Amazon · model
Nova 2 Lite
$0.30/1M in · $2.50/1M out · 1M context. That's cheaper than 36% of the 298 models we track, by output price. Here's what it costs, how its price has moved, and where it fits.
- Context
- 1M
- Input / 1M
- $0.30
- Output / 1M
- $2.50
- Modality
- text + image + video + file
- Provider
- Amazon
- Tokenizer
- Nova
Snapshot · source: OpenRouter ↗ · how we measure →
For 1,500 input + 500 output tokens across 200,000 requests/month. That's 57× the cheapest tracked option (Ling-2.6-flash, $6.00/mo).
Flat at $2.50 since tracking began 2026-06-14. Full history →
Where it fits
- Long inputs — a 1M-token window holds roughly 1,500 pages of text at once.
- Multimodal prompts — accepts image input alongside text.
Watch for
- Priced from OpenRouter's routed market, not a first-party list price — availability and rate can shift without notice.
These notes are derived from price, context and modality — structural facts, not measured quality. Measured cost-to-finish-a-task lives on the real-cost index.
Related models
How to read Nova 2 Lite's pricing
Two numbers decide most of the bill: $0.30/1M for input (everything you send — prompt, context, attachments) and $2.50/1M for output (everything it generates, including hidden reasoning tokens). Output is priced 8.3× the input rate here, so the shape of your workload — how much it reads versus writes — matters as much as the headline figure. This row is OpenRouter's routed market price; it can move as providers and routing change.
Frequently asked questions
How much does Nova 2 Lite cost per million tokens?
Nova 2 Lite is priced at $0.30 per 1M input tokens and $2.50 per 1M output tokens, from OpenRouter's routed market price as of the 2026-06-15 snapshot. Output is the figure that usually drives the bill. Enter your own token volumes in the cost calculator for a monthly estimate.
What is Nova 2 Lite's context window?
Nova 2 Lite has a 1M-token context window — roughly 1,500 pages of text. Prompt, attachments, conversation and the model's own output all share that budget, and every token you send is billed at the input rate.
Related
- API cost calculator — your monthly cost for Nova 2 Lite and every other model.
- Model comparison — the full sortable table.
- Price history — how token prices move over time.
- LLM pricing explained — input, output, cached and reasoning tokens.