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DeepSeek V4 Pro vs Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B

Side-by-side specs, pricing & capabilities · Updated August 2026

Price vs Intelligence

554228140$0.37$0.49$0.61$0.73$0.85Avg Price per M tokensIntelligenceDeepSeek V4 Pro45.4 / $0.65Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B6.3 / $0.53

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 DeepSeekDeepSeek V4 ProNVIDIANemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B
OrganizationDeepSeekDeepSeekNVIDIANVIDIA
OpenTools Score
45
69.6
6
12.0
FamilyDeepSeek V4Nemotron
StatusCurrentCurrent
Release DateAug 2026Aug 2026
Context Window1.0M tokens1.0M tokens
Input Price$0.43/M tokens$0.10/M tokens
Output Price$0.87/M tokens$0.95/M tokens
Pricing NotesDeepSeek API pricing currently lists $0.003625 cache-hit input, $0.435 cache-miss input, and $0.87 output per 1M tokens for deepseek-v4-pro. DeepSeek announced peak/off-peak pricing effective August 16, 2026, with off-peak prices at half the peak rate.NVIDIA build lists serverless NIM pricing at $0.10 input and $0.95 output per million tokens. Self-hosted weights are also available; infrastructure costs vary.
Capabilities
reasoningcodingtool-usestructured-outputlong-contextagenticresponses-api
textreasoningcodingtool-usefunction-callinglong-contextagenticlocal-deploymentopen-weights
Training Cutoff—May 2026 post-training; September 2025 pre-training
Max Output393K tokens33K tokens
API Identifierdeepseek-v4-pronvidia/nemotron-3.5-lightning-30b-a3b
Benchmarks
Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.1
44artificial-analysis
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Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.1.1
53artificial-analysis
24artificial-analysis
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ModelInputOutputTotal / movs Best
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3BCheapest$0.10$0.48$0.58—
DeepSeek V4 Pro$0.44$0.44$0.87+51%

DeepSeek

DeepSeek V4 Pro

DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 is an open-weight Mixture-of-Experts reasoning model for long-context coding, tool use, and agentic workloads, with native Responses API support through the DeepSeek API.

NVIDIA

Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B

Nemotron 3.5 Lightning is NVIDIA open-weight 30B-A3B reasoning model for fast, long-running agents. Its hybrid Mamba-2, mixture-of-experts, and attention architecture supports function calling, coding, tool use, long context, and efficient local or serverless deployment.

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