Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Nova 2 Lite offers 705.1K more tokens in context window than o1. Nova 2 Lite is $74.60 cheaper per million tokens. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
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.
OpenAI
OpenAI o1, released by OpenAI in December 2024, is a reasoning-focused large language model that applies extended chain-of-thought processing before generating responses. It features a 200K token context window and native image understanding, demonstrating strong performance on STEM benchmarks requiring multi-step reasoning. o1 targets mathematics, science, and coding tasks where careful deliberation over the problem produces more accurate outputs than direct generation.
12 months newer

o1
OpenAI
2024-12-05

Nova 2 Lite
Amazon
2025-12-02
Cost per million tokens (USD)
Nova 2 Lite
o1
Context window and performance specifications
o1
2023-10
Available providers and their performance metrics
Nova 2 Lite
AWS Bedrock
o1
Nova 2 Lite
o1
Nova 2 Lite
o1
OpenAI