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Nova Micro 1.0 vs Nemotron 3.5 Lightning

For a typical chat reply (2,000 tokens in, 400 out), Nemotron 3.5 Lightning costs 1.9× as much as Nova Micro 1.0: $0.24 against $0.126 per 1,000 requests at list price on 2026-09-28.

Nova Micro 1.0Nemotron 3.5 Lightning
Input, per 1M tokens$0.035$0.08
Output, per 1M tokens$0.14$0.20
Context window128K1M
Classification or routing (600 tokens in, 10 out), per 1,000$0.0224$0.05
Chat reply (2,000 in, 400 out), per 1,000$0.126$0.24
Retrieval-augmented answer (8,000 in, 500 out), per 1,000$0.35$0.74
Confidence signalnoyes
Tool callingyesyes
BANKING77, correct of 400not measured255

Which one should carry your traffic?

If Nova Micro 1.0 answers your requests as well as Nemotron 3.5 Lightning, moving that traffic saves 48% on chat-shaped requests. Averages cannot tell you whether it does for your requests. Nova Micro 1.0 does not expose a confidence signal through OpenRouter, so Gimbix would test it as a full replacement rather than a first answer.

Nova Micro 1.0 profile · Nemotron 3.5 Lightning profile · Measure it on your traffic