InferIndex · https://inferindex.dev/en/compare/nvidia/nemotron-3.5-lightning/vs/sao10k/l3-8b-stheno-v3.2
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning costs from $0.06 per million tokens at a 3:1 input:output mix: the cheapest of 4 current offers without a flag. A lower price, $0.049, is listed with a flag. L3-8B-Stheno-v3.2 costs from $0.05, the cheapest price. Prices checked on .
At these prices, Nemotron 3.5 Lightning costs 1.2× as much as L3-8B-Stheno-v3.2 per million tokens (at a 3:1 input:output mix).
Each model's lowest blended price, per 1M tokens, across every provider we track.
| Model | Lowest blended price, $ per 1M tokens. Green background: the most favourable value of each column. | Input price of the cheapest offer, per 1M tokens | Output price of the cheapest offer, per 1M tokens | The provider's published policy says the text you send is not used to train models. We only show what is published; we can't check it ourselves. | For 2,000 input tokens and 500 output tokens per request, 1,000 requests a day, at the cheapest offer for that workload. Change the workload above. | Offers | Providers | The maximum amount of text, counted in tokens, the model can take in and write in a single request. Past this limit, the request is refused or cut. | Observation |
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| Most expensive offer · $0.103. The highest blended price among comparable offers: one price per provider (its cheapest route), standard tier, current prices only. Priority tiers and prices converted from points are not counted. Green background: the most favourable value of each column., most favourable value of the column | $0.025, most favourable value of the column | $0.12 | at DeepInfra | $3.30, most favourable value of the columnat Darkbloom via OpenRouter | 16 | 11, most favourable value of the column | 262k | Cheapest. Lowest blended price, $ per 1M tokens | |
| Most expensive offer · $0.373. The highest blended price among comparable offers: one price per provider (its cheapest route), standard tier, current prices only. Priority tiers and prices converted from points are not counted. | $0.05 | $0.05, most favourable value of the column | $0.05, most favourable value of the column | $3.75at Novita via Hugging Face | 3 | 3 | 8k |
Green background: the most favourable value of each column.
Prices as of Oct 30, 2026, 5:57 PM UTCSame rules as the API's /cheapest route. The monthly estimate uses the cheapest offer for that workload.