vs
2:0
overall capability wins (0 ties across 2 scored). Amazon Nova 2 Lite leads overall.
- Pricing0:3
- Speed0:2
- Specs2:0
Verdict
Amazon Nova 2 Lite offers ~7.8x larger context (1M vs 128K); Amazon Nova 2 Lite allows ~6.6x more max output (66K vs 10K); Amazon Nova Micro is ~13.9x cheaper on a blended token basis than Amazon Nova 2 Lite.
- Amazon Nova 2 Lite offers ~7.8x larger context (1M vs 128K)
- Amazon Nova 2 Lite allows ~6.6x more max output (66K vs 10K)
- Amazon Nova Micro is ~13.9x cheaper on a blended token basis than Amazon Nova 2 Lite
Cost for 1M in + 250K out
Illustrative chat workload at primary-provider list prices.
- Amazon Nova 2 Lite
- $0.93
- Amazon Nova Micro
- $0.07
Amazon Nova Micro is about 13.2x cheaper on this workload.
Price per 1M tokens
Full comparison
Organization
Amazon
Amazon
Family
Amazon
Amazon
License
Proprietary
Proprietary
Open weights
No
No
Release
Dec 2, 2025
Dec 3, 2024
Knowledge cutoff
-
-
API / provider
AWS Bedrock
AWS Bedrock
Modalities
text, image, video → text
text → text
Specs
Context window
1M
128K
Max output
66K
10K
Parameters
—
—
Pricing
Input $/1M
$0.30
$0.04
Output $/1M
$2.50
$0.14
Blended $/1M (3∶1)
$0.85
$0.06
Speed
tok/s
180
200
TTFT (s)
0.25
0.15
Reasoning
MMLU-Pro
—
—
GPQA Diamond
—
—
Humanity's Last Exam
—
—
AIME 2025
—
—
MATH-500
—
—
Humanity's Last Exam (with tools)
—
—
AA-Omniscience Accuracy
—
—
AA-LCR v1.1
—
—
CritPt
—
—
MMMU-Pro
—
—
IFBench
—
—
Chartography
—
—
Chartography (With Tools)
—
—
Coding
SWE-bench Verified
—
—
SWE-bench Pro
—
—
SWE-bench Multilingual
—
—
LiveCodeBench
—
—
Terminal-Bench 2.1
—
—
Aider Polyglot
—
—
Terminal-Bench 3
—
—
BigCodeBench
—
—
SciCode
—
—
CursorBench
—
—
SWE-Rebench
—
—
NL2Repo-Bench
—
—
DeepSWE
—
—
WebDev Arena
—
—
Terminal-Bench 4.0
—
—
CursorBench 4.0
—
—
FrontierCode v1.1 (Main)
—
—
Arena
LMArena Elo
—
—
| Metric | Amazon Nova 2 Lite | Amazon Nova Micro | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|
| Identity | |||
| Organization | Amazon | Amazon | — |
| Family | Amazon | Amazon | — |
| License | Proprietary | Proprietary | — |
| Open weights | No | No | — |
| Release | Dec 2, 2025 | Dec 3, 2024 | — |
| Knowledge cutoff | - | - | — |
| API / provider | AWS Bedrock | AWS Bedrock | — |
| Modalities | text, image, video → text | text → text | — |
| Specs | |||
| Context window | 1M | 128K | A +872K |
| Max output | 66K | 10K | A +56K |
| Parameters | — | — | — |
| Pricing | |||
| Input $/1M | $0.30 | $0.04 | B +$0.27 |
| Output $/1M | $2.50 | $0.14 | B +$2.36 |
| Blended $/1M (3∶1) | $0.85 | $0.06 | B +$0.79 |
| Speed | |||
| tok/s | 180 | 200 | B +20 |
| TTFT (s) | 0.25 | 0.15 | B +0.10 |
| Reasoning | |||
| MMLU-Pro | — | — | — |
| GPQA Diamond | — | — | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam | — | — | — |
| AIME 2025 | — | — | — |
| MATH-500 | — | — | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam (with tools) | — | — | — |
| AA-Omniscience Accuracy | — | — | — |
| AA-LCR v1.1 | — | — | — |
| CritPt | — | — | — |
| MMMU-Pro | — | — | — |
| IFBench | — | — | — |
| Chartography | — | — | — |
| Chartography (With Tools) | — | — | — |
| Coding | |||
| SWE-bench Verified | — | — | — |
| SWE-bench Pro | — | — | — |
| SWE-bench Multilingual | — | — | — |
| LiveCodeBench | — | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | — | — | — |
| Aider Polyglot | — | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 3 | — | — | — |
| BigCodeBench | — | — | — |
| SciCode | — | — | — |
| CursorBench | — | — | — |
| SWE-Rebench | — | — | — |
| NL2Repo-Bench | — | — | — |
| DeepSWE | — | — | — |
| WebDev Arena | — | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 4.0 | — | — | — |
| CursorBench 4.0 | — | — | — |
| FrontierCode v1.1 (Main) | — | — | — |
| Arena | |||
| LMArena Elo | — | — | — |
Amazon Nova 2 Lite
- Context
- 1M / 66K out
- Parameters
- —
- Price
- $0.30 / $2.50
- Speed
- 180 tok/s · 0.25s TTFT
- Modalities
- text, image, video → text
- License
- Proprietary
Nova 2 generation flagship understanding model with extended thinking, 1M context, and built-in web grounding / code interpreter.
Amazon Nova Micro
- Context
- 128K / 10K out
- Parameters
- —
- Price
- $0.04 / $0.14
- Speed
- 200 tok/s · 0.15s TTFT
- Modalities
- text → text
- License
- Proprietary
Text-only Nova understanding model - lowest-latency / lowest-cost Amazon first-party SKU on Bedrock.
Benchmark charts
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