How much does Nova 2 Lite cost?

Nova 2 Lite costs $0.30/M input tokens and $2.50/M output tokens.

What is the context length of Nova 2 Lite?

Nova 2 Lite has a 1,000,000 token context window. It supports up to 65,535 completion tokens.

Does Nova 2 Lite support tool calling and structured outputs?

Yes. Nova 2 Lite accepts tools and tool_choice for function calling. It does not support response_format, so JSON output is not enforced.

What inputs and outputs does Nova 2 Lite support?

Nova 2 Lite accepts text, images, video, and files such as PDFs as input and returns text.

Which providers serve Nova 2 Lite?

Nova 2 Lite is served by 1 provider on OpenRouter: Amazon Bedrock.

What other text models does Amazon have?

Nova Premier 1.0, Nova Lite 1.0, Nova Micro 1.0 and 1 more are other text models from Amazon.

When was Nova 2 Lite released?

Nova 2 Lite was released on December 2, 2025.

Amazon: Nova 2 Lite

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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 documents, extracting information from videos, generating code, providing accurate grounded answers, and automating multi-step agentic workflows.

Modalities

In / out price

$0.30 / $2.50per 1M

Context

1.0M

Released

Dec 2, 2025

Providers

Different companies host the same model. OpenRouter routes your request to one of them based on the routing mode you pick: Balanced (price + speed), Nitro (fastest), or Floor (cheapest).

Latency / throughput


	$0.30	$2.50	0.67s	93 tok/s	99.63%
	$0.30	$2.50	1.17s	116 tok/s	99.92%

Input $0.30Output $2.50
93 tok/s99.63% uptime
Input $0.30Output $2.50
116 tok/s99.92% uptime

Pricing

The average price customers actually pay for this model, next to the prices providers post. Caching and discounts mean the price actually paid is often well below the listed one.

Weighted average

Input

$0.2999/M tokens

Output

$2.499/M tokens

Nova 2 Lite — Price history

Price history

No effective price data for this selection

		$0.300	$2.50	0.0%	35.7%
		$0.300	$2.50	0.0%	64.3%

Effective in $0.300Effective out $2.50
Token share
35.7%
Effective in $0.300Effective out $2.50
Token share
64.3%

Uptime

Uptime is the percentage of the past 3 days that at least one provider was responding to requests. Availability is the percentage of time that inference was successfully served. OpenRouter continuously monitors and uses the next-best provider when one returns an error.

Uptime (3d)

100.00%

Availability (3d)

99.92%

Availability over the last 3 days

Last 72 hours

Availability 99.92%

3 Days Ago2 Days AgoYesterdayNow

Availability over the last 24 hours

OpenRouter Availability

99.96%

When an error occurs in an upstream provider, we can recover by routing to another healthy provider, if your request filters allow it. You can access per-provider uptime data programmatically through the Endpoints API. Learn more about our load balancing and provider routing options.

Benchmarks

Scores on standardized evaluations and this model’s own outputs on shared benchmark prompts. Higher percentages are better — and each rank shows where this model lands among the models evaluated on that source.

