Amazon Nova Premier is the most capable of Amazon’s multimodal models for complex reasoning tasks and for use as the best teacher for distilling custom models.
Specs
amazon/nova-2-lite-v1How to use Nova 2 Lite in your app
The quickest way is through an API gateway such as OpenRouter, which uses the same format as the OpenAI API. Create a key, then send a request with the model ID amazon/nova-2-lite-v1:
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Questions about Nova 2 Lite
What is 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...
How big is the context window of Nova 2 Lite?
Nova 2 Lite can read up to 1,000,000 tokens in one request, roughly 750,000 words.
How much does Nova 2 Lite cost?
Through OpenRouter, Nova 2 Lite costs about $0.30 / 1M tokens for input and $2.50 / 1M tokens for output. Prices change, so check before large jobs.
Is Nova 2 Lite open source?
Nova 2 Lite does not have downloadable weights. You use it through Amazon or an API provider.
What can Nova 2 Lite take as input?
Nova 2 Lite accepts text, image, video, file and produces text.
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Specs and prices come from OpenRouter and the provider, and are refreshed daily. Last checked 2 Dec 2025.