) for harder reasoning. Outside AWS, Gemini 2.5 Flash and GPT-5.x mini are the closest cheap-multimodal-long-context alternatives and score somewhat higher on visual reasoning; Nova 2 Lite's edge is price and native Bedrock/AWS integration.

Use cases

• High-volume customer-service chatbots, document processing, and business-process automation where cost and latency matter more than frontier quality
• Multimodal workloads (text + image + video input) at low cost within an AWS/Bedrock stack
• Long-document / large-corpus tasks needing up to 1M tokens of context
• Agentic workflows where the adjustable thinking budget can be tuned per task

Limitations

• Bedrock / AWS-hosted only — no independent first-party API outside AWS
• Visual-reasoning quality (MMMU-Pro ~61.8) trails GPT-5 mini and Gemini Flash in Amazon's own comparison
• Pricing is not on static HTML on AWS's pricing page (client-rendered) — see registry entry for the Price List API cross-check
• Capability ratings here are qualitative, drawn from Amazon's own technical report and framing; no independent third-party leaderboard entry consulted for this doc

Citations

• Introducing Amazon Nova 2 Lite (AWS News blog)
• Amazon Nova 2: Multimodal reasoning and generation models (technical report)
• Amazon Bedrock pricing