Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Grok 4.1 Fast offers 1.0M more tokens in context window than Nova 2 Lite. Nova 2 Lite is $5.60 cheaper per million tokens. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
xAI
Grok 4.1 Fast, released by xAI in November 2025, is a fast-response variant from the Grok 4 family featuring a 2M token context window designed for high-throughput applications. It omits thinking tokens for immediate responses, reducing latency while maintaining strong output quality. Grok 4.1 Fast targets production APIs, real-time assistants, and cost-sensitive applications requiring long-context understanding at high volume.
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.
15 days newer

Grok 4.1 Fast
xAI
2025-11-17

Nova 2 Lite
Amazon
2025-12-02
Cost per million tokens (USD)
Grok 4.1 Fast
Nova 2 Lite
Context window and performance specifications
Available providers and their performance metrics
Grok 4.1 Fast
xAI
Nova 2 Lite
Grok 4.1 Fast
Nova 2 Lite
Grok 4.1 Fast
Nova 2 Lite
AWS Bedrock