Amazon Nova 2.5 Sonic
Speech and audio
Price not published
Amazon Nova 2 Lite
Cost-efficient multimodal reasoning model for automation, document processing and support agents.
Model idamazon.nova-2-lite-v1:0
Price$0.30 in, $2.50 out per 1M tokens
Checked29 September 2026
Knows up to October 2025
1,982events after its cutoff
86 historic, 454 major. 378 days of news.
It launched on 2 December 2025, already missing 14 of them. Coverage before 2026 is thin (80 entries for 2025), so this count is a floor.
Five things it has never heard of
Its cutoff, October 2025, is before this chart starts: every mark here is news it has never seen.
How to call it
2 ways to use Amazon Nova 2 Lite, with the model id each provider expects.
| Provider | Model id | Endpoint | Docs |
|---|---|---|---|
| AWS Bedrock | amazon.nova-2-lite-v1:0Inference profiles: global.amazon.nova-2-lite-v1:0, us.amazon.nova-2-lite-v1:0, eu.amazon.nova-2-lite-v1:0 |
https://bedrock-runtime.{region}.amazonaws.com |
docs.aws.amazon.com |
| OpenRouter | amazon/nova-2-lite-v1 |
openrouter.ai |
Pricing
| Input | $0.30 per 1M tokens |
|---|---|
| Output | $2.50 per 1M tokens |
As published: “per 1M tokens (USD) on OpenRouter; Bedrock on-demand price not verified”.
Source: openrouter.ai, checked 29 September 2026.
Specs
- Input
- Text, images and video
- Output
- Text
- Context window
- 1,000,000 tokens
- Max output
- 64,000 tokens
- Open weights
- No
- Licence
- Proprietary
- Training cutoff
- October 2025
- Released
- 2 December 2025
- Status
- Current
- Type
- Reasoning model
What stands out
What its maker marketed at launch, and what people found later, each with its source.
Adjustable extended thinking + 1M context
Nova 2 generation adds adjustable extended thinking and a 1M-token context for text/image/video input.
Built-in code interpreter, web grounding, remote MCP
Nova 2 models support built-in tools (code interpreter, web grounding) and remote MCP tools on Bedrock.
Four assistants, one scale
Amazon Nova 2 Lite is added as a fifth row. Each row runs from what the model knows (graphite) through the months between its cutoff and its launch (hatched) to today (pink).
- GPT-6 Astra 271 at launch, 1,863 today
- Claude Opus 5.5 372 at launch, 1,795 today
- Gemini 4 Hydrogen 1,863 at launch, 1,889 today
- Grok 4.7 387 at launch, 1,829 today
- Amazon Nova 2 Lite 14 at launch, 1,982 today
Show as a table
| Model | Cutoff | Released | Missing at launch | Missing today |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GPT-6 Astra | April 2026 | 3 September 2026 | 271 | 1,863 |
| Claude Opus 5.5 | June 2026 | 22 September 2026 | 372 | 1,795 |
| Gemini 4 Hydrogen | March 2026 | 12 November 2026 | 1,863 | 1,889 |
| Grok 4.7 | May 2026 | 21 September 2026 | 387 | 1,829 |
| Amazon Nova 2 Lite | October 2025 | 2 December 2025 | 14 | 1,982 |
Notes
Amazon’s current GA general model. Nova 2 Pro and Nova 2 Omni were preview-only (Nova Forge) at last check; no Bedrock ids verified.
aws bedrock-runtime converse --model-id global.amazon.nova-2-lite-v1:0 \
--messages '[{"role":"user","content":[{"text":"Hello"}]}]'
Sources: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/bedrock/latest/userguide/model-card-amazon-nova-2-lite.html , https://docs.aws.amazon.com/nova/ , https://aws.amazon.com/nova/pricing/