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 — 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.
Model B — Upstage
Solar Open 2 is an open-weight hybrid-attention mixture-of-experts model from Upstage, released on July 22, 2026 for agentic use (office productivity, document-intensive work and coding), with official support for Korean, English and Japanese. Upstage’s closed-beta API for it ran from July 8 to August 12, 2026; the open weights remain available.
| Property | NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning | Solar Open 2 (250B) |
|---|---|---|
| Released | Aug 11, 2026 | Jul 22, 2026 |
| Developer | NVIDIA | Upstage |
| Type | llm | llm |
| License | open-weight | open-weight |
| Context window | — | — |
| Parameters | 30B total, 3B active (Mamba-2 + MoE + attention hybrid) | 250B total, 15B active (Mixture of Experts) |
| Developer status | — | — |
| Input $/M tokens | — | — |
| Output $/M tokens | — | — |
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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