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	83/100	60/100	92/100	50/100	21/100
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B	0/100	34/100	83/100	63/100	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

$0.23/ 1M

$0.05/ 1M

Output

$0.96/ 1M

$0.20/ 1M

Cached input

$0.05/ 1M

$0.01/ 1M

MomentumLast 2 mo

Unique users

199K

220K

Completed sessions

1,665,360

7,085,551

Token share

0.18%

0.35%

Tokens

2.1T-56%

4.2T+84%

SEP 2OCT 27

RetentionWeek 1

Returning users

60.2%12K user-weeks

Pending

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