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Nova 2 Lite
Nova 2 Lite is an AI model made by Amazon. Amazon released it on 2 December 2025. It is generally available. Its context window is 1,000,000 tokens.
Nova 2 Lite is an AI model made by Amazon. Amazon released it on 2 December 2025. It is generally available. Its context window is 1,000,000 tokens. Its longest answer is 64,000 tokens. Its knowledge cutoff is October 2025.
- Released
- 2 December 2025 — docs.aws.amazon.com, read 16 October 2026
- Status
- Generally available — docs.aws.amazon.com, read 16 October 2026
- Takes
- Not confirmed: two readings disagree: text, image, video and text, image, video, audio
- Returns
- Text — docs.aws.amazon.com, read 16 October 2026
- Open weights
- Not confirmed: The cited maker pages do not state whether the model's weights are open or downloadable.
- Licence
- Not confirmed: The model card links to terms of use but does not print the licence's own name.
- Context window
- 1,000,000 tokens — docs.aws.amazon.com, read 16 October 2026
- Longest answer
- 64,000 tokens — docs.aws.amazon.com, read 16 October 2026
- Knowledge cutoff
- October 2025 — docs.aws.amazon.com, read 16 October 2026
- API price, input
- Not confirmed: The maker's pricing page does not provide a Nova 2 Lite standard-tier input price in the retrieved page content.
- API price, output
- Not confirmed: The maker's pricing page does not provide a Nova 2 Lite standard-tier output price in the retrieved page content.
- Where
- API — docs.aws.amazon.com, read 16 October 2026
- Parameters
- Not confirmed: The cited maker pages do not publish a parameter count for Nova 2 Lite.
- Model card
- Not confirmed: two readings disagree: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/en_en/bedrock/latest/userguide/model-card-amazon-nova-2-lite.html and https://docs.aws.amazon.com/bedrock/latest/userguide/model-card-amazon-nova-2-lite.html
Benchmarks
Measured by others, not by the maker: each score with the name the measurer gives the model and the setting it ran, its day and its licence.
Arena
- Text Arena, nova-2-lite: 1,335 (1,329–1,341, 12,413 votes), published 15 October 2026
Arena’s leaderboard dataset (lmarena-ai/leaderboard-dataset on Hugging Face), CC BY 4.0: ratings from people’s votes between two anonymous models, as Arena publishes them. Data · CC BY 4.0
Questions
When was Nova 2 Lite released?
Amazon released Nova 2 Lite on 2 December 2025.
Is Nova 2 Lite still available?
Yes: it is generally available, as Amazon states it.
What is the context window of Nova 2 Lite?
The context window of Nova 2 Lite is 1,000,000 tokens, as Amazon prints it.
What is the knowledge cutoff of Nova 2 Lite?
The knowledge cutoff of Nova 2 Lite is October 2025.
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Sources
- Nova 2 Lite - Amazon Bedrock (read 16 October 2026)
- What is Amazon Nova 2? - Amazon Nova (read 16 October 2026)
- Request and response schema - Amazon Nova (read 16 October 2026)
- Amazon Bedrock Pricing (read 16 October 2026)