Amazon Nova 2 Lite v1.0 vs Southeast 3 DeepSeek v3.2
Amazon Nova 2 Lite v1.0 vs Southeast 3 DeepSeek v3.2: Amazon Nova 2 Lite v1.0 is cheaper by 59% on average. Amazon Nova 2 Lite v1.0 from Amazon Bedrock (1,000,000-token context, reasoning, tool calls) vs. Southeast 3 DeepSeek v3.2 from Amazon Bedrock (163,840-token context, reasoning, tool calls). Use Agent Command Center to A/B both in shadow mode and pick the winner per workload.
Side-by-side cost
Live workload comparison
Same workload run through both models. The cheaper one is highlighted.
3,000
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400
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01,000,000
At this workload, Amazon Nova 2 Lite v1.0 is 39% cheaper than Southeast 3 DeepSeek v3.2 — a savings of $184/month ($2,206/year).
Crossover: Amazon Nova 2 Lite v1.0 is cheaper when output/input ≤ 1.57 (input-heavy workloads — RAG, retrieval). Southeast 3 DeepSeek v3.2 wins above (long-form generation).
Current workload ratio: 0.13 (400/3000)
Production recipe — Agent Command Center
strategy: cost-optimized
primary:
model: amazon-nova-2-lite-v1-0
provider: bedrock
fallback:
model: ap-southeast-3-deepseek-v3-2
provider: bedrock
shadow: { sample_rate: 0.05 } # mirror 5% of traffic to compare quality live| Amazon Nova 2 Lite v1.0 | Southeast 3 DeepSeek v3.2 | |
|---|---|---|
| Input price | $0.300/M | $0.740/M |
| Output price | $2.50/M | $2.22/M |
| Context window | 1,000,000 | 163,840 |
| Max output | 64,000 | 163,840 |
| Function calling | ✓ | ✓ |
| Vision | ✓ | — |
| Audio input | — | — |
| Reasoning | ✓ | ✓ |
| Prompt caching | ✓ | — |
| Structured output | ✓ | — |
| Pricing verified | May 12, 2026 | May 12, 2026 |