Amazon: Nova 2 Lite

Amazon Nova 2 Lite is a multimodal model from Amazon that accepts text, images, video, and file inputs, making it usable across a wider range of input types than text-only alternatives. It supports tool use and reasoning, offers a one-million-token context window, and can return up to 65,535 tokens per completion. Structured output support is unconfirmed based on available data. At $0.30 per million input tokens and $2.50 per million output tokens, it sits at a relatively low price point, which makes it worth considering for high-volume or long-context workloads where cost control matters. The tradeoff is transparency: there is currently no independent benchmark coverage, so its quality relative to competitors is unproven. Buyers who prioritize verified performance data before committing should wait for third-party evaluations, while cost-sensitive teams already within the AWS ecosystem may find it a reasonable candidate to test directly.