Gemini 4 Carbon (Medium) vs Nemotron 3.5 Lightning

Which is better for the money: Gemini 4 Carbon (Medium) by Google or Nemotron 3.5 Lightning by NVIDIA? Intelligence, total benchmark cost, and end-to-end time from Artificial Analysis & other sources, snapshot 2026-11-03.

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GoogleGemini 4 Carbon (Medium)On the frontier

Intelligence: 57.70
Total cost: $5903

NVIDIANemotron 3.5 LightningOff the frontier

Intelligence: 5.50
Total cost: $227

Verdict

Depends on your budget

Gemini 4 Carbon (Medium) scores 52.2 points higher (57.7 vs 5.5) but costs 26× as much to run the benchmark ($5903 vs $227; flagship vs mid-range cost classes). They are not alternatives at one budget: pick Gemini 4 Carbon (Medium) when you need intelligence above 5.5, and Nemotron 3.5 Lightning when 5.5 is enough.

Metric	Gemini 4 Carbon (Medium)	Nemotron 3.5 Lightning	Difference
Intelligence (higher is better)	57.7	5.5	−90.5% Nemotron 3.5 Lightning is 90.5% less intelligent
Total AA cost (lower is better)	$5,903.03	$227.02	−96.2% Nemotron 3.5 Lightning is 96.2% cheaper
End-to-end time (lower is better)	11.62s	9.13s	−21.4% Nemotron 3.5 Lightning is 21.4% faster
Price per 1M tokens (in / out)	$4.00 / $20.0	$0.06 / $0.20
Input modalities	Text, Image, Speech, Video	Text

Nemotron 3.5 Lightning vs Gemini 4 Carbon (Medium): 90.5% less intelligence, 96.2% less cost to run the AA benchmark, and 21.4% faster end-to-end.

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