Introducing Amazon Nova 2 Lite, a fast, cost-effective reasoning model

Today, we’re releasing Amazon Nova 2 Lite, a fast, cost-effective reasoning model for everyday workloads. Available in Amazon Bedrock, the model offers industry-leading price performance and helps enterprises and developers build capable, reliable, and efficient agentic-AI applications. For organizations who need AI that truly understands their domain, Nova 2 Lite is the best model to use with Nova Forge to build their own frontier intelligence.

Nova 2 Lite supports extended thinking, including step-by-step reasoning and task decomposition, before providing a response or taking action. Extended thinking is off by default to deliver fast, cost-optimized responses, but when deeper analysis is needed, you can turn it on and choose from three thinking budget levels: low, medium, or high, giving you control over the speed, intelligence, and cost tradeoff.

Nova 2 Lite supports text, image, video, document as input and offers a one million-token context window, enabling expanded reasoning and richer ...