Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Nova 2 Lite leads with 23.8% higher average benchmark score. Nova 2 Lite offers 1.0K more tokens in context window than Llama 4 Maverick. Both models have similar pricing. Overall, Nova 2 Lite is the stronger choice for coding tasks.
Meta AI
Llama 4 Maverick, released by Meta on April 5, 2025, is a natively multimodal Mixture-of-Experts large language model with 400 billion total parameters and 17 billion active parameters per inference. It features a 1M token context window and supports text and image input, enabling strong performance on both language and vision tasks. Maverick targets open-source deployments requiring large-scale multimodal reasoning, released under Meta's custom license.
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.
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Llama 4 Maverick
Meta AI
2025-04-05

Nova 2 Lite
Amazon
2025-12-02
Cost per million tokens (USD)
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Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 1 common benchmarks
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Performance comparison across key benchmark categories
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Available providers and their performance metrics
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Together AI
Nova 2 Lite
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AWS Bedrock