DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision (Max) vs Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B A55B (Reasoning)

Which is better for the money: DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision (Max) by DeepSeek or Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B A55B (Reasoning) by NVIDIA? Intelligence, total benchmark cost, and end-to-end time from Artificial Analysis & other sources, snapshot 2026-10-26.

Trade-off

DeepSeekDeepSeek V4 Flash Vision (Max)Off the frontier

Intelligence: 34.80
Total cost: $1081

NVIDIANemotron 3 Ultra 550B A55B (Reasoning)Off the frontier

Intelligence: 22.90
Total cost: $596

Verdict

Depends on your budget

DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision (Max) scores 11.9 points higher (34.8 vs 22.9) but costs 1.8× as much to run the benchmark ($1081 vs $596; both premium class). Pick DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision (Max) when the extra intelligence is worth the premium, otherwise Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B A55B (Reasoning).

Metric	DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision (Max)	Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B A55B (Reasoning)	Difference
Intelligence (higher is better)	34.8	22.9	−34.2% Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B… is 34.2% less intelligent
Total AA cost (lower is better)	$1,081.42	$596.33	−44.9% Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B… is 44.9% cheaper
End-to-end time (lower is better)	15.45s	15.27s	−1.2% Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B… is 1.2% faster
Price per 1M tokens (in / out)	$0.44 / $1.32	$0.60 / $2.70
Input modalities	Text, Image	Text

Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B A55B (Reasoning) vs DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision (Max): 34.2% less intelligence, 44.9% less cost to run the AA benchmark, and 1.2% faster end-to-end.

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Today's Pareto frontier

Against the frontier

DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision (Max) is off the frontier: at the same or lower cost, GPT-6.1 Sol (Xhigh) scores 51.00 for $662.
Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B A55B (Reasoning) is off the frontier: at the same or lower cost, GPT-6.1 Sol (High) scores 50.20 for $521.

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