Nova 2 Lite

Approved Data Classifications

This model is only approved for Open Data. When leveraging NaviGator AI’s suite offerings, please ensure you are selecting models that meet the compliance requirements in accordance with UF’s Data Classifications, grant awards or project specifications, and state and federal law.

Description

Amazon Nova 2 Lite is AWS's fast, cost-efficient multimodal model for high-volume workloads. It was released on December 1, 2024. It accepts text, images, video, and documents as input and produces text output, supports up to a 1M token context window, and can generate up to 65,536 tokens per response. Nova 2 Lite is designed for tasks like RAG, agentic workflows, and multimodal understanding where low latency and cost efficiency are priorities. Pricing is based on input and output tokens; see Amazon Bedrock pricing for current rates.

Capabilities

Model	Release Date	Input	Output	Context Length	Cost (per 1 million tokens)
nova-2-lite	Dec 1 2024	Document, Image, Text, Video	Text	1,000,000	See Amazon Bedrock pricing

info

• 1M represents 1 Million Tokens
• Pricing varies by region and usage tier; see Amazon Bedrock pricing for current rates

Availability

Cloud Provider

Usage

curl

curl -X POST https://api.ai.it.ufl.edu/v1/chat/completions \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer <API_TOKEN>" \
-d '{
    "model": "nova-2-lite",
    "messages": [
        {
            "role": "system",
            "content": "You are a helpful assistant."
        },
        {
            "role": "user",
            "content": "Write a haiku about an Alligator."
        }
    ]
}'

python

from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(
    api_key="your_api_key",
    base_url="https://api.ai.it.ufl.edu/v1"
)

response = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="nova-2-lite", # model to send to the proxy
    messages = [
        { "role": "system", "content": "You are a helpful assistant." },
        {
            "role": "user",
            "content": "Write a haiku about an Alligator."
        }
    ]
)

print(response.choices[0].message)

javascript

import OpenAI from 'openai';

const openai = new OpenAI({
  apiKey: 'your_api_key',
  baseURL: 'https://api.ai.it.ufl.edu/v1'
});

const completion = await openai.chat.completions.create({
    model: "nova-2-lite",
    messages: [
        { role: "system", content: "You are a helpful assistant." },
        {
            role: "user",
            content: "Write a haiku about an Alligator.",
        },
    ],
});

console.log(completion.choices[0].message)

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References

1. AWS - AI Service Card (Amazon Nova 2 Lite)
   https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ai/responsible-ai/nova-2-lite/overview.html
2. AWS - What is Amazon Nova 2?
   https://docs.aws.amazon.com/nova/latest/nova2-userguide/what-is-nova-2.html
3. AWS - Amazon Bedrock supported foundation models
   https://docs.aws.amazon.com/bedrock/latest/userguide/models-supported.html
4. AWS - Amazon Bedrock pricing
   https://aws.amazon.com/bedrock/pricing/