Neither wins outright: Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite (batch) is the pick when you need audio input, NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Super VL (free) when cost matters at scale.
| Spec | Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite (batch) | NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Super VL (free) |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Nvidia | |
| Input price (per 1M tokens) | $0.05 | $0 |
| Output price (per 1M tokens) | $0.20 | $0 |
| Blended price (3:1 input/output) | $0.09 | $0 |
| Cheaper than … of all models we track | 82% | 90% |
| Context window | 1.0M tokens (~1,573 pages) | 1M tokens (~1,500 pages) |
| Larger context than … of all models | 81% | 69% |
| Max output per response | 66K tokens (~49,200 words) | 131K tokens (~98,300 words) |
| Input types | text, image, file, audio, video | text, image, video |
| Output types | text | text |
| Free variant | No | Yes |
| Listed since | 2025-07-22 | 2026-10-15 |
Monthly cost at list price for five common workloads. Token counts per unit are stated so you can scale them to your own traffic. A workload that does not fit a model's context window is marked rather than priced.
| Workload (per month) | Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite (batch) | NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Super VL (free) | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Customer-support chatbot 50,000 conversations — each a 6-turn conversation (1,500 in / 400 out tokens) | $7.75 | $0 | NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Super VL (free) saves $7.75 |
| RAG search over documents 20,000 questions — each a question answered from ~8 retrieved passages (6,000 in / 500 out tokens) | $8.00 | $0 | NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Super VL (free) saves $8.00 |
| Coding / tool-using agent 2,000 tasks — each a multi-step task with tool calls and file context (60,000 in / 6,000 out tokens) | $8.40 | $0 | NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Super VL (free) saves $8.40 |
| Batch summarisation 10,000 documents — each a 6,000-word report summarised to a page (8,000 in / 600 out tokens) | $5.20 | $0 | NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Super VL (free) saves $5.20 |
| Long-document analysis 500 documents — each a 150-page contract or codebase read in one pass (100,000 in / 2,000 out tokens) | $2.70 | $0 | NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Super VL (free) saves $2.70 |
| Capability | Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite (batch) | NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Super VL (free) | What it lets you do |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tool / function calling | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes | call your APIs and run agent loops |
| Structured output (JSON schema) | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes | return JSON that validates against your schema |
| Reasoning / thinking mode | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes | spend extra tokens thinking before answering hard problems |
| Image input | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes | read screenshots, charts and scanned pages |
| Audio input | ✓ Yes | — | take speech or audio directly |
| File / PDF input | ✓ Yes | — | accept documents without your own parsing step |
| Image output | — | — | generate images, not just text |
| Built-in web search | ✓ Yes | — | answer from live web results |
| Seed (reproducible sampling) | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes | repeat a generation for tests and evals |
| Log-probabilities | — | — | read token confidence for classification and scoring |
From each model's published parameters and input/output types. “—” means not advertised, not proven absent.
Neither wins outright: Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite (batch) is the pick when you need audio input, NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Super VL (free) when cost matters at scale. In short: Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite (batch) when you need audio input, you need file / PDF input, you need built-in web search; NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Super VL (free) when cost matters at scale, you generate long outputs in one go, you want to prototype at zero cost, you want the newer model.
NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Super VL (free) is cheaper: $0 vs $0.09 per 1M tokens at a typical 3:1 input/output mix, 100% less. For 50,000 support conversations a month that is $0 against $7.75.
Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite (batch) costs $0.05 per 1M input tokens and $0.20 per 1M output tokens; NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Super VL (free) costs $0 input and $0 output. Output tokens are billed separately, so long answers shift the gap.
Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite (batch): 1.0M tokens, about 1,573 pages, against 1M (about 1,500 pages) for NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Super VL (free).
Tool calling — Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite (batch): yes, NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Super VL (free): yes. JSON-schema structured output — Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite (batch): yes, NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Super VL (free): yes.
Yes, both accept image input.
NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Super VL (free) has a free variant (nvidia/nemotron-3.5-super-vl:free). Free variants usually carry tighter rate limits.
Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite (batch) can write up to 66K tokens (about 49,200 words) per response; NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Super VL (free) up to 131K (about 98,300 words).
Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite (batch) was listed on 2025-07-22; NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Super VL (free) on 2026-10-15.
Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite is a lightweight reasoning model in the Gemini 2.5 family, optimized for ultra-low latency and cost efficiency. It offers improved throughput, faster token generation, and better performance...
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