Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Nova 2 Lite offers 734.8K more tokens in context window than Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B. Nova 2 Lite is $0.60 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.
Alibaba / Qwen
Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B, released by Alibaba's Qwen team in September 2025, is a natively multimodal Mixture-of-Experts large language model with 235 billion total parameters and 22 billion active parameters. It features a 256K token context window (with extrapolation to 1M tokens), native support for text, image, and video input, and joint visual-textual reasoning capabilities. Qwen3-VL-235B targets complex visual reasoning, video understanding, and multimodal agentic tasks under the Apache 2.0 license.
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Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B
Alibaba / Qwen
2025-09-23

Nova 2 Lite
Amazon
2025-12-02
Cost per million tokens (USD)
Nova 2 Lite
Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B
Context window and performance specifications
Available providers and their performance metrics
Nova 2 Lite
AWS Bedrock
Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B
Nova 2 Lite
Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B
Nova 2 Lite
Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B
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