AI Model Comparison
Side-by-side comparison of pricing, context window, benchmarks, capabilities, and license. Every figure comes from the developer's own pages, last checked on ; each model's page lists its sources. A figure we could not source shows as a dash.
Model A — DeepSeek
DeepSeek-V4-Pro is a 1.6-trillion-parameter Mixture-of-Experts model with 49B active parameters and a one-million-token context. The API serves DeepSeek-V4-Pro-0813, the general-availability version released on 2026-08-13.
Model B — NVIDIA
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning is a 30B-parameter (3B active) open-weight language model from NVIDIA, released on August 11, 2026 with a hybrid Mamba-2 and mixture-of-experts architecture. NVIDIA says it supports up to 1M tokens of context and is ready for commercial use.
| Property | DeepSeek-V4-Pro | NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| Released | Aug 13, 2026 | Aug 11, 2026 |
| Developer | DeepSeek | NVIDIA |
| Type | llm | llm |
| License | open-weight | open-weight |
| Context window | 1,000,000 | — |
| Parameters | 1.6T total, 49B active (MoE) | 30B total, 3B active (Mamba-2 + MoE + attention hybrid) |
| Developer status | — | — |
| Input $/M tokens | $1.32 | — |
| Output $/M tokens | $3.96 | — |
Bold green values indicate the winner on that dimension where comparison is meaningful (lower price wins; bigger context wins; more open license wins; newer date wins). Prices are the ones each developer lists today; a model it no longer prices has none.
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