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| Attribute | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (Free)nemotron-3.5-lightning:free | Claude Sonnet 5.5claude-sonnet-5.5 | Gemini 4 Argongemini-4-argon |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pricing | |||
| Input | $0 / 1M | $2.00 / 1M | $2.00 / 1M |
| Output | $0 / 1M | $10.00 / 1M | $10.00 / 1M |
| Cache Write | $0 / 1M | — | — |
| Cache Read | $0 / 1M | $0.10 / 1M | $2.00 / 1M |
| Cache Write (5m) | — | $2.50 / 1M | $2.00 / 1M |
| Cache Write (1h) | — | $4.00 / 1M | $2.00 / 1M |
| Web Search | — | $0 / 1M | $0 / 1M |
| Context | |||
| Max context | 1M | 1M | 1M |
| Max output | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Capabilities | |||
| Vision | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Function Calling | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| JSON Mode | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Streaming | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Catalogue | |||
| Provider | NVIDIA | Anthropic | |
| Category | chat | chat | chat |
| Charge type | Free | Pay As You Go | Pay As You Go |
| Released | — | — | — |
| Description | |||
| Summary | NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning is an open Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model with 30B total parameters and 3B active per token, optimized for high-throughput agentic workloads and efficient inference. Its lightweight active compute and open design make it well suited for specialized agents, domain-specific customization, and scalable production deployments where speed, cost efficiency, and adaptability are key. | Claude Sonnet 5.5 is Anthropic's Sonnet-class model for well-scoped everyday work, serving as a direct upgrade to Sonnet 5. It excels at feature development, bug fixing, and creating polished documents, presentations, and spreadsheets, while offering clearer writing and communication than its predecessor. | Gemini 4 Argon is Google's flagship reasoning model, built for complex software engineering, deep mathematical and scientific problem solving, and autonomous multi-step agents. Google trained it to keep context across long, multi-step tasks and to turn long documents mixing text, tables, charts and images into a single grounded output. It leads the Vals Index across finance, legal, coding and tax work, and supports long decode of up to 1M output tokens in a single response. |