Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Nova 2 Lite offers 572.4K more tokens in context window than GPT-5 Mini. Nova 2 Lite is $24.60 cheaper per million tokens. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
OpenAI
GPT-5 mini, released by OpenAI in August 2025, is a smaller variant from the GPT-5 family that inherits GPT-5's unified reasoning architecture and multimodal capabilities at a reduced inference cost. It targets high-volume production use cases requiring a balance of intelligence and response speed, offering GPT-5 capabilities for applications where full GPT-5 inference costs are a concern.
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.
4 months newer

GPT-5 Mini
OpenAI
2025-08

Nova 2 Lite
Amazon
2025-12-02
Cost per million tokens (USD)
GPT-5 Mini
Nova 2 Lite
Context window and performance specifications
Available providers and their performance metrics
GPT-5 Mini
OpenAI
Nova 2 Lite
GPT-5 Mini
Nova 2 Lite
GPT-5 Mini
Nova 2 Lite
AWS Bedrock