nova-2-lite-v1
Nova 2 Lite is a fast, cost-effective Amazon reasoning model for everyday workloads that can process text, images and videos to generate text.
Pricing: Input 60 credits / 1M tokens (≈ $0.30), Output 500 credits / 1M tokens (≈ $2.50).
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Nova 2 Lite API on ModelFold
Nova 2 Lite is a fast, cost-effective Amazon reasoning model for everyday workloads that can process text, images and videos to generate text. Try Nova 2 Lite in the ModelFold Playground, then call it from your own code through an OpenAI-compatible chat completions API.
What Is the Nova 2 Lite API
Nova 2 Lite at a glance
Nova 2 Lite is a chat model from Amazon. It accepts text, images, video and files (such as PDF) as input and returns text, with a context window of up to 1M tokens.
Use it without hosting anything
On ModelFold you call Nova 2 Lite with a single API key — no model weights to download and no inference servers to run. The same key also works for the other chat, image, video and audio models on ModelFold.
Core Capabilities of Nova 2 Lite
Up to 1M tokens of context
Keep long conversations, large documents and sizeable code in a single request, so the model can reason over the full material instead of fragments.
Understands images, video and files (such as PDF)
Besides text, Nova 2 Lite accepts images, video and files (such as PDF) as input, so a single request can combine instructions with visual or other media.
Function calling
Nova 2 Lite supports tool (function) calling: describe your functions in the request and the model returns structured calls your code can run — the basis for agents and integrations.
Reasoning mode
Nova 2 Lite can produce reasoning before its final answer; in the Playground you can switch reasoning on or off to compare results.
How to Use Nova 2 Lite on ModelFold
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Step 1: Try it in the Playground
Open the Playground at the top of this page, type a prompt and see how Nova 2 Lite responds before writing any code.
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Step 2: Create an API key
Sign in to ModelFold and create an API key in the console. Keep it secret and send it as a Bearer token.
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Step 3: Send a request
Call POST https://modelfold.ai/v1/chat/completions with "model": "nova-2-lite-v1" and your messages. Existing OpenAI-compatible SDKs work by changing the base URL and key.
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Step 4: Ship and monitor
Integrate the response into your product and check token usage and spend for every call in the console logs.
What You Can Build with Nova 2 Lite
High-volume pipelines
Run classification, extraction, rewriting and batch jobs at scale where cost per request matters.
Audio and video analysis
Summarize recordings, meetings and video clips, extract key points and answer questions about their content.
Long-document workflows
Feed in long reports, contracts, manuals or codebases and ask for summaries, comparisons and answers grounded in the material.
Analysis and complex reasoning
Work through research questions, data interpretation, planning and other problems that need careful step-by-step reasoning.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Nova 2 Lite?⌄
Nova 2 Lite is a fast, cost-effective Amazon reasoning model for everyday workloads that can process text, images and videos to generate text.
Which inputs does Nova 2 Lite support?⌄
Nova 2 Lite accepts text, images, video and files (such as PDF) and returns text. Through ModelFold you can send text and images (OpenAI-style image_url content); in the Playground you can also attach documents, which are converted to text.
How long is the context window of Nova 2 Lite?⌄
Up to 1M tokens, shared between your input and the model’s output.
Does Nova 2 Lite support function calling?⌄
Yes. Nova 2 Lite supports tools / function calling through the standard tools parameter of the chat completions API.
How is Nova 2 Lite billed on ModelFold?⌄
Pay as you go by tokens: input and output tokens are charged at the per-million-token prices shown on this page. There is no monthly fee, and failed requests are not charged.
How do I call Nova 2 Lite through the API?⌄
Send a POST request to https://modelfold.ai/v1/chat/completions with "model": "nova-2-lite-v1", using your ModelFold API key as the Bearer token.
| Input | 60 credits 1M tokens≈ $0.30 |
| Output | 500 credits 1M tokens≈ $2.50 |
Billed per token: input and output are priced separately, and thinking tokens count as output. The Playground charges exactly the same way.
Read API docs →AI Agents · Claude Code / Cursor / Trae →curl https://modelfold.ai/v1/chat/completions \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $MODELFOLD_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"model":"nova-2-lite-v1","messages":[{"role":"user","content":"Hello"}]}'