Nemotron 3.5 Super VL and what to use instead
For coding help for non-developers, Nemotron 3.5 Super VL scores 26 and costs $1.20 per 1,000 requests. Here’s what beats it on price, on quality, or on privacy.
Cheaper at similar quality
At least 30% cheaper and within 5 points.
Nothing we track fits this today.
Better at a similar price
At least 5 points stronger and no more than 20% dearer.
GLM-5.3-FlashZ.ai · open weightsSame price per request, and 43 points stronger.$1.20 per 1,000 requests · score 69Compare side by side →
MiniMax-M3.1-FlashMiniMaxAbout 13% dearer per request, and 34 points stronger.$1.35 per 1,000 requests · score 60Compare side by side →
Claude Haiku 5.5AnthropicAbout 12% cheaper per request, and 26 points stronger.$1.05 per 1,000 requests · score 52Compare side by side →
Open weights you can host
Ranked by value: quality for the money.
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017DeepSeek · open weightsAbout 125% dearer per request, and 48 points stronger.$2.70 per 1,000 requests · score 74Compare side by side →
GLM-5.3-FlashZ.ai · open weightsSame price per request, and 43 points stronger.$1.20 per 1,000 requests · score 69Compare side by side →
Kimi K3Moonshot AI · open weightsAbout 2525% dearer per request, and 48 points stronger.$31.50 per 1,000 requests · score 74Compare side by side →
Scores are provisional (Arena and Epoch AI) and prices are list prices. Rankings never take money into account. Thresholds are in the methodology.