Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Nova 2 Lite offers 705.1K more tokens in context window than o3 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 o3 mini, released by OpenAI in January 2025, is a compact reasoning model from the o3 family designed for efficient, cost-effective STEM problem-solving. It features a 200K token context window and adjustable chain-of-thought effort settings, allowing developers to trade reasoning depth for speed. o3 mini targets science, mathematics, and coding applications where lower inference cost and faster response times are a priority.
10 months newer

o3 mini
OpenAI
2025-01-31

Nova 2 Lite
Amazon
2025-12-02
Cost per million tokens (USD)
Nova 2 Lite
o3 mini
Context window and performance specifications
Available providers and their performance metrics
Nova 2 Lite
AWS Bedrock
o3 mini
Nova 2 Lite
o3 mini
Nova 2 Lite
o3 mini
OpenAI