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Amazon Nova 2 Lite

Amazon Nova 2 Lite is a reasoning model developed by Amazon. It features a very long context window of 1000K and provides advanced reasoning capabilities.

Parameters

Undisclosed

Context Window

1000K

License

Proprietary

Release Date

2025-12-02

API Pricing

API pricing for this model is not yet available

Strengths

  • Extremely long context with 1000K
  • Provision of advanced reasoning capabilities
  • Latest design by Amazon

Weaknesses

  • Non-open-source license
  • Closed format with limited usage conditions
  • Opacity of model internals

Use Cases

  • Analysis of ultra-long documents
  • Complex logical reasoning tasks
  • Processing of large-scale contexts

Deep Analysis

Context Window

1M tokens

Pricing

$0.30/$2.50 per 1M tokens

Modalities

Text, Image, Video, PDF input

Reasoning

Adjustable effort levels

Release Date

December 2, 2025

Strengths

  • 1M token context
  • Competitive pricing ($0.30/$2.50)
  • Built-in web grounding and code interpreter
  • Adjustable thinking effort

Weaknesses

  • Not frontier reasoning
  • Limited to text output
  • Newer model, less adoption
  • AWS ecosystem dependency

Competitor Comparison

ModelPrice
Claude Haiku 4.5$0.80/$4.00
Gemini Flash 2.5$0.15/$0.60
DeepSeek V3.277.8%$0.28/$1.10

Amazon Nova 2 Lite is AWS's cost-effective reasoning model with 1M context. $0.30/$2.50, beats Haiku 4.5 on 13/15 benchmarks.

Sources

Analysis generated: 2026-05-24