Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Nova 2 Lite offers 801.0K more tokens in context window than Minimax M 2.5. Nova 2 Lite is $1.10 cheaper per million tokens. Nova 2 Lite supports multimodal inputs. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
MiniMax
MiniMax M2.5 is a large language model from MiniMax extensively trained with reinforcement learning across hundreds of thousands of complex real-world environments. It targets agentic tool use, coding automation, and office productivity tasks, with strong results on software engineering and web browsing benchmarks. M2.5 represents the next generation of MiniMax's M-series models optimized for production agentic workloads.
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.
2 months newer

Nova 2 Lite
Amazon
2025-12-02
Minimax M 2.5
MiniMax
2026-02-13
Cost per million tokens (USD)
Minimax M 2.5
Nova 2 Lite
Context window and performance specifications
Available providers and their performance metrics
Minimax M 2.5
MiniMax
Nova 2 Lite
Minimax M 2.5
Nova 2 Lite
Minimax M 2.5
Nova 2 Lite
AWS Bedrock