Claude Opus 4.1 vs Amazon Nova 2 Lite
Compare Claude Opus 4.1 by Anthropic against Amazon Nova 2 Lite by Amazon, context windows of 200K vs 1.0M, tested across 34 shared challenges.
Our Verdict
Claude Opus 4.1
Amazon Nova 2 Lite
No community votes yet. On paper, these are closely matched - try both with your actual task to see which fits your workflow.
Amazon Nova 2 Lite is 50x cheaper per token — worth considering if cost matters.
Too close to call
API pricing
Cost per 1M tokens
Claude Opus 4.1
Input
$15.00
Output
$75.00
Amazon Nova 2 Lite
Input
$0.50
30× cheaper
Output
$1.50
50× cheaper
Amazon Nova 2 Lite is cheaper on both — 30× input, 50× output
Writing DNA
Style Comparison
Similarity
44%
Claude Opus 4.1 uses 5.2x more sentence length
Claude Opus 4.1
Amazon Nova 2 Lite
61%Vocabulary55%
87wSentence Length17w
0.54Hedging0.38
5.1Bold8.6
6.7Lists3.9
0.38Emoji0.59
1.68Headings1.48
0.13Transitions0.12
Based on 17 + 14 text responses
Research
What we learned reading every model
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