Neither wins outright: Google: Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite (batch) is the pick when you need audio input, NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Super VL when cost matters at scale.
| Spec | Google: Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite (batch) | NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Super VL |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Nvidia | |
| Input price (per 1M tokens) | $0.13 | $0.15 |
| Output price (per 1M tokens) | $0.75 | $0.50 |
| Blended price (3:1 input/output) | $0.28 | $0.24 |
| Cheaper than … of all models we track | 64% | 67% |
| Context window | 1.0M tokens (~1,573 pages) | 1.0M tokens (~1,573 pages) |
| Larger context than … of all models | 81% | 81% |
| Max output per response | 66K tokens (~49,200 words) | 236K tokens (~176,900 words) |
| Input types | text, image, video, file, audio | text, image, video |
| Output types | text | text |
| Free variant | No | Yes |
| Listed since | 2026-05-07 | 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 3.1 Flash Lite (batch) | NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Super VL | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Customer-support chatbot 50,000 conversations — each a 6-turn conversation (1,500 in / 400 out tokens) | $24.38 | $21.25 | NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Super VL saves $3.13 |
| RAG search over documents 20,000 questions — each a question answered from ~8 retrieved passages (6,000 in / 500 out tokens) | $22.50 | $23.00 | Google: Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite (batch) saves $0.50 |
| 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) | $24.00 | $24.00 | — |
| Batch summarisation 10,000 documents — each a 6,000-word report summarised to a page (8,000 in / 600 out tokens) | $14.50 | $15.00 | Google: Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite (batch) saves $0.50 |
| Long-document analysis 500 documents — each a 150-page contract or codebase read in one pass (100,000 in / 2,000 out tokens) | $7.00 | $8.00 | Google: Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite (batch) saves $1.00 |
| Capability | Google: Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite (batch) | NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Super VL | 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 | — | ✓ Yes | 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 3.1 Flash Lite (batch) is the pick when you need audio input, NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Super VL when cost matters at scale. In short: Google: Gemini 3.1 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 when cost matters at scale, you need log-probabilities, 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 is cheaper: $0.24 vs $0.28 per 1M tokens at a typical 3:1 input/output mix, 16% less. For 50,000 support conversations a month that is $21.25 against $24.38.
Google: Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite (batch) costs $0.13 per 1M input tokens and $0.75 per 1M output tokens; NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Super VL costs $0.15 input and $0.50 output. Output tokens are billed separately, so long answers shift the gap.
Both take 1.0M tokens per request — roughly 1,573 pages of text.
Tool calling — Google: Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite (batch): yes, NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Super VL: yes. JSON-schema structured output — Google: Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite (batch): yes, NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Super VL: yes.
Yes, both accept image input.
NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Super VL has a free variant (nvidia/nemotron-3.5-super-vl:free). Free variants usually carry tighter rate limits.
Google: Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite (batch) can write up to 66K tokens (about 49,200 words) per response; NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Super VL up to 236K (about 176,900 words).
Google: Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite (batch) was listed on 2026-05-07; NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Super VL on 2026-10-15.
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