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NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Super VL vs DeepSeek: DeepSeek Flash Latest

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

	NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Super VL	DeepSeek: DeepSeek Flash Latest
Vendor	nvidia	~deepseek
Quality Score	100	100
Benchmark Score	40.1	-
Input Price	$0.10/M	$0.05/M
Output Price	$0.40/M	$0.60/M
Context Window	1,048,576	1,048,576
Max Output	235,929	943,718
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 $0.20 at current list prices.

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

Nemotron 3.5 Super VL was released in October 2026 and DeepSeek Flash Latest in September 2026.

Pick Nemotron 3.5 Super VL if you need 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.

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

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