What is Nova 2 Lite API?
Nova 2 Lite is available through AIMLAPI.
Technical Specifications
- Supported inputs: Image, Text
- Output: Text
- Context window: 1,000,000 tokens / Max output: 65,535 tokens
- Endpoint: /chat/completions
Performance Benchmarks
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Nova 2 Lite API Pricing
- Input: $0.39 / 1M tokens
- Output: $3.25 / 1M tokens
Where to Use Nova 2 Lite
Coding and code review
Generate, debug, and review code across languages, reading whole files or repos in a single prompt.
Agentic and multi-step workflows
Reliable tool-calling and instruction-following suit agent loops that plan, call tools, and iterate.
Complex reasoning
Extended reasoning improves reliability on multi-step math, logic, and technical analysis.
Long-document analysis
Summarize and extract from contracts, papers, and reports without aggressive chunking.
Code Sample
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Measured on the AI/ML API gateway across live traffic. Figures are medians unless stated. Last updated 2026-10-12.
Customer service chatbots, document processing, and business process automation are explicitly cited as early customer use cases for Nova 2 Lite.
Amazon documents the model as suited for multimodal tasks that involve documents, charts, images, and videos, including complex multi-turn tasks, retrieval-augmented generation, and agentic workflows.
It is also described as fitting enterprise systems such as conversational assistants, content moderation systems, predictive systems, cybersecurity, and human-AI collaboration systems.
AWS also lists high-volume applications that prioritize speed and cost efficiency, including video analysis pipelines that extract insights, generate summaries, and identify key moments in video content at scale.
import requests r = requests.post( "https://api.aimlapi.com/v1/chat/completions", headers={"Authorization": "Bearer " + AIMLAPI_KEY}, json={ "model": "amazon/nova-2-lite-v1", "messages": [ { "role": "user", "content": "Hello!" } ] }, ) print(r.json())
const r = await fetch("https://api.aimlapi.com/v1/chat/completions", { method: "POST", headers: { Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.AIMLAPI_KEY}`, "Content-Type": "application/json", }, body: JSON.stringify({ "model": "amazon/nova-2-lite-v1", "messages": [ { "role": "user", "content": "Hello!" } ] }), }); console.log(await r.json());
curl -X POST https://api.aimlapi.com/v1/chat/completions \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $AIMLAPI_KEY" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{"model":"amazon/nova-2-lite-v1","messages":[{"role":"user","content":"Hello!"}]}'
OpenAI-compatible — swap the base URL and it works with your existing SDK.
| Type | Price |
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| Model | Input | Output | Context | Best for |
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Nova 2 Lite This page | Reasoning + agents | |||
| Reasoning + agents | ||||
| Balanced coding + agents | ||||
| Long-context, multimodal & agentic workflows | ||||
| Reasoning + agents |
Nova 2 Lite has a 1,000,000 tokens context window and can return up to 65,535 tokens.
Nova 2 Lite takes image, text as input and returns text.
Use amazon/nova-2-lite-v1 as the model id. Requests go to https://api.aimlapi.com/v1/chat/completions.
Nova 2 Lite is priced at input $0.41262 / 1M tokens, output $3.4385 / 1M tokens.
Yes, Nova 2 Lite can stream responses as they are generated.
Yes, Nova 2 Lite accepts image input alongside text.
Yes, Nova 2 Lite includes a web search feature as part of its capabilities.
Nova 2 Lite supports function calling, reasoning, streaming, structured outputs, and web search.
