Nemotron 3.5 LightningvsGPT-5 mini
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning | GPT-5 mini | |
|---|---|---|
| Specifications | ||
ParametersA rough measure of how big the model is. More parameters usually means more capable and more expensive to run, though it is a poor guide on its own — a smaller, newer model often beats a larger, older one. | 30B | — |
Context windowHow much text the model can hold in mind at once — your question, any documents you attach, the conversation so far, and its own reply. Go past it and the earliest part falls out of view. | 1M | — |
| API pricingUSD per 1M tokens · lower wins | ||
Input priceWhat you pay for everything you send the model — your question, plus any documents or earlier conversation you include with it. | — | $0.25 |
Output priceWhat you pay for the text the model writes back. It is normally the dearer half: producing an answer costs more than reading one. | — | $2.00 |
Cached input priceA reduced rate for text you send over and over. If every request starts with the same instructions or the same document, the provider keeps a copy ready and charges less to read it again. | — | $0.025 |
Cheapest inputLowest input rate across third-party providers, excluding the lab itself. The cheapest endpoint may run a quantised build or a shorter context — see "Available from" on the model page. | $0.08DeepInfra | $0.25Azure |
Cheapest outputLowest output rate across third-party providers, excluding the lab itself. May come from a different provider than the cheapest input. | $0.20DeepInfra | $2.00Azure |
| BenchmarksPublished by one model only | ||
SWE-Bench VerifiedCoding — Real coding tasks pulled from open-source projects — the AI has to find and fix actual bugs. A human-checked version of the original SWE-Bench. Higher is better. | 51.6% | — |
GPQA DiamondScience — Graduate-level science questions in biology, physics, and chemistry — hard enough that subject-matter PhDs score around 65%. Higher is better. | 75.4% | — |
| Overview | ||
| Company | NVIDIA | OpenAI |
| Release date | Aug 11 2026 | Aug 7 2025 |
| Access | Open Source | Proprietary |
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Frequently asked questions
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning and GPT-5 mini don't publish scores on any of the same benchmarks, so there's no direct head-to-head comparison. Only GPT-5 mini has a verified first-party API price: $0.25 per million input tokens and $2.00 per million output tokens. No pay-as-you-go API rate is tracked for Nemotron 3.5 Lightning. GPT-5 mini shipped 369 days before Nemotron 3.5 Lightning, so benchmark comparisons should account for the intervening progress.
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning is open source, while GPT-5 mini is proprietary.
Direct benchmark comparisons are unavailable — Nemotron 3.5 Lightning and GPT-5 mini don't publish scores on any of the same benchmarks.
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning was released by NVIDIA on Aug 11 2026.
GPT-5 mini was released by OpenAI on Aug 7 2025.
Only GPT-5 mini has a verified first-party API price: $0.25 per million input tokens and $2.00 per million output tokens. No pay-as-you-go API rate is tracked for Nemotron 3.5 Lightning. Rates are pay-as-you-go API prices verified on August 18, 2026.
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning is an open source model released by NVIDIA. GPT-5 mini is a proprietary model released by OpenAI.