Nova 2 Lite
Amazon · Active · available in 25 of 31 regions
VisionPrompt cachingBatch inferenceStreaming Tool useEmbeddingsFine-tuning
- Context window
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- Max output
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- Input / 1M
- $0.300
- us-east-1
- Output / 1M
- $2.50
What Nova 2 Lite is good for
editorialNova 2 Lite offers prompt caching with image input at $0.300 per 1M input tokens. Callable in 25 of 31 regions.
Suits
- Repeated prompts. Supports prompt caching, so a re-sent prefix costs about 4× less than fresh input. On agentic loops that resend a long system prompt every step, this moves the bill more than the headline price does.
- Images. Accepts image input: screenshots, scanned documents, charts and UI captures.
- Bulk jobs. Batch inference is available, typically at half the on-demand rate, for work that can wait — backfills, nightly enrichment, evaluation runs.
Think twice if
- Function calling. No tool use, so it cannot drive an agent loop or call your APIs — it answers from what is in the prompt.
- Invocation. Reachable only through a cross-region inference profile — calling the bare model ID returns a validation error. Use an ID such as eu.amazon.nova-2-lite-v1:0.
This section is judgement, not data from AWS. It is composed from the capabilities, context window, price position and region coverage shown elsewhere on this page — so it stays in step with the daily snapshot rather than going stale.
Where teams typically use it
Chat and assistants
Conversational work where responsiveness matters as much as depth.
- · A customer-facing assistant where the first token needs to appear in under a second.
- · An in-product copilot that explains what the user is looking at and answers follow-ups.
- · A triage bot that qualifies an incoming request before routing it to the right team.
RAG and retrieval
Answering from your own documents, with the retrieved passages in the prompt.
- · An internal search over contracts and policies that quotes the clause it answered from.
- · A product assistant grounded in the current documentation rather than the training data.
- · A research summariser that reads twenty retrieved papers and reconciles where they disagree.
Model & inference profile IDs
Base model ID — direct on-demand invoke
Cross-region inference profiles (4)
Regions marked Inference profile only require a profile ID rather than the base model ID — invoking the base ID there returns a validation error. Regional (us., eu.) profiles carry a 10% premium over global.
Pricing by region
USD per 1M tokens| Region | Input | Output | Cache read | Cache write | Batch in | Batch out | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| us-east-1 US East (N. Virginia) | $0.300 | $2.50 | $0.075 | $0 | $0.150 | $1.25 | API |
| us-east-2 US East (Ohio) | $0.300 | $2.50 | $0.075 | $0 | $0.150 | $1.25 | API |
| us-west-1 US West (N. California) | $0.390 | $3.21 | $0.098 | $0 | $0.195 | $1.60 | API |
| us-west-2 US West (Oregon) | $0.300 | $2.50 | $0.075 | $0 | $0.150 | $1.25 | API |
| ca-central-1 Canada (Central) | $0.320 | $2.67 | $0.080 | $0 | $0.160 | $1.33 | API |
| ca-west-1 Canada West (Calgary) | $0.340 | $2.81 | $0.850 | $0 | $0.170 | $1.41 | API |
| eu-west-1 EU (Ireland) | $0.340 | $2.87 | $0.085 | $0 | $0.170 | $1.44 | API |
| eu-west-2 EU (London) | $0.420 | $3.52 | $0.105 | $0 | $0.210 | $1.76 | API |
| eu-west-3 EU (Paris) | $0.440 | $3.69 | $0.110 | $0 | $0.220 | $1.84 | API |
| eu-central-1 EU (Frankfurt) | $0.390 | $3.27 | $0.098 | $0 | $0.195 | $1.64 | API |
| eu-north-1 EU (Stockholm) | $0.330 | $2.72 | $0.083 | $0 | $0.195 | $1.36 | API |
| eu-south-1 EU (Milan) | $0.481 | $4.10 | $0.083 | $0 | $0.240 | $2.00 | API |
| eu-south-2 Europe (Spain) | $0.330 | $2.75 | $0.083 | $0 | $0.165 | $1.38 | API |
| ap-east-2 Asia Pacific (Taipei) | $0.360 | $3.01 | $0.090 | $0 | $0.180 | $1.51 | API |
