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Grok 3 mini vs Nova 2 Lite
Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Nova 2 Lite offers 857.7K more tokens in context window than Grok 3 mini. Both models have similar pricing. Nova 2 Lite supports multimodal inputs. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
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xAI
Grok 3 mini, released by xAI alongside Grok 3 in February 2025, is a compact reasoning model from the Grok 3 family featuring RL-enhanced Think mode for extended chain-of-thought processing. It features a 131K token context window and targets STEM tasks, mathematics, and coding applications where cost-efficient reasoning with configurable depth is required.
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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.
9 months newer
Grok 3 mini
xAI
2025-02-17
Nova 2 Lite
Amazon
2025-12-02
Pricing Comparison
Cost per million tokens (USD)
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Grok 3 mini
Input:$0.30
Output:$0.50
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Nova 2 Lite
Input:$0.08
Output:$0.32($0.40 cheaper)
Performance Metrics
Context window and performance specifications
Provider Availability & Performance
Available providers and their performance metrics
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Grok 3 mini
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xAI
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Nova 2 Lite
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Grok 3 mini
Avg Score:0.0%
Providers:1
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Nova 2 Lite
Avg Score:0.0%
Providers:1