Llama 4 Maverick vs Nemotron 3.5 Super VL
Updated October 21, 2026. 9 benchmarks have a result for both. Coding is ranked on the Vibe Coding Index; every other board is shown as published.
Decision reading
Pick Nemotron 3.5 Super VL for coding: it scores 65.5 on the Vibe Coding Index against 18.1 for Llama 4 Maverick, though on 1 benchmark against 2.
Llama 4 Maverick is neither cheaper nor larger in context, and leads no benchmark both models were measured on.
- Shared results
- 9
- Llama 4 Maverick only
- 75
- Nemotron 3.5 Super VL only
- 7
- Like-for-like categories
- 5 of 9
Shared results can support a head-to-head reading. Results only one model has describe coverage, not superiority.
Which one for your work
Each card is decided by one number both models carry. Where only one has it, the card says so and makes no call.
Coding
Vibe Coding Index, four public coding benchmarks
Nemotron 3.5 Super VL
Nemotron 3.5 Super VL scores 65.5 against 18.1.
2 and 1 benchmarks behind the scores
Intelligence
AA Intelligence Index
Nemotron 3.5 Super VL
Nemotron 3.5 Super VL leads, 26.5 against 9.3.
Same board, both measured
Agentic work
AA Agentic Index
No call
Only Llama 4 Maverick has a AA Agentic Index result, 0.6.
Directional only
Reasoning
GPQA Diamond
No call
Only Llama 4 Maverick has a GPQA Diamond result, 69.4%.
Directional only
Math
AIME
No call
Only Llama 4 Maverick has a AIME result, 25.2%.
Directional only
Knowledge
MMLU Pro
No call
Only Llama 4 Maverick has a MMLU Pro result, 79.4%.
Directional only
Web design
Design Arena: websites
Nemotron 3.5 Super VL
Nemotron 3.5 Super VL leads, 1171 against 871.
Same board, both measured
Long documents
Listed context window
Nemotron 3.5 Super VL
Nemotron 3.5 Super VL takes 1.05M tokens against 524K.
Listed by OpenRouter
Everyday cost
1K input + 500 output tokens
Nemotron 3.5 Super VL
Llama 4 Maverick $0.0005, Nemotron 3.5 Super VL $0.0004 per turn.
List prices
Cost per solved task
One SWE-bench Verified task, solved
No call
Only Llama 4 Maverick has the number, $1.491.
Directional only
At a glance
- Coding index
- Llama 4 Maverick 18.1 from 2 benchmarks, Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 65.5 from 1 benchmark.
- Widest category
- Web design, 33.1 points apart on average over 5 shared benchmarks.
- Widest single gap
- Design Arena: websites: Llama 4 Maverick 871 against Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 1171, 37.5 points apart on a 0 to 100 scale.
- Output price
- Llama 4 Maverick $0.6525 against Nemotron 3.5 Super VL $0.50 per million output tokens, 1.3x apart.
- Context window
- Llama 4 Maverick takes 524K tokens, Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 1.05M.
Benchmark by benchmark
First the score: boards each model leads, per category, where both have a result. Then every board, a category to a fold; bars are each result on a 0 to 100 scale, so compare the two in a row, not one row with another.
