Which is cheaper, IBM Granite 4.0 Tiny Preview or Nemotron 3 Super (120B A12B)?
As of August 30, 2026, IBM Granite 4.0 Tiny Preview is 76% cheaper on blended LLM API pricing. IBM Granite 4.0 Tiny Preview costs $0.02 per million input tokens and $0.11 per million output tokens ($0.13 blended 1M-in + 1M-out). Nemotron 3 Super (120B A12B) costs $0.09 / $0.45 per million tokens ($0.54 blended). Sources: https://openrouter.ai/ibm-granite/granite-4.0-h-micro and https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/models. The cheapest LLM for your app still depends on how many output tokens you generate.
How much does IBM Granite 4.0 Tiny Preview vs Nemotron 3 Super (120B A12B) cost per million tokens?
IBM Granite 4.0 Tiny Preview OpenRouter API pricing is $0.02 input and $0.11 output per million tokens via OpenRouter. Nemotron 3 Super (120B A12B) OpenRouter API pricing is $0.09 input and $0.45 output per million tokens via OpenRouter. Use those four numbers, not ChatGPT Plus or Claude Pro subscription prices, when you are comparing APIs.
Which is better for coding, IBM Granite 4.0 Tiny Preview or Nemotron 3 Super (120B A12B)?
Nemotron 3 Super (120B A12B) has a published SWE-bench Verified score of 53.7%. IBM Granite 4.0 Tiny Preview does not have that eval on this page yet.
What is the context window for IBM Granite 4.0 Tiny Preview vs Nemotron 3 Super (120B A12B)?
IBM Granite 4.0 Tiny Preview supports a 131K token context window, while Nemotron 3 Super (120B A12B) supports 1M tokens. Nemotron 3 Super (120B A12B) offers a larger context window. Filling a larger window bills more input tokens, so the cheaper-per-million model can still cost more on long documents.
Which model performs better on benchmarks, IBM Granite 4.0 Tiny Preview or Nemotron 3 Super (120B A12B)?
Shared benchmark scores for IBM Granite 4.0 Tiny Preview and Nemotron 3 Super (120B A12B) are still limited. Check the comparison table for the evals each model has published. Check the comparison table for GPQA Diamond, SWE-bench, MMLU, HLE, and the other evals we track. Token price and benchmark score together are the usual LLM comparison, not either number alone.
Is IBM Granite 4.0 Tiny Preview or Nemotron 3 Super (120B A12B) better for production use?
Both IBM Granite 4.0 Tiny Preview and Nemotron 3 Super (120B A12B) are production API models. For cost-sensitive production traffic, IBM Granite 4.0 Tiny Preview has better economics on the blended 1M-in + 1M-out scale. For maximum capability, weight the benchmark table for your domain. Many production stacks route cheap models for drafts and a frontier model for the hard turn, which is usually cheaper than sending everything to the expensive API.
Can I switch between IBM Granite 4.0 Tiny Preview and Nemotron 3 Super (120B A12B) in my app?
Yes. Call IBM Granite 4.0 Tiny Preview through OpenRouter and Nemotron 3 Super (120B A12B) through OpenRouter with separate API keys, or through a gateway that already wraps both. Keep prompts in tokens, not characters, when you estimate the invoice. AnotherWrapper templates can swap providers without rewriting auth and billing.
How accurate is this IBM Granite 4.0 Tiny Preview vs Nemotron 3 Super (120B A12B) pricing data?
List rates are the latest published OpenRouter API pricing and OpenRouter API pricing, quoted per million tokens. Official rate sheets: https://openrouter.ai/ibm-granite/granite-4.0-h-micro and https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/models. Prompt caching, batch APIs, and committed-use discounts can change the invoice. Benchmark scores are from official publications and independent evals, updated as new numbers land.
What is the output token limit for IBM Granite 4.0 Tiny Preview and Nemotron 3 Super (120B A12B)?
IBM Granite 4.0 Tiny Preview supports up to an unspecified number of output tokens per request, while Nemotron 3 Super (120B A12B) supports up to 262K output tokens. Output tokens are usually the expensive half of API pricing, so a higher max output cap is a capability, not a discount.
Which model has better throughput, IBM Granite 4.0 Tiny Preview or Nemotron 3 Super (120B A12B)?
Neither IBM Granite 4.0 Tiny Preview nor Nemotron 3 Super (120B A12B) has published throughput data on this page yet. Throughput (tokens per second) and time-to-first-token are why two models with the same per-million-token price can still feel different in chat and agents.
How do I switch the models in this IBM Granite 4.0 Tiny Preview vs Nemotron 3 Super (120B A12B) comparison?
Use the model pickers at the top of this LLM comparison. Search any model in the index and the URL updates. Open IBM Granite 4.0 Tiny Preview or Nemotron 3 Super (120B A12B) from the sidebar for the single-model API pricing page, or go back to the LLM pricing table to sort by cheapest blended cost.
