As of August 20, 2026, Laguna S 2.1 is 44% cheaper per million tokens than Nemotron 3 Super (120B A12B). Laguna S 2.1 is $0.10 / $0.20 per million input/output tokens versus Nemotron 3 Super (120B A12B) at $0.09 / $0.45. Sources: https://poolside.ai and https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/models
Sources: Poolside pricing (https://poolside.ai); OpenRouter pricing (https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/models)
Laguna S 2.1
Poolside
Input
$0.10
Output
$0.20
Nemotron 3 Super (120B A12B)
NVIDIA
Input
$0.09
Output
$0.45
Token pricing, specs, and benchmarks side by side
Laguna S 2.1Nemotron 3 Super (120B A12B)Verdict
Laguna S 2.1 offers both lower pricing and stronger benchmark performance across the board, making it the clear value leader in this comparison.
As of August 20, 2026, Laguna S 2.1 is 44% cheaper on blended LLM API pricing. Laguna S 2.1 costs $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.20 per million output tokens ($0.30 blended 1M-in + 1M-out). Nemotron 3 Super (120B A12B) costs $0.09 / $0.45 per million tokens ($0.54 blended). Sources: https://poolside.ai and https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/models. The cheapest LLM for your app still depends on how many output tokens you generate.
Laguna S 2.1 Poolside API pricing is $0.10 input and $0.20 output per million tokens via Poolside. 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.
Nemotron 3 Super (120B A12B) has a published SWE-bench Verified score of 53.7%. Laguna S 2.1 does not have that eval on this page yet.
Laguna S 2.1 supports a 1M token context window, while Nemotron 3 Super (120B A12B) supports 1M tokens. Laguna S 2.1 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.
Laguna S 2.1 leads on 1 of 1 shared benchmarks versus Nemotron 3 Super (120B A12B)'s 0 wins. 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.
Both Laguna S 2.1 and Nemotron 3 Super (120B A12B) are production API models. For cost-sensitive production traffic, Laguna S 2.1 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.
Yes. Call Laguna S 2.1 through Poolside 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.
List rates are the latest published Poolside API pricing and OpenRouter API pricing, quoted per million tokens. Official rate sheets: https://poolside.ai 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.
Laguna S 2.1 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.
Neither Laguna S 2.1 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.
Use the model pickers at the top of this LLM comparison. Search any model in the index and the URL updates. Open Laguna S 2.1 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.
This comparison covers API pricing, context window, throughput, and benchmark scores. Laguna S 2.1 costs $0.10/M input and $0.20/M output. Nemotron 3 Super (120B A12B) costs $0.09/M input and $0.45/M output via OpenRouter.
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