NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Super VL vs OpenAI: GPT-6 Luna
Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-10-19.
| NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Super VL | OpenAI: GPT-6 Luna | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | nvidia | openai |
| Quality Score | 100 | 100 |
| Benchmark Score | 40.1 | 62.5 |
| Input Price | $0.10/M | $0.10/M |
| Output Price | $0.40/M | $0.50/M |
| Context Window | 1,048,576 | 1,050,000 |
| Max Output | 235,929 | 128,000 |
| Tool Calling | ✓ | ✓ |
| Structured Output | ✓ | ✓ |
| Reasoning Mode | ✓ | ✓ |
| Vision | ✓ | ✓ |
| Audio | - | - |
| Benchmark Scores | ||
| ai_index | 43.7 | 62.9 |
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 GPT-6 Luna costs $0.23, so Nemotron 3.5 Super VL is slightly cheaper for the same work.
Both take in a similar amount of text: 1,048,576 and 1,050,000 tokens, about 1,573 and 1,575 pages.
Only Nemotron 3.5 Super VL offers video input.
On our blended benchmark score GPT-6 Luna leads 62.5 to 40.1.
Across the 18 tasks where they differ, GPT-6 Luna on 18 (SQL Generation, Code Review, Code Completion and others).
Nemotron 3.5 Super VL was released in October 2026 and GPT-6 Luna in September 2026.
Pick Nemotron 3.5 Super VL if you need lower cost or video input; pick GPT-6 Luna if you need benchmark performance 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?
| Task | NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Super VL | OpenAI: GPT-6 Luna |
|---|---|---|
| SQL Generation | 139 | 141 |
| Code Review | 140 | 144 |
| Code Completion | 132 | 133 |
| Code Refactoring | 143 | 146 |
| Bug Fixing | 144 | 148 |
| Unit Test Generation | 129 | 131 |
| Code Documentation | 135 | 137 |
| Regex Writing | 124 | 126 |
| CI/CD Pipelines | 125 | 127 |
| Frontend Component Design | 127 | 129 |
| Data Analysis | 130 | 133 |
| CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup | 135 | 136 |
| ETL Scripting | 134 | 136 |
| OCR / Document Parsing | 133 | 134 |
| Table Extraction from PDFs | 133 | 134 |
| Long-Document Summarization | 144 | 148 |
| Short-Form Summarization | 126 | 127 |
| Blog Post Writing | 127 | 129 |
Scores reflect capability match + benchmark data + pricing for each task. Methodology →