Plain-English Summary
AWS’s cost-efficient Nova 2 model for multimodal reasoning, agents, and enterprise applications.
Amazon Nova 2 Lite
AWS’s cost-efficient Nova 2 model for multimodal reasoning, agents, and enterprise applications.
Nova 2
Multimodal LLM
GA
Open weights: No
API: Yes — Amazon Bedrock
Technical Notes
Multimodal model accepting text, images, video, and documents with up to 1M context, 65K output, reasoning, and tools.
Best For
AWS-native agents, document/video analysis, enterprise automation
Watch Out For
Available through AWS; portability and deployment are tied to Bedrock services.
Model Specs
- Maker
- Amazon Web Services
- Country
- Not listed
- Family
- Nova 2
- Type
- Multimodal LLM
- Release date
- 2025-12-02
- Date confidence
- Exact
- Status
- GA
- Context window
- 1,000,000 tokens
- Max output
- 65,536
- Parameters
- Not disclosed
- Active parameters
- Not disclosed
- Architecture
- Proprietary multimodal transformer
- Reasoning
- Yes
- Tool calling
- Yes
- Structured output
- Yes
- API available
- Yes — Amazon Bedrock
- Open weights
- No
- Self-hostable
- No
- License
- Proprietary
- Inputs
- Text, image, video, documents
- Outputs
- Text
- Approx. price
- See provider pricing
- How to access
- Provider website
- Model / API ID
- amazon.nova-2-lite
- Knowledge cutoff
- Not publicly disclosed
- Fine-tuning
- Bedrock customization, RAG, agents
- Completeness
- 90 %
- Verified
- Jul 18, 2026
- Snapshot date
- Jul 18, 2026
- Source
- Official source