How much does Nova 2 Lite cost?

Billing is usage-based: $0.3 per million input tokens and $2.5 per million output tokens. There is no monthly minimum. You pay only for the tokens you actually use.

How do I access Nova 2 Lite from inside Iran?

Create a Hormouz account, generate an API key and point your client at Hormouz. Access to Nova 2 Lite is served from inside Iran, so you do not need a foreign credit card, a VPN or any sanction-circumvention tooling.

Is Nova 2 Lite compatible with the OpenAI SDK?

Yes. Hormouz exposes an OpenAI-compatible chat-completions API. Change the base URL to Hormouz and drop in your Hormouz key, and existing OpenAI SDK code runs unchanged.

What context window does Nova 2 Lite support?

Nova 2 Lite supports a context window of up to 1M tokens, which is enough for long documents and extended conversations in a single request.

Can Nova 2 Lite process video?

Yes. Nova 2 Lite accepts text, image and video input and generates text. It is notably good at extracting information from video and processing documents, on top of general chat and coding.

What size context does Nova 2 Lite support?

It supports a 1M-token context window, which is large enough for long documents, extended agent sessions and multi-file inputs in a single request.

Amazon: Nova 2 Lite: AI model

Nova 2 Lite is Amazon's fast, cost-effective multimodal reasoning model that reads text, images and video, with a 1M-token context window. Reachable from inside Iran through Hormouz.

Context window:: 1,000,000 tokens
Input:: $0.3/1M tokens
Output:: $2.5/1M tokens
Type:: text, image, video

Vision
Tools
Streaming
Long context

Thinking levels:

Nova 2 Lite is a fast, cost-effective reasoning model from Amazon's Nova family, built for everyday workloads. It can process text, images and video to generate text, and it shows strong results on document processing, extracting information from video, code generation, grounded answers and multi-step agentic workflows.

It accepts text, image and video input, returns text, and supports a large 1M-token context window with outputs of up to about 65K tokens. Reasoning and tool calling are supported, so it works well as a general-purpose multimodal engine for assistants and automation.

Through Hormouz, Nova 2 Lite is served behind an OpenAI-compatible API and reachable from inside Iran without a foreign credit card. Billing is usage-based at $0.30 per million input tokens and $2.50 per million output tokens.

Nova 2 Lite is a fast, cost-effective reasoning model for everyday workloads that can process text, images, and videos to generate text. Nova 2 Lite demonstrates standout capabilities in processing...

Quickstart

curl https://api.hormouz.net/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer ng-YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "amazon/nova-2-lite-v1",
    "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}]
  }'

Specs

Vendor	Amazon
Type	Text, Image, Video
Context window	1,000,000 tokens
Pricing	$0.30/M in · $2.50/M out
API	Chat Completions
Capabilities	Streaming · Vision · Tools

Benchmarks

Coding Index

Better than 23% of models we compared

Reasoning

GPQA Diamond

Graduate-level scientific reasoning

81.1%

HLE

Humanity's Last Exam

11.6%

IFBench

Instruction-following

70.7%

AA-LCR

Long-context reasoning

60.3%

CritPt

Research-level physics reasoning

0.3%

AA Omniscience

Broad factual knowledge accuracy

19%

Non-Hallucination

Rate of avoiding fabricated answers

8.6%

Coding

Terminal-Bench Hard

Agentic coding & terminal use

16.7%

Agentic

τ²-Bench

Tool-use agents in dual-control scenarios

72.8%

GDPval

Economically valuable tasks

Source: Artificial Analysis

Code example

cURL

curl https://api.hormouz.net/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer ng-YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "amazon/nova-2-lite-v1",
    "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}]
  }'

Python

from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(api_key="ng-YOUR_API_KEY", base_url="https://api.hormouz.net/v1")
response = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="amazon/nova-2-lite-v1",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}],
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)

JavaScript

import OpenAI from "openai";
const client = new OpenAI({ apiKey: "ng-YOUR_API_KEY", baseURL: "https://api.hormouz.net/v1" });
const response = await client.chat.completions.create({
  model: "amazon/nova-2-lite-v1",
  messages: [{ role: "user", content: "Hello!" }],
});
console.log(response.choices[0].message.content);

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FAQ

How much does Nova 2 Lite cost?: Billing is usage-based: $0.3 per million input tokens and $2.5 per million output tokens. There is no monthly minimum. You pay only for the tokens you actually use.
How do I access Nova 2 Lite from inside Iran?: Create a Hormouz account, generate an API key and point your client at Hormouz. Access to Nova 2 Lite is served from inside Iran, so you do not need a foreign credit card, a VPN or any sanction-circumvention tooling.
Is Nova 2 Lite compatible with the OpenAI SDK?: Yes. Hormouz exposes an OpenAI-compatible chat-completions API. Change the base URL to Hormouz and drop in your Hormouz key, and existing OpenAI SDK code runs unchanged.
What context window does Nova 2 Lite support?: Nova 2 Lite supports a context window of up to 1M tokens, which is enough for long documents and extended conversations in a single request.
Can Nova 2 Lite process video?: Yes. Nova 2 Lite accepts text, image and video input and generates text. It is notably good at extracting information from video and processing documents, on top of general chat and coding.
What size context does Nova 2 Lite support?: It supports a 1M-token context window, which is large enough for long documents, extended agent sessions and multi-file inputs in a single request.

Updated 2026-10-13