Jamba Large 1.7 is the latest model in the Jamba open family, offering improvements in grounding, instruction-following, and overall efficiency. Built on a hybrid SSM-Transformer architecture with a 256K context window, it delivers more acc…
Model details →AI21: Jamba Large 1.7 vs NVIDIA: Nemotron Nano 12B 2 VL
NVIDIA: Nemotron Nano 12B 2 VL wins on 4 of 6 axes — pricing and capability skew in its favour for most workloads.
NVIDIA Nemotron Nano 2 VL is a 12-billion-parameter open multimodal reasoning model designed for video understanding and document intelligence. It introduces a hybrid Transformer-Mamba architecture, combining transformer-level accuracy with…
Model details →Side-by-side comparison
| Capability | AI21: Jamba Large 1.7 | NVIDIA: Nemotron Nano 12B 2 VL | Winner |
|---|---|---|---|
| Context window Maximum number of input tokens the model can attend to in a single request. | 256K | 131K | 🏆 AI21: Jamba Large 1.7 |
| Input price (per 1M) Cost per million input tokens billed by the provider. | $2.00 | $0.20 | 🏆 NVIDIA: Nemotron Nano 12B 2 VL |
| Output price (per 1M) Cost per million output tokens billed by the provider. | $8.00 | $0.60 | 🏆 NVIDIA: Nemotron Nano 12B 2 VL |
| Tool / function calling First-class support for emitting structured tool calls. | Yes | — | 🏆 AI21: Jamba Large 1.7 |
| Vision input Accepts image inputs alongside text. | — | Yes | 🏆 NVIDIA: Nemotron Nano 12B 2 VL |
| Reasoning mode Internal chain-of-thought / extended-thinking support. | — | Yes | 🏆 NVIDIA: Nemotron Nano 12B 2 VL |
Frequently asked questions
Is AI21: Jamba Large 1.7 better than NVIDIA: Nemotron Nano 12B 2 VL?
NVIDIA: Nemotron Nano 12B 2 VL wins on 4 of 6 axes — pricing and capability skew in its favour for most workloads.
What's the price difference between AI21: Jamba Large 1.7 and NVIDIA: Nemotron Nano 12B 2 VL?
Input: $2.00 vs $0.20 per 1M tokens. Output: $8.00 vs $0.60 per 1M tokens.
What context windows do AI21: Jamba Large 1.7 and NVIDIA: Nemotron Nano 12B 2 VL support?
AI21: Jamba Large 1.7 supports up to 256K tokens. NVIDIA: Nemotron Nano 12B 2 VL supports up to 131K tokens.
Do both AI21: Jamba Large 1.7 and NVIDIA: Nemotron Nano 12B 2 VL support tool calling?
AI21: Jamba Large 1.7: yes. NVIDIA: Nemotron Nano 12B 2 VL: not advertised.