Which is cheaper, Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (30B A3B) or o1-pro?
As of August 20, 2026, Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (30B A3B) is 100% cheaper on blended LLM API pricing. Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (30B A3B) costs $0.05 per million input tokens and $0.20 per million output tokens ($0.25 blended 1M-in + 1M-out). o1-pro costs $150.00 / $600.00 per million tokens ($750.00 blended). Sources: https://build.nvidia.com and https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/pricing. The cheapest LLM for your app still depends on how many output tokens you generate.
How much does Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (30B A3B) vs o1-pro cost per million tokens?
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (30B A3B) NVIDIA API pricing is $0.05 input and $0.20 output per million tokens via NVIDIA. o1-pro OpenAI API pricing is $150.00 input and $600.00 output per million tokens via OpenAI. Use those four numbers, not ChatGPT Plus or Claude Pro subscription prices, when you are comparing APIs.
Which is better for coding, Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (30B A3B) or o1-pro?
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (30B A3B) has a published SWE-bench Verified score of 51.6%. o1-pro does not have that eval on this page yet.
What is the context window for Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (30B A3B) vs o1-pro?
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (30B A3B) supports a 262K token context window, while o1-pro supports 200K tokens. Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (30B A3B) 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, Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (30B A3B) or o1-pro?
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (30B A3B) and o1-pro are tied across 2 shared benchmarks. Check the table for category-level strengths. 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 Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (30B A3B) or o1-pro better for production use?
Both Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (30B A3B) and o1-pro are production API models. For cost-sensitive production traffic, Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (30B A3B) 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 Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (30B A3B) and o1-pro in my app?
Yes. Call Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (30B A3B) through NVIDIA and o1-pro through OpenAI 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 Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (30B A3B) vs o1-pro pricing data?
List rates are the latest published NVIDIA API pricing and OpenAI API pricing, quoted per million tokens. Official rate sheets: https://build.nvidia.com and https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/pricing. 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 Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (30B A3B) and o1-pro?
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (30B A3B) supports up to 262K output tokens per request, while o1-pro supports up to 100K 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, Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (30B A3B) or o1-pro?
Neither Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (30B A3B) nor o1-pro 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 Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (30B A3B) vs o1-pro comparison?
Use the model pickers at the top of this LLM comparison. Search any model in the index and the URL updates. Open Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (30B A3B) or o1-pro from the sidebar for the single-model API pricing page, or go back to the LLM pricing table to sort by cheapest blended cost.
