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MiniMax: MiniMax M3.1 Flash (free) vs NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Super VL (free)

Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-10-20.

	MiniMax: MiniMax M3.1 Flash (free)	NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Super VL (free)
Vendor	minimax	nvidia
Quality Score	100	100
Benchmark Score	-	40.1
Input Price	Free	Free
Output Price	Free	Free
Context Window	1,000,000	1,000,000
Max Output	524,288	131,072
Tool Calling	✓	✓
Structured Output	✓	✓
Reasoning Mode	✓	✓
Vision	✓	✓
Audio	-	-
Benchmark Scores
ai_index	-	43.7

The verdict

For a sample job of 1 million input tokens and 250,000 output tokens, both cost $0 at current list prices.

Both read up to 1,000,000 tokens at once, roughly 1,500 pages of text.

Across the 18 tasks where they differ, Nemotron 3.5 Super VL (free) on 18 (SQL Generation, Code Review, Code Completion and others).

Pick Nemotron 3.5 Super VL (free) if you need 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.

Task	MiniMax: MiniMax M3.1 Flash (free)	NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Super VL (free)
SQL Generation	134	139
Code Review	132	140
Code Completion	132	132
Code Refactoring	136	143
Bug Fixing	136	144
Unit Test Generation	124	129
Code Documentation	132	135
Regex Writing	120	124
CI/CD Pipelines	120	125
Frontend Component Design	122	127
Data Analysis	124	130
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup	134	135
ETL Scripting	128	134
OCR / Document Parsing	131	133
Table Extraction from PDFs	131	133
Long-Document Summarization	138	145
Short-Form Summarization	124	126
Blog Post Writing	122	127

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