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Amazon Nova 2 Lite Leads Video Understanding Benchmark With Unmatched Price Performance

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Amazon's Nova 2 Lite model emerged as the leader for video understanding in the latest MediaPerf benchmark from Coactive AI, a multimodal (AI that processes multiple data types together) platform. The model achieved an F1 macro score (a metric balancing precision and recall) of 0.377, ranking second in quality while maintaining the lowest cost tested.

Video tagging is traditionally one of the most expensive AI workloads. Nova 2 Lite disrupts this by outperforming significantly larger models, including Gemini 3.0 Pro and Amazon's own Nova Pro, in both accuracy and efficiency. It allows companies to process massive video archives without the high costs of frontier models.

You can now deploy Nova 2 Lite for production video tagging and content moderation via Amazon Bedrock. At $0.54 per hour of video, it is the default choice for high-volume pipelines requiring near-frontier accuracy at roughly 25% of the cost of GPT 5.1.

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Amazon Nova 2 Lite earns the top spot in video understanding. MediaPerf from @CoactiveAI evaluates multimodal models for video understanding tasks that media and entertainment customers run in production. https://t.co/zPgK6Qxsmc

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