Benchmark score summary for Amazon: Nova 2 Lite (Artificial Analysis)
Source	Benchmark	Score
Artificial Analysis	Nova 2.0 Lite (Non-reasoning) GPQA Diamond	60.3%
Artificial Analysis	Nova 2.0 Lite (Non-reasoning) HLE	2.9%
Artificial Analysis	Nova 2.0 Lite (Non-reasoning) IFBench	40.5%
Artificial Analysis	Nova 2.0 Lite (Non-reasoning) τ²-Bench Telecom	62.0%
Artificial Analysis	Nova 2.0 Lite (Non-reasoning) AA-LCR	18.7%
Artificial Analysis	Nova 2.0 Lite (Non-reasoning) CritPt	0.0%
Artificial Analysis	Nova 2.0 Lite (Non-reasoning) LiveCodeBench	34.6%
Artificial Analysis	Nova 2.0 Lite (Non-reasoning) Terminal-Bench Hard	6.8%
Artificial Analysis	Nova 2.0 Lite (Non-reasoning) MMLU-Pro	74.3%
Artificial Analysis	Nova 2.0 Lite (Non-reasoning) AIME 2025	33.7%
Artificial Analysis	Nova 2.0 Lite (Low) GPQA Diamond	69.8%
Artificial Analysis	Nova 2.0 Lite (Low) HLE	4.0%
Artificial Analysis	Nova 2.0 Lite (Low) IFBench	61.2%
Artificial Analysis	Nova 2.0 Lite (Low) τ²-Bench Telecom	71.9%
Artificial Analysis	Nova 2.0 Lite (Low) AA-LCR	54.3%
Artificial Analysis	Nova 2.0 Lite (Low) CritPt	0.0%
Artificial Analysis	Nova 2.0 Lite (Low) LiveCodeBench	46.9%
Artificial Analysis	Nova 2.0 Lite (Low) Terminal-Bench Hard	3.8%
Artificial Analysis	Nova 2.0 Lite (Low) MMLU-Pro	78.8%
Artificial Analysis	Nova 2.0 Lite (Low) AIME 2025	46.7%
Artificial Analysis	Nova 2.0 Lite (High) Coding Index	23.0
Artificial Analysis	Nova 2.0 Lite (High) GPQA Diamond	81.1%
Artificial Analysis	Nova 2.0 Lite (High) HLE	11.6%
Artificial Analysis	Nova 2.0 Lite (High) IFBench	70.7%
Artificial Analysis	Nova 2.0 Lite (High) τ²-Bench Telecom	72.8%
Artificial Analysis	Nova 2.0 Lite (High) AA-LCR	60.3%
Artificial Analysis	Nova 2.0 Lite (High) GDPval-AA	0.0%
Artificial Analysis	Nova 2.0 Lite (High) CritPt	0.3%
Artificial Analysis	Nova 2.0 Lite (High) LiveCodeBench	71.1%
Artificial Analysis	Nova 2.0 Lite (High) Terminal-Bench Hard	16.7%
Artificial Analysis	Nova 2.0 Lite (High) Terminal-Bench 2.1	16.1%
Artificial Analysis	Nova 2.0 Lite (High) MMLU-Pro	81.8%
Artificial Analysis	Nova 2.0 Lite (High) AIME 2025	94.3%
Artificial Analysis	Nova 2.0 Lite (Medium) GPQA Diamond	76.8%
Artificial Analysis	Nova 2.0 Lite (Medium) HLE	9.0%
Artificial Analysis	Nova 2.0 Lite (Medium) IFBench	68.5%
Artificial Analysis	Nova 2.0 Lite (Medium) τ²-Bench Telecom	75.7%
Artificial Analysis	Nova 2.0 Lite (Medium) AA-LCR	60.0%
Artificial Analysis	Nova 2.0 Lite (Medium) CritPt	0.0%
Artificial Analysis	Nova 2.0 Lite (Medium) LiveCodeBench	66.3%
Artificial Analysis	Nova 2.0 Lite (Medium) Terminal-Bench Hard	17.4%
Artificial Analysis	Nova 2.0 Lite (Medium) MMLU-Pro	81.3%
Artificial Analysis	Nova 2.0 Lite (Medium) AIME 2025	88.7%

Apps

Public apps that send the most traffic to this model. Good signal for what real production workloads look like — and a hint at which use cases this model is best suited for.

Diligent NS Enrichment

new

505Mtokens

Diligent NS Name Matching v2

new

233Mtokens

Nous Research API

Nous Research is an AI research team focused on advancing open-source AI.

68.1Mtokens

OpenClaw

OpenClaw is an open-source AI agent that connects to your messaging apps and takes real actions on your behalf, from running commands and browsing the web to managing files and sending emails.

52.7Mtokens

OpenMind

new

40Mtokens

Rest of OpenRouter

67.8M

Top 5 Apps

13M

Available through EU in-region routing

Amazon: Nova 2 Lite is available through EU in-region routing. Requests sent to eu.openrouter.ai are decrypted in the EU and routed only to shared provider endpoints in Europe (the EU/EEA, the UK, and Switzerland).

Providers in Europe: Amazon Bedrock
Base URL: https://eu.openrouter.ai/api/v1
Plan: Requires Business or Enterprise. Self-serve on Business: no contract, no monthly minimum. OpenRouter Business for EU in-region routing

Fails closed: if no shared provider endpoint in Europe is available, the request errors instead of leaving the region. Requests served by your own BYOK key go to your deployment’s region, which you control. In-region routing docs

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