Claude Sonnet 5 (Low) vs Nemotron 3.5 Super VL
Which is better for the money: Claude Sonnet 5 (Low) by Anthropic or Nemotron 3.5 Super VL by NVIDIA? Intelligence, total benchmark cost, and end-to-end time from Artificial Analysis & other sources, snapshot 2026-10-26.
Clear winner
Verdict
Pick Nemotron 3.5 Super VL
Nemotron 3.5 Super VL vs Claude Sonnet 5 (Low): 9.1% more intelligence, 56.2% less cost to run the AA benchmark, and 31.0% faster end-to-end.
| Metric | Claude Sonnet 5 (Low) | Nemotron 3.5 Super VL | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Intelligence (higher is better) | 24.3 | 26.5 | +9.1% Nemotron 3.5 Super VL is 9.1% more intelligent |
| Total AA cost (lower is better) | $652.70 | $286.07 | −56.2% Nemotron 3.5 Super VL is 56.2% cheaper |
| End-to-end time (lower is better) | 9.14s | 6.31s | −31.0% Nemotron 3.5 Super VL is 31.0% faster |
| Price per 1M tokens (in / out) | $2.00 / $10.0 | $0.23 / $0.57 | |
| Input modalities | Text, Image | Text, Image |
Today's Pareto frontier
Against the frontier
- Claude Sonnet 5 (Low) is off the frontier: at the same or lower cost, GPT-6.1 Sol (High) scores 50.20 for $521.
- Nemotron 3.5 Super VL is off the frontier: at the same or lower cost, MiMo-V2.6-Pro scores 46.30 for $207.
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