Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Nova 2 Lite leads with 12.6% higher average benchmark score. Nova 2 Lite offers 734.8K more tokens in context window than Qwen3-235B-A22B. Nova 2 Lite is $0.60 cheaper per million tokens. Nova 2 Lite supports multimodal inputs. Overall, Nova 2 Lite is the stronger choice for coding tasks.
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.
Alibaba / Qwen
Qwen3-235B-A22B, released by Alibaba's Qwen team on April 28, 2025, is a Mixture-of-Experts large language model with 235 billion total parameters and 22 billion active parameters per inference. It features a 256K token context window, hybrid thinking capabilities (both reasoning and direct generation modes), and was trained on 36 trillion tokens across 119 languages. Qwen3-235B targets complex reasoning, multilingual tasks, and open-source deployments under the Apache 2.0 license.
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Qwen3-235B-A22B
Alibaba / Qwen
2025-04-28

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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AWS Bedrock
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