nvidia/nemotron-3-nano-30b-a3b vs nvidia/nemotron-3.5-lightning
For 100,000 calls of 2,000 in and 500 out, nvidia/nemotron-3-nano-30b-a3b is cheaper: $20.00 a month at Novita AI, against $24.00 for nvidia/nemotron-3.5-lightning at OpenRouter — 1.2× the cost.
Cheapest on each
nvidia/nemotron-3-nano-30b-a3b
$20.00/mo
cheapest, at Novita AI — $0.05 in, $0.2 out per million
nvidia/nemotron-3.5-lightning
$24.00/mo
cheapest, at OpenRouter — $0.07 in, $0.2 out per million
Aligned facts
Same rows on both sides, including the ones we cannot fill.
| Attribute | nvidia/nemotron-3-nano-30b-a3b | nvidia/nemotron-3.5-lightning |
|---|---|---|
| Context window | 262K | 262K |
| Accepts | Aa | Aa |
| Sellers | 2 | 1 |
| Cheapest input rate | $0.05 / M | $0.07 / M |
| Cached input rate | ○ no answer | $0.04 / M |
No quality or benchmark row appears here. We hold no throughput or accuracy measurement for either model, and a cost-per-quality figure built from a lab’s own claim would look authoritative and mean nothing.
Cost for this workload — both models, every seller
100,000 calls a month · 2,000 input and 500 output tokens each. Sellers of both models lead, cheapest combined cost first.
| Seller | nvidia/nemotron-3-nano-30b-a3b /mo | nvidia/nemotron-3.5-lightning /mo |
|---|---|---|
| OpenRouter | $24.002026-10-27 | $24.002026-10-27 |
| Novita AI | $20.002026-10-22 | ○ no answer |
Cheapest tier per seller, this workload only. In and output rates, and a cached prefix, are broken out in the cost calculator.