| Category | Llama 4 Maverick | Bars | Nemotron 3.5 Super VL | Ties |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coding | 0 | 1 | ||
| Intelligence | 0 | 1 | ||
| Reasoning | 0 | 1 | ||
| Web design | 0 | 5 | ||
| General | 0 | 1 | ||
| All shared boards | 0 | 9 |
CodingLike-for-likeFour of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index01
| Benchmark | Llama 4 Maverick | Nemotron 3.5 Super VL | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aider polyglot | 15.6% | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| SWE-bench Verified | 21.0% | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| LiveBench coding | Not measured | 65.5% | Only Nemotron 3.5 Super VL measured |
| AA Coding Index | 16.3 | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals AI) | 47.3% | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| LiveCodeBench (Artificial Analysis run) | 39.7% | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| SciCode | 31.7% | 47.8% | Nemotron 3.5 Super VL |
| Terminal-Bench Hard (Artificial Analysis run) | 6.8% | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| WeirdML | 24.5% | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| ALE-Bench | 173.0 | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| LMArena Text: coding | 1301 | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| LMArena Text: software and IT | 1299 | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 26 boards here | |||
IntelligenceLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index01
| Benchmark | Llama 4 Maverick | Nemotron 3.5 Super VL | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Intelligence Index | 9.3 | 26.5 | Nemotron 3.5 Super VL |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 132.2 | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
Agentic workDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index5 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Llama 4 Maverick | Nemotron 3.5 Super VL | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Agentic Index | 0.6 | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| LiveBench research | Not measured | 70.9% | Only Nemotron 3.5 Super VL measured |
| LiveBench browser | Not measured | 4.0% | Only Nemotron 3.5 Super VL measured |
| LiveBench long agentic | Not measured | 15.8% | Only Nemotron 3.5 Super VL measured |
| τ²-Bench Telecom | 17.8% | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 34 boards here | |||
ReasoningLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index01
| Benchmark | Llama 4 Maverick | Nemotron 3.5 Super VL | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 69.4% | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| LiveBench reasoning | Not measured | 78.8% | Only Nemotron 3.5 Super VL measured |
| MMMU Pro (Vals AI) | 71.7% | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| GPQA Diamond (Artificial Analysis run) | 67.1% | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run) | 4.9% | 30.7% | Nemotron 3.5 Super VL |
| ARC-AGI | 4.4% | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 0.0% | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| SimpleBench | 27.7% | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts | 1281 | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| LMArena Text: expert | 1259 | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts in English | 1295 | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| LMArena Vision: diagrams | 1134 | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| LMArena Vision: homework | 1164 | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 8 boards here | |||
MathDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index7 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Llama 4 Maverick | Nemotron 3.5 Super VL | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AIME | 25.2% | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| MATH 500 (Vals AI) | 85.2% | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| MGSM (Vals AI) | 92.4% | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| AA Math Index | 19.3 | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| AIME 2025 (Artificial Analysis run) | 19.3% | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| LMArena Text: math | 1299 | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| LMArena Text: mathematical work | 1295 | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 6 boards here | |||
KnowledgeDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index13 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Llama 4 Maverick | Nemotron 3.5 Super VL | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| MMLU Pro | 79.4% | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| LegalBench (Vals AI) | 77.8% | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| CorpFin (Vals AI) | 49.7% | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| TaxEval (Vals AI) | 66.6% | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| MortgageTax (Vals AI) | 58.5% | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| MedQA (Vals AI) | 43.3% | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| MedCode (Vals AI) | 36.5% | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| MMLU Pro (Artificial Analysis run) | 80.9% | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| GeoBench | 52.0% | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| LMArena Text: science | 1288 | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare | 1275 | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| LMArena Text: legal and government | 1286 | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| LMArena Text: business and finance | 1260 | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 4 boards here | |||
Web designLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index05
| Benchmark | Llama 4 Maverick | Nemotron 3.5 Super VL | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Design Arena: websites | 871 | 1171 | Nemotron 3.5 Super VL |
