Nova 2 Lite
VerifiedAmazon's multimodal model for long-context text, image, video and file analysis.
About Nova 2 Lite
Nova 2 Lite uses a multimodal design that ingests and reasons over text, images, video clips and arbitrary files in a single forward pass. Its one-million-token context window supports analysis of lengthy transcripts, multi-hour video streams or large document collections without truncation. As a proprietary Amazon offering, the model is accessed through managed APIs rather than local deployment.
Strengths include seamless cross-modal understanding at scale and consistent handling of mixed input types within the same request. The architecture prioritizes throughput for production pipelines where both breadth of context and modality diversity matter. Typical usage covers automated video summarization, long-form document intelligence and enterprise content workflows that combine visual and textual sources.
Capabilities
How Nova 2 Lite compares
Nova 2 Lite (striped bar) vs other multimodal on intelligence, speed and price.
Price
USD per 1M output tokens · Lower is better · Nova 2 Lite ranks #33 of 67
Nova 2 LiteSources: Artificial Analysis (intelligence, speed) · OpenRouter (price).
Best for
Large-scale document analysis
Nova 2 Lite processes extensive collections of files and documents in a single pass thanks to its long-context reasoning and large-scale document handling capabilities.
Video content review
The model performs video content analysis by combining multimodal understanding with image and text integration to extract insights from visual media.
Multimodal file interpretation
Users can upload mixed media files for simultaneous processing of images, text, and other elements within the supported context length.
Strengths & limitations
Strengths
- +Handles up to 1M tokens of context
- +Supports text, image, video and file inputs
- +Multimodal processing in one model
- +Lightweight variant for efficiency
Limitations
- –Lite model may trade depth for speed
- –No audio modality support indicated
- –Maximum context can increase latency
Cost calculator
Estimate what Nova 2 Lite would cost for your usage.
Based on Nova 2 Lite's $0.30/1M input · $2.50/1M output. Estimate only — actual cost varies by provider and caching.
Quick start
OpenRouter's API is OpenAI-compatible — most SDKs work by just swapping the base URL. Only the model slug changes between models.
import OpenAI from "openai";
const client = new OpenAI({
baseURL: "https://openrouter.ai/api/v1",
apiKey: process.env.OPENROUTER_API_KEY,
});
const completion = await client.chat.completions.create({
model: "amazon/nova-2-lite-v1",
messages: [{ role: "user", content: "Hello!" }],
});
console.log(completion.choices[0].message.content);Model slug: amazon/nova-2-lite-v1
Editor's verdict
Nova 2 Lite is Amazon's proprietary multimodal with a 1000K-token context window.
At $2.50 per 1M output tokens, it is mid-priced for its class.
It is available through Amazon's API and aggregators like OpenRouter.
Best suited to handles up to 1m tokens of context and supports text, image, video and file inputs.
Frequently asked questions
Nova 2 Lite supports a context window of 1000000 tokens.
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