Muse Ember (Max) vs Nemotron 3.5 Lightning

Which is better for the money: Muse Ember (Max) by Meta or Nemotron 3.5 Lightning by NVIDIA? Intelligence, total benchmark cost, and end-to-end time from Artificial Analysis & other sources, snapshot 2026-11-09.

Clear winner

MetaMuse Ember (Max)On the frontier

Intelligence: 36.00
Total cost: $117

NVIDIANemotron 3.5 LightningOff the frontier

Intelligence: 5.50
Total cost: $227

Verdict

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Nemotron 3.5 Lightning vs Muse Ember (Max): 84.7% less intelligence, 93.8% more cost to run the AA benchmark, and end-to-end time not fully reported.

Metric	Muse Ember (Max)	Nemotron 3.5 Lightning	Difference
Intelligence (higher is better)	36.0	5.5	−84.7% Nemotron 3.5 Lightning is 84.7% less intelligent
Total AA cost (lower is better)	$117.12	$227.02	+93.8% Nemotron 3.5 Lightning is 93.8% more expensive
End-to-end time (lower is better)	Not reported	9.43s	— not comparable
Price per 1M tokens (in / out)	$0.10 / $0.50	$0.06 / $0.20
Input modalities	Text, Image	Text

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