Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Nova 2 Lite offers 740.9K more tokens in context window than Kimi K2 Thinking. Nova 2 Lite is $4.60 cheaper per million tokens. Nova 2 Lite supports multimodal inputs. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
Moonshot AI
Kimi K2 Thinking, released by Moonshot AI on November 6, 2025, is a reasoning-focused variant of Kimi K2 with 1 trillion total parameters and 32 billion active parameters, featuring extended chain-of-thought processing for complex problem solving. It builds on K2's agentic coding strengths with additional capabilities for mathematical and scientific reasoning. Kimi K2 Thinking targets open-source deployments requiring deep, deliberate reasoning across coding and analytical domains.
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.
26 days newer
Kimi K2 Thinking
Moonshot AI
2025-11-06

Nova 2 Lite
Amazon
2025-12-02
Cost per million tokens (USD)
Kimi K2 Thinking
Nova 2 Lite
Context window and performance specifications
Available providers and their performance metrics
Kimi K2 Thinking
Moonshot AI
Nova 2 Lite
Kimi K2 Thinking
Nova 2 Lite
Kimi K2 Thinking
Nova 2 Lite
AWS Bedrock