Nova 2 Lite

by amazon · family nova

Facts

Release date	2025-12-02
Retired date	—
Knowledge cutoff	—
Context (max)	1,000,000
Max output	—
Modalities	text, image, video → text
Aliases	`nova-2-lite-v1`
Open weights	no
Description	AWS re:Invent 2025 next-gen Nova; 1M context, text+image+video+file input. Reasoning via Bedrock reasoningConfig (type enabled/disabled + maxReasoningEffort low/medium/high, default disabled). $0.30/$2.50 per Mtok; more capable than Nova Premier at ~7x lower cost.

Unknown values are shown as —.

Offerings

Provider	Wire ID	Variant	Endpoint	Protocol	Status	Price (USD / Mtok)	Reasoning
OpenRouter	`amazon/nova-2-lite-v1`	lite	chat-completions	openai-chat	ga	0.30 / 2.50	effort · default off · returns reasoning_content

Reasoning controls

OpenRouter· amazon/nova-2-lite-v1· chat-completions effort

reasoning.effort low●mediumhigh

effort · default off · returns reasoning_content

Example requests

OpenRouter · openai-chat · amazon/nova-2-lite-v1

curl 'https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/chat/completions' \
  -H 'Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_API_KEY>' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{
  "model": "amazon/nova-2-lite-v1",
  "messages": [
    {
      "role": "user",
      "content": "Tell me about the weather."
    }
  ],
  "reasoning": {
    "effort": "low"
  }
}'

Python (requests)

import requests

resp = requests.post(
    "https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/chat/completions",
    headers={
      "Authorization": "Bearer <YOUR_API_KEY>",
      "Content-Type": "application/json"
    },
    json={
      "model": "amazon/nova-2-lite-v1",
      "messages": [
        {
          "role": "user",
          "content": "Tell me about the weather."
        }
      ],
      "reasoning": {
        "effort": "low"
      }
    },
)
print(resp.json())

TypeScript (fetch)

const resp = await fetch("https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/chat/completions", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: {
    "Authorization": "Bearer <YOUR_API_KEY>",
    "Content-Type": "application/json"
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({
    "model": "amazon/nova-2-lite-v1",
    "messages": [
      {
        "role": "user",
        "content": "Tell me about the weather."
      }
    ],
    "reasoning": {
      "effort": "low"
    }
  }),
})
console.log(await resp.json())