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Nova 2 Lite

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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 capabilit

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Nova 2 Lite

Added 10 July 2026

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Overview

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...

How to use / API access

Call via OpenRouter with model id `amazon/nova-2-lite-v1`.

  • openrouter · amazon/nova-2-lite-v1 Docs

OpenRouter id: amazon/nova-2-lite-v1

Benchmarks

  • Intelligence Index (artificial-analysis): 13.4 index
  • Coding Index (artificial-analysis): 23 index

Notes

Nova 2 Lite is listed in the EDNA Models directory from the OpenRouter catalogue.

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USAGE / OPENROUTER

How much Nova 2 Lite is used

Tokens processed through OpenRouter each day. It shows what developers actually run, not every company's private traffic.

Tokens, last 7 days
1.2B ▼20.2%
Requests, last 7 days
276K
Tool calls, last 7 days
45.4K
Intelligence score
13.4
Average cost per request
8.8¢
Price per million tokens
$0.3 in · $2.5 out
0500M1B19 Sept: 56.1M tokens, 21.8K requests20 Sept: 57.3M tokens, 20.3K requests21 Sept: 74.7M tokens, 28.8K requests22 Sept: 82.6M tokens, 24.1K requests23 Sept: 73.2M tokens, 26.8K requests24 Sept: 91.3M tokens, 29.5K requests25 Sept: 103M tokens, 38.6K requests26 Sept: 55.7M tokens, 19.3K requests27 Sept: 59.7M tokens, 21.3K requests28 Sept: 89.9M tokens, 30.4K requests29 Sept: 91.4M tokens, 35.9K requests30 Sept: 94.9M tokens, 42.4K requests1 Oct: 148M tokens, 42.6K requests2 Oct: 119M tokens, 40.2K requests3 Oct: 914M tokens, 78.4K requests4 Oct: 158M tokens, 59.6K requests5 Oct: 213M tokens, 61.5K requests6 Oct: 226M tokens, 105K requests7 Oct: 297M tokens, 102K requests8 Oct: 146M tokens, 50.5K requests9 Oct: 183M tokens, 69.7K requests10 Oct: 472M tokens, 43.2K requests11 Oct: 67.6M tokens, 21.3K requests12 Oct: 101M tokens, 37.3K requests13 Oct: 339M tokens, 46.4K requests14 Oct: 160M tokens, 40.1K requests15 Oct: 176M tokens, 45.4K requests16 Oct: 90.4M tokens, 32K requests17 Oct: 76.2M tokens, 22.3K requests18 Oct: 67.3M tokens, 23.4K requests19 Oct: 120M tokens, 38.5K requests20 Oct: 332M tokens, 61K requests21 Oct: 310M tokens, 53.7K requests19 Sept3 Oct17 Oct21 OctSee where it ranks on the leaderboard →

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Price date: 2026-10-18. Prices are USD API token rates. Your app subscription, uploads, browsing and tools are separate.

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Intelligence Index: 13.4 (2026-10-18) ↗Coding Index: 23 (2026-10-18) ↗
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