Compare AI models: MiniMax-M3.1-Flash vs Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B

MiniMax-M3.1-FlashMiniMaxHollow points use fallbacks · hover for details
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3BNVIDIAHollow points use fallbacks · hover for details

ReasoningCodingCost efficiencyContext windowMultimodalTool use

Normalized model capability scores
Model	Reasoning	Coding	Cost efficiency	Context window	Multimodal	Tool use
MiniMax-M3.1-Flash	50/100 — Reasoning supported; no comparable benchmark	50/100 — No data; neutral placeholder	67/100	81/100	50/100	50/100 — Tool calling supported; no comparable benchmark
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B	0/100	34/100	82/100	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

$0.15/ 1M

$0.06/ 1M

Output

$0.60/ 1M

$0.24/ 1M

Cached input

$0.01/ 1M

$0.06/ 1M

MomentumLast 2 mo

Unique users

943K

198K

Completed sessions

125,615,275

6,066,366

Token share

15.3%

0.33%

Tokens

188T+100%

4T+43%

SEP 6OCT 31

RetentionWeek 1

Returning users

75.4%11K user-weeks

Pending

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