Nova 2 Lite
AmazonReleased Dec 2, 2025
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...
- Context window
- 1M tokens
- Max output
- 66K tokens
- Input
- text, image, video, file
- Output
- text
- Tokenizer
- Nova
- Released
- Dec 2, 2025
- Reasoning
- optional
Pricing
Per 1M tokens. The provider price and our flat 3% fee are separate columns — what you pay is their sum.
| Per 1M tokens | Provider | + 3% fee | You pay |
|---|---|---|---|
| Input | $0.300 | $0.0090 | $0.309 |
| Output | $2.50 | $0.075 | $2.58 |
Benchmarks
Artificial Analysis
- Intelligence index
- 18.2
- Coding index
- 23
- Agentic index
- 3.1
Supported parameters
- include_reasoning
- max_tokens
- reasoning
- stop
- temperature
- tool_choice
- tools
- top_k
- top_p
Call it
OpenAI-compatible: point your SDK at api.openkey.ai/v1 and use model amazon/nova-2-lite-v1.
curl https://api.openkey.ai/v1/chat/completions \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $OPENKEY_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"model": "amazon/nova-2-lite-v1",
"messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Hello"}]
}'import os
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(
base_url="https://api.openkey.ai/v1",
api_key=os.environ["OPENKEY_API_KEY"],
)
completion = client.chat.completions.create(
model="amazon/nova-2-lite-v1",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello"}],
)
print(completion.choices[0].message.content)import OpenAI from "openai";
const client = new OpenAI({
baseURL: "https://api.openkey.ai/v1",
apiKey: process.env.OPENKEY_API_KEY,
});
const completion = await client.chat.completions.create({
model: "amazon/nova-2-lite-v1",
messages: [{ role: "user", content: "Hello" }],
});
console.log(completion.choices[0].message.content);Questions
- How much does Nova 2 Lite cost via API?
- Through OpenKey, Nova 2 Lite costs $0.309 per 1M input tokens and $2.58 per 1M output tokens. That is the provider price ($0.300 / $2.50) plus a flat 3% fee — nothing else.
- What is Nova 2 Lite's context window?
- Nova 2 Lite accepts up to 1M tokens of context and returns up to 66K tokens per request.
- Is Nova 2 Lite OpenAI-compatible?
- Yes. Send requests to OpenKey's /v1/chat/completions endpoint with model "amazon/nova-2-lite-v1" using any OpenAI SDK — only the base URL and API key change.
- What inputs does Nova 2 Lite support?
- Nova 2 Lite accepts text, image, video, file input and produces text output.
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