Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Nova 2 Lite offers 873.0K more tokens in context window than GPT-OSS-20B. Nova 2 Lite is $Infinity cheaper per million tokens. Nova 2 Lite supports multimodal inputs. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
OpenAI
GPT-OSS-20B is an open-weight large language model with 20 billion parameters from OpenAI's open-source model initiative. It targets deployments requiring a smaller, efficient model that can run on consumer or mid-tier hardware while maintaining strong reasoning and coding capabilities relative to its size.
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.
3 months newer

GPT-OSS-20B
OpenAI
2025-08-05

Nova 2 Lite
Amazon
2025-12-02
Cost per million tokens (USD)
GPT-OSS-20B
Nova 2 Lite
Context window and performance specifications
Available providers and their performance metrics
GPT-OSS-20B
Hugging Face
Nova 2 Lite
GPT-OSS-20B
Nova 2 Lite
GPT-OSS-20B
Nova 2 Lite
AWS Bedrock