# Nova 2 Lite now available on Vercel AI Gateway

**Published:** December 3, 2025 | **Authors:** Walter Korman, Rohan Taneja, Jerilyn Zheng

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You can now access Amazon's latest model Nova 2 Lite via Vercel's [AI Gateway](https://vercel.com/ai-gateway) with no other provider accounts required. Nova 2 Lite is a reasoning model for everyday workloads that can process text, images, and videos to generate text.

To use Nova 2 Lite, set `model` to `amazon/nova-2-lite` in the [AI SDK](https://ai-sdk.dev/). Extending thinking is disabled by default. To enable reasoning for this model, set `maxReasoningEffort` in the `providerOptions`. The reasoning content is redacted and displays as such, but users are still charged for these tokens.

```tsx
import { streamText } from 'ai';
const result = streamText({
  model: 'amazon/nova-2-lite',
  prompt:
  `Derive a correct, optimal algorithm to detect all unique cycles in
   a directed graph, explaining each logical step and validating edge cases.`,
  providerOptions: {
    bedrock: {
      reasoningConfig: {
        maxReasoningEffort: 'medium' // low, medium, or high accepted
      },
    },
  },
});
```

AI Gateway provides a unified API for calling models, tracking usage and cost, and configuring retries, failover, and performance optimizations for higher-than-provider uptime. It includes built-in [observability](https://vercel.com/docs/ai-gateway/observability), [Bring Your Own Key support](https://vercel.com/docs/ai-gateway/byok), and intelligent [provider routing](https://vercel.com/docs/ai-gateway/provider-options) with automatic retries.

Read the [docs](https://vercel.com/docs/ai-gateway), view the [AI Gateway model leaderboard](https://vercel.com/ai-gateway/leaderboards), or use the model directly in our [model playground](https://vercel.com/ai-gateway/models/nova-2-lite).

**AI Gateway: Track top AI models by usage**
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[View the leaderboard](https://vercel.com/ai-gateway/leaderboards)

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