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Nova 2 Lite: price, performance and context

Proprietary Nova 2 Lite by Amazon costs $0.30 per 1M input and $2.50 per 1M output tokens, handles up to 1M tokens in one request (≈ 3,000 pages of text) and scores 13.4 points on the AgentKernel performance index, rank 124 of 212.

Privacy: zero data retention with one provider, including in the EU. Availability over the last 24 h: 100%.

Updated Oct 09, 2026, 17:37 UTC · amazon/nova-2-lite-v1

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Key facts

Licence
Proprietary: no public weights, only through a provider API
Input / 1M tokens
$0.30
Output / 1M tokens
$2.50
Context window
1M tokens
Max. output
65.5K tokens
Performance index
13.4 points · rank 124 of 212
Coding index
23 points · rank 92 of 119
Agentic index
n/a
Cost at your usage
$0.925 / month
Knowledge cutoff
n/a
In the catalog since
Dec 02, 2025
Capabilities
Reasoning, Vision, Tool Calling, Files

What do you get for $10.00?

Rules of thumb from the cost calculator, base rates without caching or taxes.

TaskCost per taskFor $10.00
Chat repliesA question with a short history, a detailed answer$0.0017,500
Email draftsBullet points in, a finished email out$0.0019,300
Document summariesRead 10 pages, write a one-page summary$0.0024,500
Code reviewsReview and comment on 500 lines of code$0.0042,400
Book analysesAnalyse a 300-page book in one go$0.035290

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