Amazon Nova 2 Lite
The sensible default if you are already on Bedrock: 1M context, adjustable thinking, built-in web grounding and code interpreter, $0.30/$2.50. Fast but unremarkable on independent intelligence scores, and nobody outside AWS shops talks abou
Key facts
- Score
- 43 / 100, rank #23Evals22Price60Peoplen/aFit100
- Price
- $0.30 in · $2.50 out per 1M tokens (Amazon Bedrock pricing)
- Blended price
- $0.85 per 1M tokens (3 input : 1 output)
- Context window
- 1M
- Open weights
- No
- Released
- Dec 2, 2025
- Best for
- Bedrock-native chat and summarisation, Document automation inside AWS, Simple tool-using agents with IAM-scoped data
Amazon Nova 2 Lite costs $0.30 per million input tokens and $2.50 per million output tokens on Amazon's list price (Amazon Bedrock pricing, read Oct 11, 2026).
Independent evals
| Benchmark | Result | Who ran it | Read |
|---|---|---|---|
| Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index (high) | 13 | LLM Leaderboard - Artificial Analysis | Oct 10, 2026 |
- Artificial Analysis output speed (tokens/s): 188 (LLM Leaderboard - Artificial Analysis)
Caveats
- AA scores it 13 with limited data; a tier below Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite and GLM-5.3-Flash on intelligence.
- Not on Arena; almost no independent practitioner commentary.
- Pricing varies by region and tier on Bedrock; $0.30/$2.50 is the common US on-demand rate quoted by trackers.
Questions people ask
How much does Amazon Nova 2 Lite cost?
Amazon Nova 2 Lite costs $0.30 per million input tokens and $2.50 per million output tokens on Amazon's list price (Amazon Bedrock pricing, read Oct 11, 2026).
How good is Amazon Nova 2 Lite?
Amazon Nova 2 Lite ranks #23 of 26 on the Models at Work leaderboard with a score of 43 out of 100 (October 2026 edition). The sensible default if you are already on Bedrock: 1M context, adjustable thinking, built-in web grounding and code interpreter, $0.30/$2.50. Fast but unremarkable on independent intelligence scores, and nobody outside AWS shops talks abou
What is Amazon Nova 2 Lite best for?
Amazon Nova 2 Lite is best for bedrock-native chat and summarisation, document automation inside aws, simple tool-using agents with iam-scoped data.
What are Amazon Nova 2 Lite's benchmark scores?
Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index (high): 13 (LLM Leaderboard - Artificial Analysis).
What is Amazon Nova 2 Lite's context window?
Amazon Nova 2 Lite has a 1M token context window according to Amazon.
Is Amazon Nova 2 Lite open weights?
No. Amazon Nova 2 Lite is a proprietary model available through Amazon's API and partner clouds.
Compare Amazon Nova 2 Lite
Methodology: Score is 0 to 100 and computed, not typed: 55% independent evals (Artificial Analysis, Arena, Scale SEAL, Epoch, each scaled against its natural floor and the best score in this table, then averaged), 15% blended price on a fixed log scale ($0.05 per million is 100, $60 is 0), 15% practitioner sentiment from Signals and community threads, 15% operational fit (context window, open weights). A missing component drops out and the rest are reweighted. A model with no independent eval yet is provisional and ranks below every measured one. Within three points is a tie. Vendor-published figures are labelled and never counted.