Compare AI models: Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B vs Grok 4.6

Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3BNVIDIAHollow points use fallbacks · hover for details
Grok 4.6xAIHollow points use fallbacks · hover for details

ReasoningCodingCost efficiencyContext windowMultimodalTool use

Normalized model capability scores
Model	Reasoning	Coding	Cost efficiency	Context window	Multimodal	Tool use
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B	0/100	34/100	80/100	63/100	0/100	50/100 — Tool calling supported; no comparable benchmark
Grok 4.6	50/100 — Reasoning supported; no comparable benchmark	39/100	25/100	74/100	33/100	50/100 — Tool calling supported; no comparable benchmark

Overview

Author

NVIDIA

xAI

Context length

262K

500K

Reasoning

True

Input modalities

Text

Text, Image

Output modalities

Text

Providers

NVIDIA

xAI

Pricing

Input

$0.06/ 1M

$2.00/ 1M

Output

$0.24/ 1M

$6.00/ 1M

Cached input

$0.06/ 1M

$0.50/ 1M

MomentumLast 2 mo

Unique users

185K

41K

Completed sessions

5,444,474

98,371

Token share

0.31%

Tokens

4.1T+28%

39B-2%

SEP 11NOV 5

RetentionWeek 1

Returning users

Pending

34.9%2.2K user-weeks

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