Nemotron 3.5 Super VL vs Mistral Medium 3.5
Nemotron 3.5 Super VL is from NVIDIA, released October 15, 2026. Mistral Medium 3.5 is from Mistral AI, released April 28, 2026.
- LMArena Elo1416 vs 1426. Mistral Medium 3.5 is 0.7% ahead on LMArena Elo.
- Context window1M vs 256k. Nemotron 3.5 Super VL takes 291% more context in one request.
Prices are the vendors’ published API rates; Elo is LMArena’s text board. Each figure is dated on its model page.
Interactive Comparison
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Free — open weights, self-hosted (no first-party API pricing) | $1.50 / $7.50 per million tokens | |
|---|---|---|
| Identity | ||
| Developer | NVIDIA | Mistral AI |
| Released | Oct 2026 | Apr 2026 |
| Status | GA | GA |
| Licence | OpenMDW License Agreement 1.1 | Open weights (Modified MIT) |
| Self-hostable | Yes — open weights (BF16 and NVFP4 releases) | Yes (open weights) |
| Cost | ||
| Blended $/1M tokensinput × 0.75 + output × 0.25 | — | $3.000 / 1M tokens |
| Input price | Self-hosted — no first-party API price | $1.500 / 1M tokens |
| Output price | Self-hosted — no first-party API price | $7.500 / 1M tokens |
| Cached input | — | Not published |
| Batch discount | — | 50% off (Batch API) |
| Free tier | — | Free tier via La Plateforme rate limits |
| Capacity | ||
| Context window | 1M tokens | 256k tokens |
| Max output | — | Not published |
| Long-context surcharge | — | Not published |
| Capability | ||
| Vision in | Yes — images and video | Yes |
| Audio in | No | No |
| Function calling | — | Yes |
| Structured output | — | Yes |
| Extended reasoning | — | Yes (configurable reasoning effort) |
| Web search | — | No |
| Code execution | — | No |
| Access | ||
| API | Not offered first-party | Yes |
| Chat app | — | Yes |
| Cloud marketplaces | NVIDIA NIM | Not published |
| Fine-tuning | Yes — open weights permit it | Not published |
| Measured quality | ||
| LMArena Elo | 1416 (checked Oct 2026) | 1426 (checked Oct 2026) |
| LMArena rank | Rank 138 | Rank 117 |
| Elo per dollarLMArena Elo ÷ blended $/1M tokens | — | 475 |
