Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
OpenAI
GPT-5.1 Thinking, released by OpenAI in November 2025, is an extended reasoning variant from the GPT-5.1 family that applies chain-of-thought processing to improve accuracy on complex reasoning, mathematics, and coding tasks. It targets analytical workflows where deliberate reasoning over a problem significantly improves output quality.
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.
1 month newer

GPT-5.1 Thinking
OpenAI
2025-11

Nova 2 Lite
Amazon
2025-12-02
Context window and performance specifications
Available providers and their performance metrics
GPT-5.1 Thinking
Nova 2 Lite
AWS Bedrock
GPT-5.1 Thinking
Nova 2 Lite
GPT-5.1 Thinking
Nova 2 Lite