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Amazon Nova 2 Lite

Amazon

Released: December 2025
Data date: September 8, 2026
Predecessor: Amazon Nova Lite

Speed: 161.8 tokens/s
Output throughput
Price: $0.3 · $2.5
Input · Output / 1M tokens
Input: Text, Image, Video
Output: Text

Amazon Nova 2 Lite extends the Lite line with a 1M-token context and up to 64K output tokens. The multimodal model accepts text, images, and video. AWS describes the reasoning variant as a development of the family, not as a documented retirement of Amazon Nova Lite.

The current Bedrock identifier is amazon.nova-2-lite-v1:0, and the service is active. The model card shows text as the output format even though inputs are multimodal.

Specifications and access

Specification	Value and source
Weights	ProprietarySource
Access	APISource
Context window	1,000,000 tokensSource
Knowledge cutoff	October 2025Source
Notes	Multimodal reasoning model with a 1M context window; parameter count not disclosed.Source
Release	2025-12 (Month-only precision; source did not expose an exact day.)Source
Knowledge cutoff	2025-10Source
Maximum output	64,000 tokensSource
Input	Image, Text, Video (retrieved 2026-10-02)Source
Output	Text (retrieved 2026-10-02)Source
API model ID	amazon.nova-2-lite-v1:0Source

Measurements without matching peer values

These measurements have no matching peer values under the same test conditions. Their original values and sources remain available here.

MMLU-Pro (Show measurement, test conditions, and source)

Source value: 80.9
Score: 80.9
Metric: percent
Unit: %
Category: text
Direction: Higher is better
Source type: vendor-reported
Evaluator: Amazon Nova technical report and model card
Status: active
Retrieved at: 2026-09-08
Methodology: Vendor-reported result. Nova 2 Lite; Table 1; report benchmark setup

Source Amazon Nova technical report and model card

GPQA Diamond (Show measurement, test conditions, and source)

Source value: 79.6
Score: 79.6
Metric: percent
Unit: %
Category: reasoning
Direction: Higher is better
Source type: vendor-reported
Evaluator: Amazon Nova technical report and model card
Status: active
Retrieved at: 2026-09-08
Methodology: Vendor-reported result. Nova 2 Lite; Table 1; report benchmark setup

Source Amazon Nova technical report and model card

AIME 2025 (Show measurement, test conditions, and source)

Source value: 91
Score: 91
Metric: percent
Unit: %
Category: reasoning
Direction: Higher is better
Source type: vendor-reported
Evaluator: Amazon Nova technical report and model card
Status: active
Retrieved at: 2026-09-08
Methodology: Vendor-reported result. Nova 2 Lite; Table 1; report benchmark setup

Source Amazon Nova technical report and model card

IF-Bench (Show measurement, test conditions, and source)

Source value: 70.8
Score: 70.8
Metric: percent
Unit: %
Category: text
Direction: Higher is better
Source type: vendor-reported
Evaluator: Amazon Nova technical report and model card
Status: active
Retrieved at: 2026-09-08
Methodology: Vendor-reported result. Nova 2 Lite; Table 1; report benchmark setup

Source Amazon Nova technical report and model card

MultiChallenge (Show measurement, test conditions, and source)

Source value: 76.6
Score: 76.6
Metric: percent
Unit: %
Category: text
Direction: Higher is better
Source type: vendor-reported
Evaluator: Amazon Nova technical report and model card
Status: active
Retrieved at: 2026-09-08
Methodology: Vendor-reported result. Nova 2 Lite; Table 1; report benchmark setup

Source Amazon Nova technical report and model card

LongCodeBench 1M (Show measurement, test conditions, and source)

Source value: 84
Score: 84
Metric: percent
Unit: %
Category: text
Direction: Higher is better
Source type: vendor-reported
Evaluator: Amazon Nova technical report and model card
Status: active
Retrieved at: 2026-09-08
Methodology: Vendor-reported result. Nova 2 Lite; Table 1; report benchmark setup

Source Amazon Nova technical report and model card

tau2 Telecom (Show measurement, test conditions, and source)

Source value: 76
Score: 76
Metric: percent
Unit: %
Category: agentic
Direction: Higher is better
Source type: vendor-reported
Evaluator: Amazon Nova technical report and model card
Status: active
Retrieved at: 2026-09-08
Methodology: Vendor-reported result. Nova 2 Lite; tau2-bench Verified; telecom; avg@3

