NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning vs Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B
Side-by-side comparison of API pricing, specs, benchmarks, and capabilities
NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning is 96.3% cheaper on blended cost ($0.110 vs $3.00/Mtok)
| Specification |
by DeepInfra
|
by Alibaba
|
|---|---|---|
| Overview | ||
| Status | Current open weights Open weights | Current open weights Open weights |
| Released | Aug 11, 2026 | Aug 8, 2026 |
| Pricing per million tokens | ||
| Input | $0.080/Mtok | $2.00/Mtok |
| Output | $0.200/Mtok | $6.00/Mtok |
| Blended avg | $0.110/Mtok | $3.00/Mtok |
| Cached input | $0.040/Mtok | — |
| Price basis | — | Alibaba Model Studio International list price, single 0<Token≤1M tier, from the vendor's open-source Qwen table. The row carries no discount label, so this is the standard list rate. Alibaba marks the SKU as eligible for the context-caching discount but prints no cache rate in the table itself — its own gateway endpoint quotes $0.25 per 1M cached input tokens while the page's general footnote gives 10% of standard input as its example, so cached input is left unset here rather than picking one of the two. |
| Specifications | ||
| Context window | 256K tokens | 1M tokens |
| Parameters | 30B (3B active) | 2.4T (A95B) |
| Speed (TPS) | — | — |
| Modalities | ||
| Input |
text
|
text
|
| Benchmarks source: Artificial Analysis | ||
| Independent composite scores measured for both models — each on its own scale | ||
| AA Intelligence Index | 23.6 | 57.7 |
| AA Agentic Index | 13.8 | 57.1 |
| AA-Omniscience Index (−100–100) | -17.7 | 4.3 |
| Providers | ||
| Available from |
DeepInfra — $0.080/$0.200/Mtok
|
Alibaba — $2.00/$6.00/Mtok
|
Cost at scale
1M tokens · 50/50 input/output| Volume | NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning | Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B | Savings |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1M tokens | $0.11 | $3 | $2.89 (96.3%) |
| 10M tokens | $1.1 | $30 | $28.9 (96.3%) |
| 100M tokens | $11 | $300 | $289 (96.3%) |
| 1000M tokens | $110 | $3000 | $2890 (96.3%) |
When to pick which
distilled from the pricing and spec data above
Pick NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning if…
- cost dominates: $0.110/Mtok blended vs $3.00 — 96.3% less on the same 50/50 token mix
- your workload re-reads context (agents, RAG, long chats): cached input costs $0.040/Mtok — 50% off its list input price, a discount Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B doesn't offer
Pick Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B if…
- you need the longer context: 1M tokens vs 256K (3.9×)
Summary
NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning by DeepInfra costs $0.080/Mtok input and $0.200/Mtok output, with a 256K-token context window. It supports text input.
Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B by Alibaba costs $2.00/Mtok input and $6.00/Mtok output, with a 1M-token context window. It supports text input.
On a blended cost basis, NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning is 96.3% cheaper than Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B.
Note: Pricing is per million tokens. Actual costs vary with usage patterns, prompt caching, and batch discounts. Always verify against official provider pricing pages.
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