Compare AI models: Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B vs Step 5 Preview

Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3BNVIDIAHollow points use fallbacks · hover for details
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ReasoningCodingCost efficiencyContext windowMultimodalTool use

Normalized model capability scores
Model	Reasoning	Coding	Cost efficiency	Context window	Multimodal	Tool use
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B	0/100	37/100	85/100	62/100	0/100	50/100 — Tool calling supported; no comparable benchmark
Step 5 Preview	50/100 — Reasoning supported; no comparable benchmark	50/100 — No data; neutral placeholder	41/100	81/100	50/100	50/100 — Tool calling supported; no comparable benchmark

Overview

Author

Context length

262K

Reasoning

True

Input modalities

Text

Text, Image, Video

Output modalities

Text

Providers

Pricing

Input

$0.05/ 1M

$0.96/ 1M

Output

$0.20/ 1M

$2.74/ 1M

Cached input

$0.01/ 1M

$0.05/ 1M

MomentumLast 2 mo

Unique users

284K

17K

Completed sessions

6,245,713

455,886

Token share

0.47%

0.14%

Tokens

4.6T+1,396%

1.3T+100%

AUG 15OCT 9

RetentionWeek 1

Returning users

Pending

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