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Llama 4 Maverick vs Nemotron 3.5 Lightning

For a typical chat reply (2,000 tokens in, 400 out), Llama 4 Maverick costs 2.7× as much as Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: $0.636 against $0.24 per 1,000 requests at list price on 2026-09-28.

Llama 4 MaverickNemotron 3.5 Lightning
Input, per 1M tokens$0.188$0.08
Output, per 1M tokens$0.652$0.20
Context window1.05M1M
Classification or routing (600 tokens in, 10 out), per 1,000$0.119$0.05
Chat reply (2,000 in, 400 out), per 1,000$0.636$0.24
Retrieval-augmented answer (8,000 in, 500 out), per 1,000$1.83$0.74
Confidence signalyesyes
Tool callingyesyes
BANKING77, correct of 400294255

Which one should carry your traffic?

If Nemotron 3.5 Lightning answers your requests as well as Llama 4 Maverick, moving that traffic saves 62% 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 Llama 4 Maverick.

Llama 4 Maverick profile · Nemotron 3.5 Lightning profile · Measure it on your traffic