Amazon: Nova 2 Lite

Amazon's Nova 2 Lite, created on December 2, 2025, is positioned as a fast, cost-effective reasoning model capable of processing text, images, and videos to generate text. The model generally performs among the fastest models, ranking in the 73rd percentile for speed across eight benchmarks. It offers moderate pricing, placing in the 34th percentile. Notably, Nova 2 Lite demonstrates exceptional reliability with a 99% success rate, indicating minimal technical failures. The model exhibits strong performance in specific areas. It achieved perfect accuracy in Ethics, highlighting its ability to discern ethical responses, and performed well in General Knowledge (97.5% accuracy) and Email Classification (97.0% accuracy). Its Coding capabilities are also solid at 88.0% accuracy. However, a significant weakness is observed in its ability to acknowledge uncertainty, with a low 46.0% accuracy in the Hallucinations (Baseline) test, suggesting it frequently fails to correctly identify fictional concepts. Instruction Following (48.0% accuracy) and Reasoning (42.0% accuracy) also present areas for improvement, indicating challenges with complex multi-step directives and abstract problem-solving.