Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Nova 2 Lite offers 869.1K more tokens in context window than DeepSeek-V3.2 Thinking. Nova 2 Lite is $2.34 cheaper per million tokens. Nova 2 Lite supports multimodal inputs. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
DeepSeek
DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp (DeepSeek-V3.2 Thinking), released by DeepSeek in September 2025, is the experimental preview release of the DeepSeek-V3.2 model featuring 685 billion total parameters and integrated thinking capabilities. It introduced the architecture and training approaches that became the foundation of the final V3.2 release, including thinking in tool-use and hybrid reasoning modes.
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-V3.2 Thinking
DeepSeek
2025-09-29

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