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Kimi K3 vs Nemotron 3.5 Lightning

For a typical chat reply (2,000 tokens in, 400 out), Kimi K3 costs 50× as much as Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: $12.00 against $0.24 per 1,000 requests at list price on 2026-09-28.

Kimi K3Nemotron 3.5 Lightning
Input, per 1M tokens$3.00$0.08
Output, per 1M tokens$15.00$0.20
Context window1.05M1M
Classification or routing (600 tokens in, 10 out), per 1,000$1.95$0.05
Chat reply (2,000 in, 400 out), per 1,000$12.00$0.24
Retrieval-augmented answer (8,000 in, 500 out), per 1,000$31.50$0.74
Confidence signalyesyes
Tool callingyesyes
BANKING77, correct of 400not measured255

Which one should carry your traffic?

If Nemotron 3.5 Lightning answers your requests as well as Kimi K3, moving that traffic saves 98% 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 Kimi K3.

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