Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Nova 2 Lite offers 734.8K more tokens in context window than Qwen3-Max. Nova 2 Lite is $1.60 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.
Alibaba / Qwen
Qwen3-Max, released by Alibaba in September 2025 as an API preview, is a large language model exceeding one trillion parameters built for complex reasoning and long-context tasks. It features a 262K token context window, hybrid thinking modes that allow switching between direct generation and extended chain-of-thought, and is available as a proprietary cloud API via Alibaba Cloud and Qwen Chat. Qwen3-Max targets demanding reasoning, multilingual analysis, and applications requiring frontier-level performance from the Qwen3 generation.
2 months newer
Qwen3-Max
Alibaba / Qwen
2025-09-05

Nova 2 Lite
Amazon
2025-12-02
Cost per million tokens (USD)
Nova 2 Lite
Qwen3-Max
Context window and performance specifications
Available providers and their performance metrics
Nova 2 Lite
AWS Bedrock
Qwen3-Max
Nova 2 Lite
Qwen3-Max
Nova 2 Lite
Qwen3-Max
OpenRouter