Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Grok 3 offers 11.3K more tokens in context window than Nova 2 Lite. Nova 2 Lite is $17.60 cheaper per million tokens. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
xAI
Grok 3, released by xAI in February 2025, is a large language model trained on xAI's Colossus supercluster with substantially increased compute over previous generations. It features a 1M token context window, RL-enhanced Think mode for extended reasoning, and demonstrated strong results on mathematics, coding, and scientific benchmarks. Grok 3 targets complex reasoning, real-time information tasks via X platform integration, and agentic workflows 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.
9 months newer

Grok 3
xAI
2025-02-17

Nova 2 Lite
Amazon
2025-12-02
Cost per million tokens (USD)
Grok 3
Nova 2 Lite
Context window and performance specifications
Available providers and their performance metrics
Grok 3
xAI
Nova 2 Lite
Grok 3
Nova 2 Lite
Grok 3
Nova 2 Lite
AWS Bedrock