Nova 2 Lite
Nova 2 Lite is a fast, cost-effective reasoning model for everyday workloads that can process text, images, and videos to generate text. Nova 2 Lite demonstrates standout capabilities in processing documents, extracting information from videos, generating code, providing accurate grounded answers, and automating multi-step agentic workflows.
Context window
This model accepts 1M tokens in one request (~750K words of text).
What fits in one request
- FitsShort documentAbout 1,500 words of text
- FitsLong documentAbout 37K words of text
- FitsSmall codebaseAbout 150K words of text
- FitsFull novelAbout 375K words of text
Specifications
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- Context window
- 1,000,000 tokens (1M)
- Max output tokens
- 65,535 tokens (66K)
- Speed tier
- balanced
- Provider
- Amazon
- Release date
- Dec 2025
Capabilities
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- Vision
- Accepts image inputs alongside text
- Supported
- Tool use
- Can call external tools and APIs
- Supported
- Function calling
- Structured function call interface
- Supported
- Extended thinking
- Shows its chain-of-thought reasoning
- Supported
- Streaming
- Returns tokens as they are generated
- Supported
- Web search
- Can browse the web during a request
- Not supported
- Batch API
- Process many requests asynchronously
- Not supported
- Prompt caching
- Reuse repeated prompt prefixes cheaply
- Not supported
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