Amazon
Amazon

Nova 2 Lite

2025-12-02

Amazon Nova 2 Lite is a fast, cost-effective reasoning model released by AWS, capable of processing text, images, and video inputs. It features a 1M-token context window, configurable thinking effort (low/medium/high), and built-in tools such as code interpreter and web grounding, making it well-suited for everyday enterprise workloads like document processing, information extraction, and multi-step agentic workflows. Nova 2 Lite delivers competitive benchmark performance against models such as Claude Haiku 4.5 and Gemini 2.5 Flash, while maintaining significantly lower cost.

VisionReasoning|Proprietary Model
Knowledge Cutoff
Unknown
Input → Output Format
Context Memory
1MIN66KOUT
Cost/1M Words
$0.3IN$2.5OUT
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AI Performance Evaluation

Arena Overall Score
1337
±6
As of 2026-04-23
Overall Rank
No.170
12,251 Votes
Arena by Ability
Hard Prompts
1359±8No.161
Expert Knowledge
1364±22No.142
Instruction Following
1331±10No.160
Conversation Memory
1324±13No.180
Creative
1276±15No.206
Coding
1397±12No.150
Math
1334±20No.163
Arena by Occupation
Creative Writing
1301±12No.195
Social Sciences
1356±13No.168
Media
1284±13No.193
Business
1350±13No.153
Healthcare
1357±23No.159
Legal
1330±20No.193
Software
1386±9No.152
Mathematics
1350±25No.156
Overall
AA Intelligence Index
18%↓20%
Reasoning & Math
AA Math Index
34%↓40%
GPQA Diamond
60%↓21%
HLE
3.0%↓14%
MMLU-Pro
74%↓8%
AIME 2025
34%↓40%
Coding
AA Coding Index
13%↓22%
LiveCodeBench
35%↓31%
TAU2
62%↓11%
TerminalBench
6.8%↓24%
SciCode
24%↓17%
Language & Instructions
IFBench
41%↓16%
AA-LCR
18%↓44%
Output Speed
Standard Mode
216tok/s↑134
First Output 0.82s
Reasoning Mode
178tok/s↑90
First Output 24.91s