Nova 2 Lite pricing & price history
Nova 2 Lite by Amazon costs $0.30 per 1M input tokens and $2.50 per 1M output tokens, with a 1M token context window. The cheapest provider currently charges $0.30 input / $2.50 output.
Price history
No price changes since tracking began on 2026-09-24. We check every 10 minutes.
No real-traffic data for Amazon's own API on this model (it may not be served directly); the table below covers third-party hosts and says nothing about the official API.
Which platform runs Nova 2 Lite most reliably
1 platformsBy 30-day real-traffic success rate, Amazon Bedrock is the most stable and also the cheapest.
| Platform | Last 30 days | Stability | 24 h | 30 min | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amazon Bedrock most stable | Occasional issues (2 d)avg 99.74% | 100% | 100% |
Success rates come from real API traffic routed to each platform (public OpenRouter data), not our probes; each daily bar is the average of that day's samples. Green ≥ 99.5 %, yellow ≥ 97 %, orange ≥ 90 %, red < 90 %. Updated 28m ago.
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About Nova 2 Lite
Nova 2 Lite is a fast, cost-effective reasoning model for everyday workloads that can process text, images, and videos to generate text. Nova 2 Lite demonstrates standout capabilities in processing...
FAQ
How much does Nova 2 Lite cost?
Nova 2 Lite by Amazon costs $0.30 per 1M input tokens and $2.50 per 1M output tokens, with a 1M token context window. The cheapest provider currently charges $0.30 input / $2.50 output. A typical request with 2,000 input and 500 output tokens costs about $0.0019.
What is the context window of Nova 2 Lite?
Nova 2 Lite supports up to 1,000,000 tokens of context and up to 65,535 output tokens per request.
Has Nova 2 Lite’s price changed?
No price changes recorded since ModelBank started tracking it on 2026-09-24.
Is Nova 2 Lite being deprecated?
No retirement date has been announced for Nova 2 Lite as of 2026-11-12.
What are cheaper alternatives to Nova 2 Lite?
Cheaper options include GLM 5.3 Flash ($0.0399/$0.0784), DeepSeek V4.1 Flash ($0.022/$0.40), DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 ($0.098/$0.29), Llama 4 Scout ($0.10/$0.30).