Nemotron 3.5 Lightning Free vs DeepSeek V4.1 Flash
Lower and Larger mark one number at a time; they don’t rank the models. How well a model does depends on your task; see Benchmarks for measured results.
| Detail | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning Freenvidia/nemotron-3.5-lightning-free | DeepSeek V4.1 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4.1-flash |
|---|---|---|
| Maker | nvidia | deepseek |
| Kind | Chat | Chat |
| Input per 1M tokens | Free Lower | $0.07875 |
| Cached input per 1M tokens | Not applicable | $0.001575 |
| Cache write per 1M tokens | Not applicable | Same as input |
| Output per 1M tokens | Free Lower | $0.315 |
| Context window | 1,000,000 tokens | 1,048,576 tokens Larger |
| Max output | 65,000 tokens Larger | 32,768 tokens |
| Capabilities | Reasoning, tool use | Reasoning, tool use, vision |
| Takes | Text | Text, image |
| Returns | Text | Text |
| Zero data retention | Not on every provider | Not on every provider |
| No training on requests | Not on every provider | Not on every provider |
| Released | 2026-10-14 | 2026-09-08 |
Example costs
Example requests, priced at today’s rates with no cached input.
| Example request | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning Free | DeepSeek V4.1 Flash |
|---|---|---|
| 1,000 tokens in, 200 out | $0.00 | $0.000142 |
| 10,000 tokens in, 1,000 out | $0.00 | $0.001103 |
| 100,000 tokens in, 4,000 out | $0.00 | $0.009135 |