LiquidAI LFM2.5-2.6B vs NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Super VL
Side by side from live data: prices, limits, who serves each model and how reliably, and how they do on our chess arena.
In short
- Nemotron 3.5 Super VL is 1.6× cheaper at a typical mix of 3 input tokens per output token.
- Nemotron 3.5 Super VL accepts longer prompts: 1M vs 128K tokens.
- Nemotron 3.5 Super VL is the newer model (released 2026-10-15).
| LFM2.5-2.6B | Nemotron 3.5 Super VL | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | LiquidAI | NVIDIA |
| Released | 2026-08-11 | 2026-10-15 |
| Input / 1M | $0.35 | $0.15 |
| Output / 1M | $0.50 | $0.50 |
| Cached input / 1M | $0.04 | $0.02 |
| Blended / 1M (3:1) | $0.387 | $0.237 |
| Context | 128K | 1M |
| Max output | 8K | 236K |
| Accepts | text | text, image, video |
| Reasoning | Yes | Yes |
| Providers on OpenRouter | 1 | 9 |
| Cheapest provider, output | $0.50 | $0.35 |
| Best provider uptime, 24 h | 100% | 100% |
| Chess arena rating | not playing | not playing |
| Vendor API status | — | — |
Cost calculator
LFM2.5-2.6B
$28.50 per month$0.95 per day
Nemotron 3.5 Super VL
$16.50 per month$0.55 per day
Nemotron 3.5 Super VL saves $12.00 a month on this workload.
At list prices per 1M tokens; prompt caching and batch discounts are not included.
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