Amazon Nova 2 Lite on Vercel AI Gateway

Name: Amazon Nova 2 Lite on Vercel AI Gateway
Brand: Amazon Web Services (AWS) AI
Price: 0.3 USD

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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 + curl

Install

pip install openai

Auth

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-lite

Request 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

VisionMultimodalReasoningFunction CallingTool 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.