Muse Ember (Xhigh) vs Nemotron 3.5 Lightning

Which is better for the money: Muse Ember (Xhigh) by Meta or Nemotron 3.5 Lightning by NVIDIA? Intelligence, total benchmark cost, and end-to-end time from Artificial Analysis & other sources, snapshot 2026-11-10.

Clear winner

MetaMuse Ember (Xhigh)On the frontier

Intelligence: 34.10
Total cost: $95.7

NVIDIANemotron 3.5 LightningOff the frontier

Intelligence: 5.50
Total cost: $246

Verdict

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Nemotron 3.5 Lightning vs Muse Ember (Xhigh): 83.9% less intelligence, 156.8% more cost to run the AA benchmark, and 2.1% slower end-to-end.

Metric	Muse Ember (Xhigh)	Nemotron 3.5 Lightning	Difference
Intelligence (higher is better)	34.1	5.5	−83.9% Nemotron 3.5 Lightning is 83.9% less intelligent
Total AA cost (lower is better)	$95.73	$245.82	+156.8% Nemotron 3.5 Lightning is 2.6× more expensive
End-to-end time (lower is better)	9.48s	9.68s	+2.1% Nemotron 3.5 Lightning is 2.1% slower
Price per 1M tokens (in / out)	$0.10 / $0.50	$0.06 / $0.20
Input modalities	Text, Image	Text

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