| ap-northeast-1 Asia Pacific (Tokyo) | $0.360 | $3.01 | $0.090 | $0 | $0.180 | $1.51 | API |
| ap-northeast-2 Asia Pacific (Seoul) | $0.360 | $2.96 | $0.090 | $0 | $0.180 | $1.48 | API |
| ap-south-1 Asia Pacific (Mumbai) | $0.350 | $2.95 | $0.087 | $0 | $0.175 | $1.47 | API |
| ap-southeast-1 Asia Pacific (Singapore) | $0.410 | $3.39 | $0.102 | $0 | $0.205 | $1.69 | API |
| ap-southeast-2 Asia Pacific (Sydney) | $0.320 | $2.63 | $0.080 | $0 | $0.160 | $1.31 | API |
| ap-southeast-3 Asia Pacific (Jakarta) | $0.320 | $2.64 | $0.080 | $0 | $0.160 | $1.31 | API |
| ap-southeast-4 Asia Pacific (Melbourne) | $0.330 | $2.71 | $0.083 | $0 | $0.165 | $1.35 | API |
| ap-southeast-5 Asia Pacific (Malaysia) | $0.410 | $3.39 | $0.102 | $0 | $0.205 | $1.69 | API |
| ap-southeast-6 Asia Pacific (New Zealand) | $0.320 | $2.63 | $0.080 | $0 | $0.160 | $1.31 | API |
| ap-southeast-7 Asia Pacific (Thailand) | $0.410 | $3.39 | $0.102 | $0 | $0.205 | $1.69 | API |
| il-central-1 Israel (Tel Aviv) | $0.380 | $3.13 | $0.095 | $0 | $0.190 | $1.66 | API |
Region availability
Inference profile only us-east-1 Profile only Inference profile only us-east-2 Profile only Inference profile only us-west-1 Profile only Inference profile only us-west-2 Profile only Inference profile only ca-central-1 Profile only Inference profile only ca-west-1 Profile only Not available mx-central-1 Not available Inference profile only eu-west-1 Profile only Inference profile only eu-west-2 Profile only Inference profile only eu-west-3 Profile only Inference profile only eu-central-1 Profile only Not available eu-central-2 Not available Inference profile only eu-north-1 Profile only Inference profile only eu-south-1 Profile only Inference profile only eu-south-2 Profile only Inference profile only ap-east-2 Profile only Inference profile only ap-northeast-1 Profile only Inference profile only ap-northeast-2 Profile only Not available ap-northeast-3 Not available Inference profile only ap-south-1 Profile only Not available ap-south-2 Not available Inference profile only ap-southeast-1 Profile only Inference profile only ap-southeast-2 Profile only Inference profile only ap-southeast-3 Profile only Inference profile only ap-southeast-4 Profile only Inference profile only ap-southeast-5 Profile only Inference profile only ap-southeast-6 Profile only Inference profile only ap-southeast-7 Profile only Inference profile only il-central-1 Profile only Not available af-south-1 Not available Not available sa-east-1 Not available
TPM / RPM are default account quotas from AWS Service Quotas where a model-specific limit is published. They are per-account defaults and adjustable on request.
Where this model actually runs
Under a strict residency constraint, Nova 2 Lite can be served without the request leaving 3 of the 25 jurisdictions with a Bedrock region.
Nova 2 Lite appears in
Common questions
- How much does Nova 2 Lite cost on Amazon Bedrock?
- $0.300 per 1M input tokens and $2.50 per 1M output tokens in us-east-1. Cached input reads at $0.075, roughly a tenth of the input rate, which dominates the bill on agentic workloads that re-send a long prefix.
- Which AWS regions support Nova 2 Lite?
- 25 of 31 regions: us-east-1, us-east-2, us-west-1, us-west-2, ca-central-1, ca-west-1, eu-west-1, eu-west-2, eu-west-3, eu-central-1, eu-north-1, eu-south-1, eu-south-2, ap-east-2, ap-northeast-1, ap-northeast-2, ap-south-1, ap-southeast-1, ap-southeast-2, ap-southeast-3, ap-southeast-4, ap-southeast-5, ap-southeast-6, ap-southeast-7, il-central-1. Regions marked profile-only need a cross-region inference profile ID such as eu.amazon.nova-2-lite-v1:0 rather than the bare model ID.
- What is the model ID for Nova 2 Lite on Bedrock?
- amazon.nova-2-lite-v1:0. In regions where it is only reachable through a cross-region inference profile, use a prefixed ID instead: eu.amazon.nova-2-lite-v1:0, global.amazon.nova-2-lite-v1:0, jp.amazon.nova-2-lite-v1:0.