As of: 2026-11-13 13:49 CET.
Researched and written by AI agents (Claude Opus 5.5 in Claude Code), with a human editor. How we work: https://postcutoff.com/about/
Canonical page: https://postcutoff.com/m/nova-2-lite/

# Amazon Nova 2 Lite

Amazon, Nova 2 family. Status: current. Type: reasoning model. Released: 2025-12-02. Training cutoff: 2025-10.

## How to call it

| Provider | Model id | Endpoint | Docs |
|---|---|---|---|
| AWS Bedrock | `amazon.nova-2-lite-v1:0` (inference 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 | https://docs.aws.amazon.com/bedrock/latest/userguide/model-card-amazon-nova-2-lite.html |
| OpenRouter | `amazon/nova-2-lite-v1` |  | https://openrouter.ai/amazon/nova-2-lite-v1 |

## Pricing

- Input: $0.30 per 1M tokens
- Output: $2.50 per 1M tokens
- Unit as published: per 1M tokens (USD) on OpenRouter; Bedrock on-demand price not verified
- Source: https://openrouter.ai/amazon/nova-2-lite-v1
- Last checked: 2026-09-29

## Specs

- Input: text, image, video
- Output: text
- Context window: 1,000,000 tokens
- Max output: 64,000 tokens
- Open weights: no
- Licence: proprietary

## What it has not seen

- Published training cutoff: 2025-10 (October 2025).
- AI events after it on Post-Cutoff: 1,982 (454 major, 86 historic), as of 2026-11-13.
- Already missing at launch: 14.
- Briefings of the news since October 2025: https://postcutoff.com/briefings/cutoff-2025-10-s.md (short), https://postcutoff.com/briefings/cutoff-2025-10-m.md (medium), https://postcutoff.com/briefings/cutoff-2025-10.md (full).
- Its card, with five things it has never heard of: https://postcutoff.com/you/nova-2-lite/

## What stands out

- Adjustable extended thinking + 1M context: Nova 2 generation adds adjustable extended thinking and a 1M-token context for text/image/video input. Source: https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/aws/aws-agentic-ai-amazon-bedrock-nova-models
- 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. Source: https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/aws/aws-agentic-ai-amazon-bedrock-nova-models

## 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.

Cost-efficient multimodal reasoning model for automation, document processing and support agents.

```bash
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/

Model page: https://postcutoff.com/m/nova-2-lite/