Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
GPT-4.1 offers 27.6K more tokens in context window than Nova 2 Lite. Nova 2 Lite is $9.60 cheaper per million tokens. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
OpenAI
GPT-4.1, released by OpenAI in April 2025, is a large language model from the GPT-4 family optimized for coding, precise instruction following, and long-context tasks. It features a 1M token context window and native image understanding, with improved performance on tool-calling and web development benchmarks compared to GPT-4o. GPT-4.1 targets software development workflows, long-document analysis, and applications requiring accurate, instruction-adherent outputs.
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
OpenAI
2025-04-14

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