NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Super VL

nvidia · Released Oct 15, 2026 NEW
DFO score #76 / 706
43.7 leaderboard score
Speed
354 tok/s · best OpenRouter provider
Input Price #302 / 706
$0.150 per 1M tokens
Output Price #308 / 706
$0.500 per 1M tokens
Context #35 / 706
1M tokens

Analysis Summary

NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Super VL comes from NVIDIA. It launched in October 2026, making it a current-generation release. We place it in the Efficient tier, where it sits at #76 of 706 models overall. For raw reasoning ability it ranks #76 of 439, putting it in the top quartile for overall intelligence.

Its 1M-token context window is larger than 95% of the models we list, suiting long documents, large codebases, and retrieval-heavy workloads. Crucially for business adoption, NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Super VL combines tool use, function calling, vision input, and step-by-step reasoning in a single model, letting teams consolidate several use cases instead of stitching together multiple services.

At $0.150 input and $0.500 output per 1M tokens, NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Super VL is aggressively priced for high-volume use which makes it easy to justify for cost-sensitive, high-throughput deployments. NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Super VL suits cost-sensitive or high-volume deployments where efficiency matters more than topping the benchmarks.

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DFO Verdict

NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Super VL currently sits at #76 of 706 models on our board. We class it as a efficient-tier model.

#76 of 706 overall

Benchmarks

Intelligence Index 26.5 #76 of 439 · Artificial Analysis
Coding Index Not published yet Artificial Analysis
Agentic Index Not published yet Artificial Analysis
Creative Writing Not rated Arena rating
Instruction Following Not rated Arena rating

Artificial Analysis data refreshed Oct 15, 2026. Arena ratings from the Oct 13, 2026 text leaderboard, with style control.

Artificial Analysis has not published coding or agentic results for NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Super VL yet. Until it does, the model sits below tested models on the Coding and AI Agents lists.

This model was released recently. Benchmark figures are preliminary and are likely to be updated as independent testing is finalised.

How NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Super VL compares

NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Super VL ranks #76 of 439 AI models we track for overall intelligence. Its 1M-token context window is larger than 95% of the models we list. At $0.15 per million input tokens it is cheaper than 57% of comparable models.

Position in the field
DFO score: ahead of 89% of models #76
Price: cheaper than 57% of models #302
Context: larger than 95% of models #35
worst in fieldmedianbest in field
Price vs frontier peers · $ per 1M tokens
NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Super VL $0.15 in $0.50 out
Anthropic: Claude Opus 5.5 $4.00 in $20.00 out
Google: Gemini 4 Argon $2.00 in $10.00 out
Anthropic: Claude Fable 5.1 $10.00 in $50.00 out

Dark bar = input · light bar = output, scaled to the priciest peer.

Context window vs peers · tokens

1M tokens ≈ 8 full-length novels or ~2,500 pages of business documents in a single request.

Pricing

Token Type Cost per 1M tokens Cost per 1K tokens
Input $0.15 $0.000150
Output $0.50 $0.000500

What would NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Super VL cost your business?

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A website chatbot handling around 100 customer conversations a day, a few short messages each.

3,000
One request is one message, email, draft or automation call.
1,200 tokens

$0.918/mo NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Super VL $0.0003 per request
$31.68/mo Anthropic: Claude Opus 5.5 $0.01 per request
$7.92/mo Google: Gemini 4 Argon (batch) · best value $0.0026 per request

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About NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Super VL

NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Super VL is an open multimodal mixture-of-experts model from NVIDIA, with 12B active parameters out of 120B total. It takes text, images, documents, GUI screenshots, and video..

Frequently asked questions about NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Super VL

How much does NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Super VL cost?

NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Super VL costs $0.15 per million input tokens and $0.50 per million output tokens.

What is the context window of NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Super VL?

NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Super VL has a context window of 1,048,576 tokens (1M).

What can NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Super VL do?

NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Super VL supports image/vision input, tool use, and function calling.

Who created NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Super VL?

NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Super VL is developed by NVIDIA and was released on October 15, 2026.

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