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Why use Amazon Nova 2 Lite on Vercel AI Gateway?
Vercel AI Gateway offers Amazon Nova 2 Lite with pay-as-you-go pricing at $0.30/1M input tokens. Vercel AI Gateway is a unified AI proxy providing a single OpenAI-compatible API endpoint to 275+ models from 25+ providers including Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Meta, Mistral, DeepSeek, xAI, Alibaba, Amazon, ByteDance, Cohere, MiniMax, MoonshotAI, KwaiPilot, Black Forest Labs, Recraft, Voyage AI, NVIDIA, and more.
Input / 1M
$0.30
Output / 1M
$2.50
Cache
read $0.075
Batch
Not sourced
Setup recipe
Python + curlInstall
pip install openaiAuth
export AI_GATEWAY_API_KEY=...Call
import os
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(
api_key=os.environ["AI_GATEWAY_API_KEY"],Model ID
amazon/nova-2-liteRequest example
import os
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(
api_key=os.environ["AI_GATEWAY_API_KEY"],
base_url="https://ai-gateway.vercel.sh/v1"
)
response = client.chat.completions.create(
model="amazon/nova-2-lite",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello"}]
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)Gotchas
- Use provider model ID "amazon/nova-2-lite", not the LLMReference slug "amazon-nova-2-lite".
- creator/model-name e.g. kwaipilot/kat-coder-pro-v2
- The examples expect AI_GATEWAY_API_KEY; rename it only if your application config maps the new variable.
Pricing
| Type | Price (per 1M) |
|---|---|
| Input tokens | $0.30 |
| Output tokens | $2.50 |
Capabilities
VisionMultimodalReasoningJSON / Tool useStructured Outputs
About Amazon Nova 2 Lite
Amazon Nova 2 Lite is a fast, cost-effective reasoning model for everyday workloads that processes text, images, and videos at 1M token context with improved reasoning over Nova Lite v1.
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Model Specs
Released2025-12-02
Context1m
ArchitectureDecoder Only