| Design Arena: UI components | 899 | 1148 | Nemotron 3.5 Super VL |
| Design Arena: game dev | 838 | 1108 | Nemotron 3.5 Super VL |
| Design Arena: data viz | 882 | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| Design Arena: 3D | 901 | 1132 | Nemotron 3.5 Super VL |
| Design Arena: all code categories | 880 | 1155 | Nemotron 3.5 Super VL |
| LiveBench design | Not measured | 60.7% | Only Nemotron 3.5 Super VL measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 2 boards here | |||
GeneralLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index01
| Benchmark | Llama 4 Maverick | Nemotron 3.5 Super VL | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| LiveBench data analysis | Not measured | 64.6% | Only Nemotron 3.5 Super VL measured |
| SAGE (Vals AI) | 35.7% | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| MedScribe (Vals AI) | 54.2% | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| IFBench | 43.0% | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| Long context reasoning (AA-LCR) | 50.0% | 69.0% | Nemotron 3.5 Super VL |
| DTBench | 61.9% | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| LMCA | 15.9% | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| Fiction.LiveBench | 46.2% | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| Creative writing (Lech Mazur) | 62.0% | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| LMArena Text | 1287 | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| LMArena Text: instruction following | 1267 | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| LMArena Text: creative writing | 1266 | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| LMArena Vision | 1142 | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| LMArena Text: English | 1303 | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| LMArena Text: non-English | 1269 | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| LMArena Text: Chinese | 1277 | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| LMArena Text: German | 1291 | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| LMArena Text: Japanese | 1206 | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| LMArena Text: Korean | 1203 | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| LMArena Text: French | 1259 | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| LMArena Text: Spanish | 1293 | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| LMArena Text: Russian | 1286 | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| LMArena Text: Polish | 1275 | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| LMArena Text: multi-turn | 1289 | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| LMArena Text: longer queries | 1280 | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| LMArena Text: writing and language | 1277 | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| LMArena Text: entertainment and media | 1250 | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| LMArena Vision: English | 1150 | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| LMArena Vision: Chinese | 1141 | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| LMArena Vision: reading text | 1143 | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| LMArena Vision: humor | 1100 | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| LMArena Vision: creative writing | 1099 | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 14 boards here | |||
Image generationNot comparablePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index0 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Llama 4 Maverick | Nemotron 3.5 Super VL | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Neither model has a result on 5 boards here | |||
What each workload costs
Three fixed token mixes at each model's listed price, so per-token rates become a bill.
Chat turn
1K input + 500 output tokens
Nemotron 3.5 Super VL costs less
Repository review
50K input + 3K output tokens
Nemotron 3.5 Super VL costs less
Agent loop
200K input + 10K output tokens
Nemotron 3.5 Super VL costs less
Listed OpenRouter rates, without cache or batch discounts. A workload that does not fit a model's context window would need splitting.
Specification differences
The leading value in a row is marked; a row with a missing value names no leader. Our two rows are marked in red.
| Specification | Meta Llama 4 Maverick | NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Super VL |
|---|---|---|
| Maker | Meta Llama | NVIDIA |
| Weights | Open weights | Open weights |
| Released | April 5, 2025 | October 15, 2026 |
| Context window | 524K | 1.05M |
| Input $/Mtok | $0.1875 | $0.15 |
| Output $/Mtok | $0.6525 | $0.50 |
| Coding index | 18.1 | 65.5 |
| Independent measurements behind it | 2 | 1 |
| Cost per solved task | $1.491 | Not computable |
| Source | OpenRouter listing | OpenRouter listing |
Questions
Is Llama 4 Maverick better than Nemotron 3.5 Super VL for coding?
Pick Nemotron 3.5 Super VL for coding: it scores 65.5 on the Vibe Coding Index against 18.1 for Llama 4 Maverick, though on 1 benchmark against 2. Llama 4 Maverick is neither cheaper nor larger in context, and leads no benchmark both models were measured on.
Which is cheaper, Llama 4 Maverick or Nemotron 3.5 Super VL?
Llama 4 Maverick costs $0.1875 per million input tokens and $0.6525 per million output tokens; Nemotron 3.5 Super VL costs $0.15 and $0.50. Cost per solved task is known for Llama 4 Maverick only.
Which has the bigger context window, Llama 4 Maverick or Nemotron 3.5 Super VL?
Nemotron 3.5 Super VL, with 1.05M tokens against 524K.
How many benchmarks is the Llama 4 Maverick vs Nemotron 3.5 Super VL comparison based on?
9 benchmarks have a result for both models as of October 21, 2026. Llama 4 Maverick's coding index rests on 2 independent benchmarks and Nemotron 3.5 Super VL's on 1. Where only one model has a result, the page says so instead of naming a winner.