Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Nova 2 Lite offers 811.6K more tokens in context window than o1 mini. Nova 2 Lite is $5.10 cheaper per million tokens. Nova 2 Lite supports multimodal inputs. 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 mini, released by OpenAI in September 2024, is a lightweight reasoning model from the o1 family optimized for efficient STEM problem-solving at lower cost and latency. It features a 128K token context window and applies chain-of-thought reasoning specifically tuned for mathematics, science, and coding tasks. o1 mini targets use cases where rapid, cost-efficient reasoning is preferred over the broader capabilities of the full o1 model.
1 year newer

o1 mini
OpenAI
2024-09-12

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