Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Nova 2 Lite offers 869.1K more tokens in context window than DeepSeek-V3.1. Nova 2 Lite is $0.97 cheaper per million tokens. Nova 2 Lite supports multimodal inputs. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
DeepSeek
DeepSeek-V3.1, released by DeepSeek in August 2025, is a hybrid large language model with 671 billion total parameters (37 billion active) that unifies the capabilities of DeepSeek-V3 and DeepSeek-R1 in a single model. It features a 128K token context window and supports both direct generation and extended reasoning modes selectable via the chat template. DeepSeek-V3.1 targets general-purpose tasks, coding, and complex reasoning under an open MIT license.
Amazon
Amazon Nova 2 Lite, released by Amazon Web Services on December 2, 2025, is a fast, cost-efficient reasoning model available on Amazon Bedrock with a 1M token context window enabling extended document, video, and image analysis. It features three extended thinking intensity levels, built-in code interpreter, web grounding tools, and native support for text, image, video, and document input. Nova 2 Lite targets cost-sensitive agentic applications, document analysis pipelines, and real-time workloads requiring multimodal reasoning.
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DeepSeek-V3.1
DeepSeek
2025-08-21

Nova 2 Lite
Amazon
2025-12-02
Cost per million tokens (USD)
DeepSeek-V3.1
Nova 2 Lite
Context window and performance specifications
Available providers and their performance metrics
DeepSeek-V3.1
DeepSeek
Nova 2 Lite
DeepSeek-V3.1
Nova 2 Lite
DeepSeek-V3.1
Nova 2 Lite
AWS Bedrock