Home / Alternatives / Nova 2 Lite Am Alternatives to Nova 2 Lite For coding help for non-developers, Nova 2 Lite scores 0 and costs $5.12 per 1,000 requests. Here’s what beats it on price, on quality, or on privacy.
Overall 0 $0.94 / 1M
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Alternatives to Claude Fable 5.1 Claude Haiku 5.5 Claude Opus 5 Claude Opus 5.5 Claude Sonnet 5 Claude Sonnet 5.5 DeepSeek V4 Pro Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite Gemini 3.8 Flash Gemini 4 Argon Gemma 4 31B IT GLM-5.3 GLM-5.3-Flash GPT-5.6 Sol GPT-5.6 Terra GPT-6 Astra GPT-6 Luna GPT-6 Sol GPT-6.1 Sol Grok 4.7 Kimi K3 MiniMax-M3 Mistral Large 4 Mistral Medium 3.5 Muse Spark 1.3 Muse Wonder Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B A55B Nemotron 3.5 Super VL Nova 2 Lite Qwen3.6 27B Qwen3.8 Max 71% similar Open weights Mi Mistral Medium 3.5 Mistral AI Overall 18+18
Blended / 1M $3.00+221%
Trade-offs ↻ Model page Mistral Medium 3.5 vs Nova 2 Lite Overall +18 Coding +19 Writing +35 Support +40 Value +11 Context 262K Back
64% similar G Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite Google Overall 29+29
Blended / 1M $0.85−9%
Trade-offs ↻ Model page Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite vs Nova 2 Lite Overall +29 Coding +36 Writing +50 Support +46 Value +29 Context 1M Back
61% similar Open weights NV Nemotron 3.5 Super VL NVIDIA Overall 27+27
Blended / 1M $0.24−75%
Trade-offs ↻ Model page Nemotron 3.5 Super VL vs Nova 2 Lite Overall +27 Coding +26 Writing +33 Support +34 Value +33 Context 1M Back
57% similar Open weights G Gemma 4 31B IT Google Overall 28+28
Blended / 1M $0.25−73%
Trade-offs ↻ Model page Gemma 4 31B IT vs Nova 2 Lite Overall +28 Coding +30 Writing +50 Support +51 Value +34 Context 262K Back
49% similar Open weights MM MiniMax-M3 MiniMax Overall 31+31
Blended / 1M $0.53−44%
Trade-offs ↻ Model page MiniMax-M3 vs Nova 2 Lite Overall +31 Coding +45 Writing +46 Support +49 Value +34 Context 1M Back
48% similar Open weights NV Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B A55B NVIDIA Overall 34+34
Blended / 1M $1.05+12%
Trade-offs ↻ Model page Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B A55B vs Nova 2 Lite Overall +34 Coding +51 Writing +43 Support +38 Value +32 Context 262K Back
39% similar Mi Mistral Large 4 Mistral AI Overall 37+37
Blended / 1M $2.07+121%
Trade-offs ↻ Model page Mistral Large 4 vs Nova 2 Lite Overall +37 Coding +55 Writing +34 Support +46 Value +32 Context 1M Back
39% similar xA Grok 4.7 xAI Overall 35+35
Blended / 1M $3.00+221%
Trade-offs ↻ Model page Grok 4.7 vs Nova 2 Lite Overall +35 Coding +52 Writing +36 Support +31 Value +28 Context 500K Back
38% similar OA GPT-6 Luna OpenAI Overall 37+37
Blended / 1M $0.20−79%
Trade-offs ↻ Model page GPT-6 Luna vs Nova 2 Lite Overall +37 Coding +48 Writing +31 Support +31 Value +44 Context 1.1M Back
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