Nemotron 3 Super vs Step 3.5 Flash

Nemotron 3 Super at $0.098 in and $0.460 out and Step 3.5 Flash at $0.115 in and $0.345 out — per million tokens, from the same wallet.

Nemotron 3 Super

NVIDIA

0.09¢

for a client proposal

$0.098 in · $0.460 out / 1M

262K context · released 8 months ago

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Step 3.5 Flash

StepFun

0.09¢

for a client proposal

$0.115 in · $0.345 out / 1M

262K context · released 9 months ago

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Asking all both at once — identical prompt, identical context — costs about 0.17¢ for a typical client proposal.

At a glance

Cheapest input: Nemotron 3 Super at $0.098 per million tokens.
Cheapest output: Step 3.5 Flash at $0.345 per million tokens.
Identical context windows: 262K tokens each.

Cost per task

Estimated totals at the rates above. Solid bar is input, lighter bar is output.

Quick code fix

2K in · 500 out

Nemotron 3 Super

0.04¢

Step 3.5 Flash

0.04¢

Draft a client proposal from notes

5K in · 800 out

Nemotron 3 Super

0.09¢

Step 3.5 Flash

0.09¢

Context-heavy session (Alyph workspace)

155K in · 4K out

Nemotron 3 Super

1.7¢

Step 3.5 Flash

1.9¢

Analyze a 50-page legal contract

35K in · 1K out

Nemotron 3 Super

0.39¢

Step 3.5 Flash

0.44¢

Large architecture refactor

250K in · 3K out

Nemotron 3 Super

2.6¢

Step 3.5 Flash

3¢

Solid part of each bar is input tokens, the lighter part is output. Models that don’t fit a task are marked instead of priced.

Cost vs Token Amount

Drag the slider to adjust the split between input and output workload.

80% Input20% Output

Nemotron 3 Super

Step 3.5 Flash

Adjust the ratio slider to change how output tokens influence the final price for equivalent workloads.

Pricing

Nemotron 3 Super

Step 3.5 Flash

Input / 1M tokens

$0.098

$0.115

Output / 1M tokens

$0.460

$0.345

Specs

Nemotron 3 Super

Step 3.5 Flash

Provider

NVIDIA

StepFun

Released

8 months ago

9 months ago

Context window

262K

Max output

16K

66K

Input

Text

Output

Text

Reasoning

Shows its thinking

Knowledge cutoff

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Try it with real numbers

2K tokens in · 500 tokens out.

Nemotron 3 Super

NVIDIA

0.04¢

for this task

46% input · 54% output

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Step 3.5 Flash

StepFun

0.04¢

for this task

57% input · 43% output

Full pricing →

All 2, same prompt and context: 0.08¢. That is the entire cost of the comparison.

Your $5 welcome credit covers about 6,038 of these.

Which should you pick?

On price, Step 3.5 Flash is the cheapest of the two on a typical task, at about 0.09¢.

Or don’t pick. Send the identical prompt to all both, read the answers side by side, and keep the winner. How to run a fair bake-off →

Nemotron 3 Super pricing →Step 3.5 Flash pricing →Add Lyria 3 Clip Preview Add Grok 4.20

Questions, answered

Which is cheaper, Nemotron 3 Super or Step 3.5 Flash?

On a typical client proposal (5K tokens in, 800 out): Step 3.5 Flash at 0.09¢; Nemotron 3 Super at 0.09¢. Long prompts can change the order when long-context rates apply.

Which has the largest context window?

They are identical — 262K tokens each, about 370 pages.

Can I run Nemotron 3 Super and Step 3.5 Flash side by side on Alyph?

Yes — that is what Alyph is built for: the identical prompt with identical context to all 2, answers rendered side by side, billed from one wallet. This exact combination costs about 0.17¢ for a typical task.

Ask both at once

Identical prompt, identical context, answers side by side — about 0.17¢ for a typical client proposal. Free to start, with $5 of credit.