amazon · Efficient
Amazon Nova 2 Lite
A fast, cost-effective reasoning model with 1M token context. Supports extended thinking with adjustable depth levels and built-in web grounding and code interpreter tools.
- Input
- Text
- Output
- Text
- Discovery tier
- Efficient
Pricing
USD per 1M tokens- Input
- $0.51
- Output
- $4.25
Reference prices as published by the model provider. API example
Specifications
- Context window
- 1M
- Max output
- 65.5K
Side by side
Amazon Nova 2 Lite compared
Specifications, prices, speed and benchmark scores next to each other. Benchmarks below show every compared model too.
| Amazon Nova 2 LiteamazonThis model | Amazon Nova Lite 1.0amazonRemove | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | amazon | amazon |
| Discovery tier | Efficient | Efficient |
| Added | Jan 1, 2024 | Dec 3, 2024 |
| Limits | ||
| Context window | 1MBest | 300K |
| Max output | 65.54KBest | 5.12K |
| Average output | — | 44 tokens |
| Pricing, USD per 1M tokens | ||
| Input | $0.51 | $0.0595Best |
| Output | $4.25 | $0.24Best |
| Benchmark indexes | ||
| Intelligence Index | 8.7Best | 6.7 |
| Math Index | 33.7Best | 7.0 |
| Capabilities | ||
| Reasoning effort | — | — |
Public evaluations
Benchmarks
Independent evaluation results, with how each score ranks among the models in the Noumen catalog.
- Amazon Nova 2 Lite
- Amazon Nova Lite 1.0
Intelligence Index
- Amazon Nova 2 Lite8.7
- Amazon Nova Lite 1.06.7
Amazon Nova 2 Lite: Better than 15% of 326 scored models
Indexes
Math Index
Composite of the math evaluations
- Amazon Nova 2 Lite: 33.7Top
- Amazon Nova Lite 1.0: 7.0
Document reasoning
AA-LCRv1.1
Reasoning across long documents
- Amazon Nova 2 Lite: 18.7%
- Amazon Nova Lite 1.0: 19.0%Top
Reasoning and knowledge
Humanity’s Last Exam
Expert-level questions across academic fields
- Amazon Nova 2 Lite: 2.9%
- Amazon Nova Lite 1.0: 4.3%Top
GPQA Diamond
Graduate-level science questions
- Amazon Nova 2 Lite: 60.3%Top
- Amazon Nova Lite 1.0: 43.3%
MMLU-Pro
Multi-subject knowledge and reasoning
- Amazon Nova 2 Lite: 74.3%Top
- Amazon Nova Lite 1.0: 59.0%
IFBench
Following precise output instructions
- Amazon Nova 2 Lite: 40.5%Top
- Amazon Nova Lite 1.0: 34.1%
Coding
LiveCodeBench
Recent competitive programming problems
- Amazon Nova 2 Lite: 34.6%Top
- Amazon Nova Lite 1.0: 16.7%
Math
AIME 2025
Competition mathematics, 2025 problems
- Amazon Nova 2 Lite: 33.7%Top
- Amazon Nova Lite 1.0: 7.0%
AIME
Competition mathematics
- Amazon Nova 2 Lite: —
- Amazon Nova Lite 1.0: 10.7%
MATH-500
Competition math problems
- Amazon Nova 2 Lite: —
- Amazon Nova Lite 1.0: 76.5%
Legacy evaluations
Terminal-Bench Hard
Earlier terminal task suite
- Amazon Nova 2 Lite: 6.8%Top
- Amazon Nova Lite 1.0: 0.8%
τ²-Bench Telecom
Tool use in a customer-support simulation
- Amazon Nova 2 Lite: 62.0%Top
- Amazon Nova Lite 1.0: 17.5%
AA-LCR (unversioned)
Long-context reasoning, earlier grading
- Amazon Nova 2 Lite: 18.7%
- Amazon Nova Lite 1.0: 19.0%Top
Scores from Artificial Analysis, updated Oct 26, 2026. Artificial Analysis
Developers
Use it through the API
Noumen’s API is OpenAI-compatible: any Chat Completions client works with a base URL and a key.
curl https://www.noumen.xyz/api/v1/chat/completions \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $NOUMEN_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"model": "amazon/nova-2-lite-v1",
"messages": [{ "role": "user", "content": "Explain this stack trace." }]
}'import os
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(base_url="https://www.noumen.xyz/api/v1", api_key=os.environ["NOUMEN_API_KEY"])
reply = client.chat.completions.create(
model="amazon/nova-2-lite-v1",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Explain this stack trace."}],
)
print(reply.choices[0].message.content)amazon
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