Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
GPT-4.1 mini offers 27.6K more tokens in context window than Nova 2 Lite. Nova 2 Lite is $1.60 cheaper per million tokens. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
OpenAI
GPT-4.1 mini, released by OpenAI in April 2025, is a smaller variant from the GPT-4.1 family designed for efficient, cost-effective deployments requiring long-context understanding. It features a 1M token context window and native image understanding, with maintained coding and instruction-following capabilities relative to its size. GPT-4.1 mini targets applications needing a balance between response speed, cost, and capability, such as production APIs with high request volumes.
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.
7 months newer

GPT-4.1 mini
OpenAI
2025-04-14

Nova 2 Lite
Amazon
2025-12-02
Cost per million tokens (USD)
GPT-4.1 mini
Nova 2 Lite
Context window and performance specifications
Available providers and their performance metrics
GPT-4.1 mini
OpenAI
Nova 2 Lite
GPT-4.1 mini
Nova 2 Lite
GPT-4.1 mini
Nova 2 Lite
AWS Bedrock