Which is cheaper, Composer 2 Fast or Nova 2 Lite?
As of August 20, 2026, Nova 2 Lite is 69% cheaper on blended LLM API pricing. Nova 2 Lite costs $0.30 per million input tokens and $2.50 per million output tokens ($2.80 blended 1M-in + 1M-out). Composer 2 Fast costs $1.50 / $7.50 per million tokens ($9.00 blended). Sources: https://cursor.com/docs/models/cursor-composer-2 and https://anotherwrapper.com/tools/llm-pricing. The cheapest LLM for your app still depends on how many output tokens you generate.
How much does Composer 2 Fast vs Nova 2 Lite cost per million tokens?
Composer 2 Fast Cursor API pricing is $1.50 input and $7.50 output per million tokens via Cursor. Nova 2 Lite Amazon API pricing is $0.30 input and $2.50 output per million tokens via Amazon. Use those four numbers, not ChatGPT Plus or Claude Pro subscription prices, when you are comparing APIs.
Which is better for coding, Composer 2 Fast or Nova 2 Lite?
Nova 2 Lite has a published SWE-bench Verified score of 64.5%. Composer 2 Fast does not have that eval on this page yet.
What is the context window for Composer 2 Fast vs Nova 2 Lite?
Composer 2 Fast supports a 200K token context window, while Nova 2 Lite supports 1M tokens. Nova 2 Lite offers a larger context window. Filling a larger window bills more input tokens, so the cheaper-per-million model can still cost more on long documents.
Which model performs better on benchmarks, Composer 2 Fast or Nova 2 Lite?
Shared benchmark scores for Composer 2 Fast and Nova 2 Lite are still limited. Check the comparison table for the evals each model has published. Check the comparison table for GPQA Diamond, SWE-bench, MMLU, HLE, and the other evals we track. Token price and benchmark score together are the usual LLM comparison, not either number alone.
Is Composer 2 Fast or Nova 2 Lite better for production use?
Both Composer 2 Fast and Nova 2 Lite are production API models. For cost-sensitive production traffic, Nova 2 Lite has better economics on the blended 1M-in + 1M-out scale. For maximum capability, weight the benchmark table for your domain. Many production stacks route cheap models for drafts and a frontier model for the hard turn, which is usually cheaper than sending everything to the expensive API.
Can I switch between Composer 2 Fast and Nova 2 Lite in my app?
Yes. Call Composer 2 Fast through Cursor and Nova 2 Lite through Amazon with separate API keys, or through a gateway that already wraps both. Keep prompts in tokens, not characters, when you estimate the invoice. AnotherWrapper templates can swap providers without rewriting auth and billing.
How accurate is this Composer 2 Fast vs Nova 2 Lite pricing data?
List rates are the latest published Cursor API pricing and Amazon API pricing, quoted per million tokens. Official rate sheets: https://cursor.com/docs/models/cursor-composer-2 and https://anotherwrapper.com/tools/llm-pricing. Prompt caching, batch APIs, and committed-use discounts can change the invoice. Benchmark scores are from official publications and independent evals, updated as new numbers land.
What is the output token limit for Composer 2 Fast and Nova 2 Lite?
Composer 2 Fast supports up to an unspecified number of output tokens per request, while Nova 2 Lite supports up to 66K output tokens. Output tokens are usually the expensive half of API pricing, so a higher max output cap is a capability, not a discount.
Which model has better throughput, Composer 2 Fast or Nova 2 Lite?
Neither Composer 2 Fast nor Nova 2 Lite has published throughput data on this page yet. Throughput (tokens per second) and time-to-first-token are why two models with the same per-million-token price can still feel different in chat and agents.
How do I switch the models in this Composer 2 Fast vs Nova 2 Lite comparison?
Use the model pickers at the top of this LLM comparison. Search any model in the index and the URL updates. Open Composer 2 Fast or Nova 2 Lite from the sidebar for the single-model API pricing page, or go back to the LLM pricing table to sort by cheapest blended cost.
