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Amazon Nova 2 LitevsDeepSeek R1
Amazon Nova 2 Lite leads 2 of 3 shared benchmarks. Amazon Nova 2 Lite has the larger context window (1M tokens).
Benchmarks from cited public sources; pricing from official pages; status from official provider feeds.
Shared benchmarks
2 – 1
Amazon Nova 2 Lite leads
Cheaper per token
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list price, input + output
Larger context
Amazon Nova 2 Lite
1M tokens
Provider uptime (30d)
— · 100%
Amazon · DeepSeek
Amazon Nova 2 Lite
Amazon · released 2025-12-02
textvision
- Context
- 1M
- Max out
- 66K
- Input /1M
- —
- Output /1M
- —
- Cached /1M
- —
- Scores
- 12 · 3 core
DeepSeek R1
DeepSeek · released 2025-01-20
text
- Context
- 128K
- Max out
- 33K
- Input /1M
- —
- Output /1M
- —
- Cached /1M
- —
- Scores
- 8 · 7 core
Quality
Benchmark matrix
3 shared · 9 only Amazon Nova 2 Lite · 4 only DeepSeek R1| Benchmark | Amazon Nova 2 Lite | DeepSeek R1 | Δ | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reported by both · 3 | ||||
| GPQA Diamond | 79.6% ↗ | 71.5% ↗ | +8.1 pt | Amazon Nova 2 Lite |
| MMLU-Pro | 80.9% ↗ | 84% ↗ | -3.1 pt | DeepSeek R1 |
| AIME 2025 | 91% ↗ | 70% ↗matharena | +21 pt | Amazon Nova 2 Lite |
| Only Amazon Nova 2 Lite reports · 9 | ||||
| BFCL v4 | 60.3% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| IF-Bench | 70.8% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| LongCodeBench 1M | 84% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| MCP Atlas | 24.6% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| MultiChallenge | 76.6% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| RealKIE-FCC Verified | 62.1% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| tau2-bench Airline Verified | 64.8% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| tau2-bench Retail Verified | 76.5% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| tau2-bench Telecom | 76% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| Only DeepSeek R1 reports · 4 | ||||
| SWE-bench Verified | not reported | 49.2% ↗ | — | — |
| MMLU | not reported | 90.8% ↗ | — | — |
| LMArena Elo | not reported | 1372.6 ↗ | — | — |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 (Epoch AI run) | not reported | 53.3% ↗epoch | — | — |
Scores tagged "epoch" or "matharena" are independent runs, used only where the lab has not published its own; ⚠ marks rows MathArena flags as released after the competition. Higher is better on every row. Δ is Amazon Nova 2 Lite minus DeepSeek R1 in the benchmark's own unit. "Not reported" means the lab has not published that figure; it is not a zero. ↗ opens the source.
Specs & pricing
Side by side
Official pricing pages and model cards| Spec | Amazon Nova 2 Lite | DeepSeek R1 | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|
| Context window | 1M tokens | 128K tokens | Amazon Nova 2 Lite |
| Max output | 66K tokens | 33K tokens | Amazon Nova 2 Lite |
| Input price / 1M | — | — | — |
| Output price / 1M | — | — | — |
| Cached input / 1M | — | — | — |
| Input + output / 1M Lower is cheaper. List prices; batch, tool and regional fees excluded. | — | — | — |
| Modalities | text · vision | text | Amazon Nova 2 Lite |
| Released | 2025-12-02 | 2025-01-20 | — |
| Cited benchmark scores | 12 | 8 | — |
Reliability
Provider status
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