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Amazon Nova 2 Lite

Amazon's Nova 2 Lite reasoning model for everyday multimodal workloads (text, image, video, and file input), with first-party AWS Bedrock on-demand rates and a 1M-token context window.

ActiveReleased December 2, 2025Knowledge cutoff October 1, 2025
Tool callingCan invoke external tools and APIs (function calling) mid-response.Structured outputCan return JSON or schema-constrained responses instead of free text.ReasoningUses extended thinking / chain-of-thought for harder multi-step problems.Effort controlLets you dial thinking depth (low / medium / high) to trade cost for quality.Fine-tuningSupports training a custom variant on your own data (vendor fine-tune API or self-hosted open weights).

Source: Amazon Nova pricing, Amazon Bedrock pricing, Amazon Nova overview

Price per 1M tokens
$0.3 in / $2.5 out
Context window1,000,000
Max output65,536
Batch discount-50%
ModalitiesText, Image, Video → Text

Specs

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Document inputPDF, CSV, DOC/DOCX, XLS/XLSX, HTML, TXT, MD via Bedrock Converse

Pricing

Every billing leg from the live catalog, in USD per 1M tokens.

Billing legRateBatch
Input$0.3 / M$0.15 / M
Output$2.5 / M$1.25 / M

Cost calculator

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Hidden reasoning tokens bill as output. 1.0x = thinking off. Medium-effort reasoning typically lands near 3x; heavy reasoning runs 6x to 8x. Set it to match your workload.

Estimated monthly cost
$210
at current list prices
Fresh input$60.00
Output incl. thinking$150
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Provider

Where this model runs, and what it charges.

PlatformInput / MOutput / MBatchAccess
AWS Bedrock
$0.3$2.5✓Direct

Price history

Has this model gotten cheaper or more expensive?

No changePriced at $0.3 / $2.5 per 1M since August 5, 2026.

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Amazon Nova Premier
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$2.5 / $12.5 in / out per 1M
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$0.8 / $3.2 in / out per 1M
Amazon Nova Lite
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$0.06 / $0.24 in / out per 1M
Amazon Nova Micro
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$0.035 / $0.14 in / out per 1M

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