Amazon Nova 2 Lite
Nova 2 Lite
Amazon's everyday model: a million tokens of context inside the AWS account you already have.
Updated
The read
Nova 2 Lite is the only second-generation Nova model generally available on Bedrock, and it has replaced the original Nova Lite as Amazon's everyday option. It reads text, images and video, takes a million tokens of context and can reason before answering. It sits with the small models on the independent index, so it is not where you go for hard problems. Its real advantage is that it already lives inside your AWS account, with the billing, permissions and data controls you have set up.
Where it shines
- Already inside AWS, with no new vendor to approve
- Million-token context across text, images and video
- Optional reasoning for the requests that need it
Worth knowing first
- Small-model quality on the independent indexes
- Amazon's larger Nova 2 models are still limited previews
Index score
74.5
Provisional. This score is read from the product's public capability, not from the one-prompt rebuild the fully reviewed entries went through, so treat it as a placing rather than a verdict.
- Rank
- 64 of 73
- Builds
- LLMs
- Category
- Small and fast
- Output
- Text, images and video in, text out
- Pricing
- Paid only
- Best for
- High-volume work inside an existing AWS estate
Scores are our own editorial judgement, weighted craft 55, speed 10, control 15 and value 20.
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