Nova 2 Lite
Provider：Amazon
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...
Key specs
- Context：1M
- Max output：65.5K
- Tokenizer：Nova
- Released：2025-12-02
Token pricing
- Input price：$0.300 / 1M tokens
- Output price：$2.50 / 1M tokens
- Blended price：$0.850 / 1M tokens
Modalities
Text, Image, Video, File
Use Cases
- Deep Reasoning & Analysis：Process long legal docs, academic papers, financial reports; multi-hop reasoning and evidence-chain tracing across huge contexts.（≈ $0.020/call）
- Vision Understanding & Generation：Recognize data trends in charts, OCR scanned docs, analyze photos and produce structured reports.（≈ $0.015/call）
- Content Moderation：Auto-detect violations, hate speech, NSFW content; custom rule sets and score thresholds.
When to pick this model
Signals derived from public pricing and spec fields — not a benchmark. Validate with official docs and your own eval.
- Low input price: cost-effective for tasks that consume large context (RAG, long-doc analysis).
- Long context (>=1M tokens): well-suited for long-doc QA, code-base analysis, multi-turn agents.
- Long max output (>=30K tokens): strong fit for deep report / essay / document-drafting workflows.
- Multimodal (text+image): fit for image captioning, OCR, chart QA, vision-grounded reasoning.
- Video input support: fit for video understanding, frame QA, content moderation.
- File / PDF input support: fit for document parsing, contract review, RAG over private data.
FAQ
- What is the token pricing of Nova 2 Lite? Input price $0.300 / 1M tokens, output price $2.50 / 1M tokens, blended about $0.850 / 1M tokens. Refer to Amazon’s official page for the exact rate.
- What context window does Nova 2 Lite support? Context window is 1M, max output about 65.5K, suitable for long documents, multi-turn chat and complex reasoning.
- What scenarios is Nova 2 Lite best for? Based on its capability and pricing, Nova 2 Lite fits best: Deep Reasoning & Analysis, Vision Understanding & Generation, Content Moderation. See the Use Cases section for details and cost estimates.
- What input/output modalities does Nova 2 Lite support? Supports Text, Image, Video, File modality.
- Is Nova 2 Lite a free model? Nova 2 Lite is billed per token, not a free model.
- Which provider offers Nova 2 Lite? Nova 2 Lite is offered by Amazon.
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