head-to-head

Crouton Alpha vs NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Super VL (free)

Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-11-03.

	Crouton Alpha	NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Super VL (free)
Vendor	stealth	nvidia
Quality Score	100	100
Input Price	Free	Free
Output Price	Free	Free
Context Window	1,048,576	1,000,000
Max Output	943,718	131,072
Tool Calling	✓	✓
Structured Output	✓	✓
Reasoning Mode	✓	✓
Vision	✓	✓
Audio	✓	-

The verdict

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

Both take in a similar amount of text: 1,048,576 and 1,000,000 tokens, about 1,573 and 1,500 pages.

Only Crouton Alpha offers audio input.

Crouton Alpha was released in November 2026 and Nemotron 3.5 Super VL (free) in October 2026.

Pick Crouton Alpha if you need audio input.

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