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DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 vs NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Super VL

Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-10-19.

DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Super VL
Vendordeepseeknvidia
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score-40.1
Input Price$0.15/M$0.10/M
Output Price$0.60/M$0.40/M
Context Window1,048,5761,048,576
Max Output393,216235,929
Tool Calling✓✓
Structured Output✓✓
Reasoning Mode✓✓
Vision✓✓
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Benchmark Scores
ai_index-43.7

The verdict

For a sample job of 1 million input tokens and 250,000 output tokens, Nemotron 3.5 Super VL costs $0.20 and DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 costs $0.30, so Nemotron 3.5 Super VL is about 1.5 times cheaper for the same work.

Both read up to 1,048,576 tokens at once, roughly 1,573 pages of text.

Only Nemotron 3.5 Super VL offers video input.

Across the 19 tasks where they differ, Nemotron 3.5 Super VL on 19 (SQL Generation, Code Review, Code Completion and others).

Pick Nemotron 3.5 Super VL if you need lower cost, video input or the stronger all-round task scores.

Costs use current list prices per million tokens; page counts assume about 0.75 words per token and 500 words per page.

Who wins by task?

TaskDeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Super VL
SQL Generation 133 139
Code Review 132 140
Code Completion 131 132
Code Refactoring 136 143
Bug Fixing 136 144
Unit Test Generation 124 129
Code Documentation 131 135
Regex Writing 119 124
CI/CD Pipelines 120 125
Frontend Component Design 122 127
Data Analysis 124 130
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 133 135
ETL Scripting 128 134
JSON Extraction 131 131
OCR / Document Parsing 131 133
Table Extraction from PDFs 131 133
Long-Document Summarization 137 144
Short-Form Summarization 123 126
Blog Post Writing 121 127

Scores reflect capability match + benchmark data + pricing for each task. Methodology →

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