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Data as of · 78 models, 80 questions · reviewed by Suhas Bhairav · methodology

Head to head · tested 27 Oct 2026

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite vs Nemotron 3.5 Super VL: accuracy, speed and price

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite is more accurate; Nemotron 3.5 Super VL is cheaper.

GoogleGemini 3.5 Flash Lite75.0% score · #15$0.0034 per question409 tok/sNVIDIANemotron 3.5 Super VL40.0% score · #58$0.0013 per question715 tok/s

Verdict

Built from the measurements below

  • Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite is more accurate: 75.0% against 40.0% on the same 80 questions, a 35.0-point gap that is statistically significant.
  • Nemotron 3.5 Super VL is 2.7× cheaper per question as billed ($0.0013 vs $0.0034), reasoning tokens included.
  • Nemotron 3.5 Super VL generates text 1.7× faster: 715 tokens per second against 409.
  • Nemotron 3.5 Super VL starts answering sooner: 0.6 s to the first token, against 1.1 s for Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite.

Which should you choose?

Choose Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite for the most accurate answers of the two and shorter outputs (about 1,311 tokens per question against 2,771). Choose Nemotron 3.5 Super VL for the lower cost per correct answer ($0.0032 against $0.0045), faster streaming, a quicker first token, open weights you can run yourself and more hosts to choose from on OpenRouter (9 against 2). The widest subject gap is in law: Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite answered 4 of 6 correctly, Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 0 of 6. With so few questions per subject, treat this as a lead to test on your own prompts, not a result.

Accuracy gap +35.0 points (z = 4.48). A winner is called only when z is at least 1.96, the usual 95% threshold. Speed, latency and price need a 10% margin.

Head to head

Same questions, same prompt, same API

MeasureGemini 3.5 Flash LiteNemotron 3.5 Super VLEdge
Verification scoreHigher is better75.0%40.0%Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite
Cost per questionLower is better$0.0034$0.0013Nemotron 3.5 Super VL
Output speedHigher is better409715Nemotron 3.5 Super VL
Time to first tokenLower is better1.1 s0.6 sNemotron 3.5 Super VL
End-to-end response timeLower is better2.8 s1.5 sNemotron 3.5 Super VL
Tokens per questionLower is better1,3112,771Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite
Context windowHigher is better1M1MSimilar

Side by side

Bars are scaled to the larger of the two values. The winner on each measure is marked in bold.

Every measure

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite first, Nemotron 3.5 Super VL second

Verification scorehigher is better
Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite75.0%
Nemotron 3.5 Super VL40.0%
Cost per questionlower is better
Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite$0.0034
Nemotron 3.5 Super VL$0.0013
Output speedhigher is better
Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite409
Nemotron 3.5 Super VL715
Time to first tokenlower is better
Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite1.1 s
Nemotron 3.5 Super VL0.6 s
End-to-end response timelower is better
Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite2.8 s
Nemotron 3.5 Super VL1.5 s
Tokens per questionlower is better
Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite1,311
Nemotron 3.5 Super VL2,771
Context windowhigher is better
Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite1M
Nemotron 3.5 Super VL1M

Score vs. cost per question

Both models in color, every other model in grey

Most attractive quadrant0255075100$0.00001$0.0001$0.001$0.01$0.10Cost per question (USD, log) →Verification score (%) →Qwen3.8 2.4T A95BCommand AReka Flash 3Gemma 4 26B A4BGemma 4 31BQwen3.5 397B A17BHermes 4 405BMuse WonderGrok 4.7o3gpt-oss-20bMinistral 3 3B 2512Nova Micro 1.0Phi 4Granite 4.2 8BHy3GLM 5.3 FlashSolar Pro 4Trinity Large ThinkingMiniMax M3Mistral Large 4Claude Opus 5.5GPT-6.1 SolGemini 4 ArgonGPT-5.4GPT-6 Lunagpt-oss-120bLlama 4 Maverick

Specifications and pricing

From OpenRouter's catalogue, plus the leaderboard's test dates

SpecificationGemini 3.5 Flash LiteNemotron 3.5 Super VL
CreatorGoogleNVIDIA
Released21 Jul 202615 Oct 2026
Weights—Open weights
ReasoningYesYes
Inputtext, image, video, file, audiotext, image, video
Outputtexttext
Context window1M tokens1M tokens
Knowledge cutoff——
List price in / out per 1M$0.3 / $2.5$0.15 / $0.5
Blended price per 1M (3:1)$0.85$0.24
Cheapest hostGoogle · $0.15 / $1.25Darkbloom · $0.06 / $0.35
Hosts on OpenRouter29
Last tested26 Oct 202627 Oct 2026

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Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite vs Nemotron 3.5 Super VL: frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite better than Nemotron 3.5 Super VL?
Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite is more accurate: it answered 60 of 80 questions correctly (75.0%) against 32 of 80 (40.0%) for Nemotron 3.5 Super VL. Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite is more accurate; Nemotron 3.5 Super VL is cheaper.
Which is cheaper, Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite or Nemotron 3.5 Super VL?
Nemotron 3.5 Super VL is cheaper: $0.0013 per question as billed, against $0.0034. List prices: Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite $0.3 in / $2.5 out, Nemotron 3.5 Super VL $0.15 in / $0.5 out per million tokens.
Which is faster, Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite or Nemotron 3.5 Super VL?
Nemotron 3.5 Super VL is faster at 715 output tokens per second, against 409. Time to first token: 1.1 s for Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite, 0.6 s for Nemotron 3.5 Super VL.
Which has the larger context window, Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite or Nemotron 3.5 Super VL?
Both accept about the same amount of context: 1M and 1M tokens.