vs
1:0
overall capability wins (1 ties across 2 scored). Amazon Nova 2 Lite leads overall.
- Pricing3:0
- Speed2:0
- Specs1:0
Verdict
Amazon Nova 2 Lite allows ~2.0x more max output (66K vs 33K); Amazon Nova 2 Lite is ~5.9x cheaper on a blended token basis than Amazon Nova Premier.
- Amazon Nova 2 Lite allows ~2.0x more max output (66K vs 33K)
- Amazon Nova 2 Lite is ~5.9x cheaper on a blended token basis than Amazon Nova Premier
Cost for 1M in + 250K out
Illustrative chat workload at primary-provider list prices.
- Amazon Nova 2 Lite
- $0.93
- Amazon Nova Premier
- $5.63
Amazon Nova 2 Lite is about 6.1x 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 1, 2025
Knowledge cutoff
-
-
API / provider
AWS Bedrock
AWS Bedrock
Modalities
text, image, video → text
text, image, video → text
Specs
Context window
1M
1M
Max output
66K
33K
Parameters
—
—
Pricing
Input $/1M
$0.30
$2.50
Output $/1M
$2.50
$12.50
Blended $/1M (3∶1)
$0.85
$5
Speed
tok/s
180
80
TTFT (s)
0.25
0.45
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 Premier | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|
| Identity | |||
| Organization | Amazon | Amazon | — |
| Family | Amazon | Amazon | — |
| License | Proprietary | Proprietary | — |
| Open weights | No | No | — |
| Release | Dec 2, 2025 | Dec 1, 2025 | — |
| Knowledge cutoff | - | - | — |
| API / provider | AWS Bedrock | AWS Bedrock | — |
| Modalities | text, image, video → text | text, image, video → text | — |
| Specs | |||
| Context window | 1M | 1M | tie |
| Max output | 66K | 33K | A +33K |
| Parameters | — | — | — |
| Pricing | |||
| Input $/1M | $0.30 | $2.50 | A +$2.20 |
| Output $/1M | $2.50 | $12.50 | A +$10 |
| Blended $/1M (3∶1) | $0.85 | $5 | A +$4.15 |
| Speed | |||
| tok/s | 180 | 80 | A +100 |
| TTFT (s) | 0.25 | 0.45 | A +0.20 |
| 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 Premier
- Context
- 1M / 33K out
- Parameters
- —
- Price
- $2.50 / $12.50
- Speed
- 80 tok/s · 0.45s TTFT
- Modalities
- text, image, video → text
- License
- Proprietary
Amazon's Bedrock flagship multimodal model for AWS-native deployments.
Benchmark charts
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