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DeepSeek V4 Pro vs Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B

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

Price vs Intelligence

594531173$0.37$1.13$1.90$2.67$3.43Avg Price per M tokensIntelligenceDeepSeek V4 Pro49.3 / $2.64Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B13.4 / $0.53

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 DeepSeekDeepSeek V4 ProNVIDIANemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B
OrganizationDeepSeekDeepSeekNVIDIANVIDIA
OpenTools Score
49
18.7
13
25.5
FamilyDeepSeek V4Nemotron
StatusCurrentCurrent
Release DateAug 2026Aug 2026
Context Window1.0M tokens1.0M tokens
Input Price$1.32/M tokens$0.10/M tokens
Output Price$3.96/M tokens$0.95/M tokens
Pricing NotesDeepSeek direct API, DeepSeek-V4-Pro-0813: headline prices are peak uncached input $1.32 and output $3.96 per million tokens. Off-peak input is $0.66 and output $1.98; cache-hit input is $0.044 peak/$0.022 off-peak. Peak hours are 01:00-04:00 and 06:00-10:00 UTC Monday-Friday; all other hours are off-peak. DeepSeek has withdrawn the planned September 14, 2026 retirement and continues this API. Rates are conditional, not an unconditional off-peak offer.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
Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.3
36.2829artificial-analysis
14https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/nemotron-3-5-lightning
GPQA Diamond
92.8283artificial-analysis
74.3434artificial-analysis
SciCode
51.0417artificial-analysis
32.0602artificial-analysis
Terminal-Bench 2.1
78.6517artificial-analysis
24.3446artificial-analysis
Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.3.2
20.3605101726847artificial-analysis
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ModelInputOutputTotal / movs Best
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3BCheapest$0.10$0.48$0.58—
DeepSeek V4 Pro$1.32$1.98$3.30+474%

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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