LLM Comparison

Nova Lite 1.0 vs Nova 2 Lite

Side-by-side specs, pricing & capabilities · Updated April 2026

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	N Nova Lite 1.0	N Nova 2 Lite
Organization	Amazon	Amazon
OpenTools Score
Family	Nova	Nova
Status	Current	Current
Release Date	Dec 2024	Dec 2025
Context Window	300K tokens	1.0M tokens
Input Price	$0.06/M tokens	$0.30/M tokens
Output Price	$0.24/M tokens	$2.50/M tokens
Capabilities	textvisioncode	textvisionvideocode
Max Output	5K tokens	66K tokens
API Identifier	`amazon/nova-lite-v1`	`amazon/nova-2-lite-v1`
Benchmarks
MMLU	72	—
	View Nova Lite 1.0	View Nova 2 Lite

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Model	Input	Output	Total / mo	vs Best
Nova Lite 1.0Cheapest	$0.06	$0.12	$0.18	—
Nova 2 Lite	$0.30	$1.25	$1.55	+761%

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Nova Lite 1.0

Nova Lite 1.0 is a multimodal llm from Amazon. Supports up to 300,000 token context window. Achieves 72.0% on MMLU. Available from $0.06/M input tokens.

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Nova 2 Lite

Nova 2 Lite is a multimodal llm from Amazon. Supports up to 1,000,000 token context window. Available from $0.30/M input tokens.