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Nova 2 Lite vs Step-3.5-Flash
Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Nova 2 Lite supports multimodal inputs. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
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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.
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StepFun
Step-3.5-Flash, released by StepFun on February 2, 2026, is a Mixture-of-Experts large language model with 197 billion total parameters and approximately 11 billion active parameters per inference. It features a 256K token context window using a 3:1 sliding-window-to-full-attention ratio, processing 100–350 tokens per second. Step-3.5-Flash targets agentic tasks, coding workflows, and open-source deployments requiring frontier reasoning capabilities with efficient inference, under an Apache 2.0 license.
2 months newer
Nova 2 Lite
Amazon
2025-12-02
Step-3.5-Flash
StepFun
2026-02-02
Performance Metrics
Context window and performance specifications
Provider Availability & Performance
Available providers and their performance metrics
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Nova 2 Lite
1 providers
AWS Bedrock
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Step-3.5-Flash
0 providers
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Nova 2 Lite
Avg Score:0.0%
Providers:1
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Step-3.5-Flash
Avg Score:0.0%
Providers:0