Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Nova 2 Lite offers 865.9K more tokens in context window than Grok 2. Nova 2 Lite is $11.60 cheaper per million tokens. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
xAI
Grok 2, released by xAI in August 2024, is a large language model with 131K token context window and native image understanding, developed with access to real-time information from the X platform. It features multimodal input capabilities and improved reasoning over its predecessor. Grok 2 targets conversational assistants, image analysis, and real-time information retrieval tasks via the xAI API.
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 year newer

Grok 2
xAI
2024-08-14

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