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Claude Fable 5.1 vs Nemotron 3.5 Lightning

For a typical chat reply (2,000 tokens in, 400 out), Claude Fable 5.1 costs 167× as much as Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: $40.00 against $0.24 per 1,000 requests at list price on 2026-09-28.

Claude Fable 5.1Nemotron 3.5 Lightning
Input, per 1M tokens$10.00$0.08
Output, per 1M tokens$50.00$0.20
Context window1M1M
Classification or routing (600 tokens in, 10 out), per 1,000$6.50$0.05
Chat reply (2,000 in, 400 out), per 1,000$40.00$0.24
Retrieval-augmented answer (8,000 in, 500 out), per 1,000$105$0.74
Confidence signalnoyes
Tool callingyesyes
BANKING77, correct of 400not measured255

Which one should carry your traffic?

If Nemotron 3.5 Lightning answers your requests as well as Claude Fable 5.1, moving that traffic saves 99% on chat-shaped requests. Averages cannot tell you whether it does for your requests. Nemotron 3.5 Lightning exposes a confidence signal, so Gimbix can let it answer first and hand unsure cases to Claude Fable 5.1.

Claude Fable 5.1 profile · Nemotron 3.5 Lightning profile · Measure it on your traffic