Source Amazon Nova technical report and model card

tau2 Retail (Show measurement, test conditions, and source)

Source value: 76.5
Score: 76.5
Metric: percent
Unit: %
Category: agentic
Direction: Higher is better
Source type: vendor-reported
Evaluator: Amazon Nova technical report and model card
Status: active
Retrieved at: 2026-09-08
Methodology: Vendor-reported result. Nova 2 Lite; tau2-bench Verified; retail; avg@3

Source Amazon Nova technical report and model card

tau2 Airline (Show measurement, test conditions, and source)

Source value: 64.8
Score: 64.8
Metric: percent
Unit: %
Category: agentic
Direction: Higher is better
Source type: vendor-reported
Evaluator: Amazon Nova technical report and model card
Status: active
Retrieved at: 2026-09-08
Methodology: Vendor-reported result. Nova 2 Lite; tau2-bench Verified; airline; avg@3

Source Amazon Nova technical report and model card

BFCL v4 overall (Show measurement, test conditions, and source)

Source value: 60.3
Score: 60.3
Metric: percent
Unit: %
Category: agentic
Direction: Higher is better
Source type: vendor-reported
Evaluator: Amazon Nova technical report and model card
Status: active
Retrieved at: 2026-09-08
Methodology: Vendor-reported result. Nova 2 Lite; BFCL v4; overall function-calling score

Source Amazon Nova technical report and model card

MCP Atlas (Show measurement, test conditions, and source)

Source value: 24.6
Score: 24.6
Metric: percent
Unit: %
Category: agentic
Direction: Higher is better
Source type: vendor-reported
Evaluator: Amazon Nova technical report and model card
Status: active
Retrieved at: 2026-09-08
Methodology: Vendor-reported result. Nova 2 Lite; MCP Atlas blind evaluation; pass rate

Source Amazon Nova technical report and model card

MMMU Pro (Show measurement, test conditions, and source)

Source value: 61.8
Score: 61.8
Metric: percent
Unit: %
Category: multimodal
Direction: Higher is better
Source type: vendor-reported
Evaluator: Amazon Nova technical report and model card
Status: active
Retrieved at: 2026-09-08
Methodology: Vendor-reported result. Nova 2 Lite; Table 3; benchmark-recommended setup

Source Amazon Nova technical report and model card

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Predecessor and successor

Sources and data date

Type	Evidence and data date
Speed	Amazon, Non-reasoning. Output speed after the first streaming chunk, not total response time. Retrieved September 8, 2026. Source: Artificial Analysis · Artificial Analysis (retrieved September 8, 2026)Speed measurement methodology
Price	Base API prices without caching or batch discounts. Higher context tiers and other rates are listed under Costs. Source: Pricing · API pricing
Input	Documented modalities. Retrieved October 2, 2026. Source: Model documentation · Model metadata (retrieved September 8, 2026; October 2, 2026) · Amazon Bedrock model card for Amazon Nova 2 Lite · Editorial description reviewed October 2, 2026
Output	Documented modalities. Retrieved October 2, 2026. Source: Model documentation · Model metadata (retrieved September 8, 2026; October 2, 2026) · Amazon Bedrock model card for Amazon Nova 2 Lite · Editorial description reviewed October 2, 2026
Research status	Research date September 8, 2026. 3 source URLs checked. This documents the inspected sources, not an exhaustive inventory of every publication.
Not found in the inspected sources	parameters-billions Original wording No exact value located in the checked primary model card/API documentation.
Not found in the inspected sources	active-parameters-billions Original wording No exact value located in the checked primary model card/API documentation.
Unresolved	source-discrepancy Original wording Inventory snapshot had only month precision; the model card gives exact 2025-12-02 launch and Oct 2025 cutoff.
Not found in the inspected sources	profile-benchmarks-additional Original wording The report includes figure-only latency/speed curves; no exact Nova 2 Lite TTFT/OTPS scalar was transcribed without a readable table row.
Additional source	Context window data
Additional source	Amazon Nova technical report and model card (retrieved September 8, 2026)
Additional source	Amazon Nova 2 User Guide · Editorial description reviewed October 2, 2026
Additional source	OpenRouter: Popularity index (derived), CC BY 4.0
Additional source	Vercel AI Gateway: Popularity index (derived), CC BY 4.0
Additional source	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0

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