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DeepSeek V4.1 Flash vs Nemotron 3.5 Lightning

Compare DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, Nemotron 3.5 Lightning by token pricing, context length, benchmark results, speed and tool support.

Monthly workload

Monthly cost breakdown

InputOutput

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash

$7.00 / mo

Nemotron 3.5 Lightning

$1.68 / mo

Performance comparison

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash

39.5

Nemotron 3.5 Lightning

12.9

Overview

Released
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash
2026-09-10
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning
2026-08-11
Status
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash
Active
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning
Active
Input formats
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash
textimage
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning
text
Output formats
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash
text
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning
text

Pricing & capacity

Input / 1M tokens
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash
$0.05
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning
$0.05
Output / 1M tokens
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash
$1.20
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning
$0.14
Cached input / 1M
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash
$0.02
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning
$0.02
Monthly cost
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash
$7.00
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning
$1.68
Context window
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash
1M
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning
262K
Maximum output
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash
944K
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning
33K

Benchmarks & performance

Intelligence Index
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash
39.5
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning
12.9
GPQA
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash
Not listed
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning
74.3%
Humanity’s Last Exam
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash
39.2%
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning
10.6%
SciCode
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash
51.9%
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning
32.1%
Output speed
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash
213 tokens/s
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning
301 tokens/s
Time to first token
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash
1.05 s
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning
0.56 s
DesignArena rating
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash
1,325
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning
Not listed
DesignArena win rate
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash
52.1%
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning
Not listed

Tools & features

Function calling
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash
Supported
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning
Supported
Structured outputs
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash
Supported
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning
Supported
JSON mode
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash
Supported
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning
Supported
Reasoning
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash
Supported
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning
Supported
Log probabilities
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash
Supported
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning
Supported
Deterministic seed
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash
Supported
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning
Supported
Prompt caching
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash
Supported
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning
Supported

API & availability

API identifier
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash
deepseek-v4.1-flash
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning
nemotron-3.5-lightning
Prices checked
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash
Oct 8, 2026
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning
Oct 8, 2026

About the models

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash is a sparse mixture-of-experts model from DeepSeek, and the first built on the company's Causal Encoder-Decoder (CED) architecture. It activates 8B parameters on input and 16B on...

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Nemotron 3.5 Lightning

NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning is an open mixture-of-experts model from NVIDIA, with 3B active parameters out of 30B total. It is suited for high-throughput agentic workloads and specialized tasks that...

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Comparison FAQ

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash: $0.05 input and $1.20 output per million tokens. Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: $0.05 input and $0.14 output per million tokens. The cheaper choice depends on your input-to-output ratio; a model can have a lower input rate but a higher output rate.

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