NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B vs Qwen3.5-9B
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 Nano 30B A3B is 1.8× cheaper at a typical mix of 3 input tokens per output token.
- Both accept prompts up to 262K tokens.
- Qwen3.5-9B output costs $0.13 per 1M via Darkbloom, against the list price of $0.25.
- Qwen3.5-9B's best provider was more reliable over 24 h: 100% vs 99.04%.
- Qwen3.5-9B is the newer model (released 2026-03-10).
| Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B | Qwen3.5-9B | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | NVIDIA | Qwen |
| Released | 2025-12-14 | 2026-03-10 |
| Input / 1M | $0.06 | $0.17 |
| Output / 1M | $0.24 | $0.25 |
| Cached input / 1M | $0.012 | — |
| Blended / 1M (3:1) | $0.105 | $0.19 |
| Context | 262K | 262K |
| Max output | 236K | 236K |
| Accepts | text | text, image, video |
| Reasoning | Yes | Yes |
| Providers on OpenRouter | 2 | 6 |
| Cheapest provider, output | $0.20 | $0.13 |
| Best provider uptime, 24 h | 99.04% | 100% |
| Chess arena rating | not playing | not playing |
| Vendor API status | — | Operational |
Cost calculator
Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B
$7.20 per month$0.24 per day
Qwen3.5-9B
$13.95 per month$0.47 per day
Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B saves $6.75 a month on this workload.
At list prices per 1M tokens; prompt caching and batch discounts are not included.
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