Compare AI models: MiniMax-M3 vs Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B

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ReasoningCodingCost efficiencyContext windowMultimodalTool use

Normalized model capability scores
Model	Reasoning	Coding	Cost efficiency	Context window	Multimodal	Tool use
MiniMax-M3	50/100 — Reasoning supported; no comparable benchmark	85/100	58/100	92/100	50/100	21/100
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B	0/100	37/100	86/100	61/100	0/100	50/100 — Tool calling supported; no comparable benchmark

Overview

Author

MiniMax

NVIDIA

Context length

262K

Reasoning

True

Input modalities

Text, Image, Video

Text

Output modalities

Text

Providers

MiniMax

NVIDIA

Pricing

Input

$0.33/ 1M

$0.05/ 1M

Output

$1.32/ 1M

$0.20/ 1M

Cached input

$0.07/ 1M

$0.01/ 1M

MomentumLast 2 mo

Unique users

309K

276K

Completed sessions

1,431,423

5,273,082

Token share

0.31%

0.48%

Tokens

2.8T-72%

4.3T+100%

AUG 8OCT 2

RetentionWeek 1

Returning users

57.7%19K user-weeks

Pending

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