// head_to_head
Nemotron 3.5 Super VL (free) vs GPT-6.1 Sol
Published LiveBench scores across all seven categories, live list pricing, context windows, and the measured cost of a point of capability — for both models, side by side.
Nemotron 3.5 Super VL (free) is the cheaper of the two; neither can be ranked on quality here.
Nemotron 3.5 Super VL (free) does not have a published LiveBench run, so this comparison covers price, context and declared capabilities only. A missing score means "not evaluated", not "worse" — the right way to separate these two is an eval on your own workload.
nvidia
Nemotron 3.5 Super VL (free)
- Blended / 1M
- Free
- Context
- 1M
- Released
- Oct 15, 2026
- Overall score
- Not evaluated
openai
GPT-6.1 Sol
- Blended / 1M
- $4.00
- Context
- 1.1M
- Released
- Sep 29, 2026
- Overall score
- 85.4
Specs and pricing
| Metric | Nemotron 3.5 Super VL (free) | GPT-6.1 Sol |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench overall Mean of the seven LiveBench category scores, 0–100. Higher is better. | — | 85.4 |
| Cost per point Measured benchmark spend divided by overall score — dollars per point of capability. | — | $0.4971 |
| Blended price / 1M 3:1 input:output mix, the usual shape of production traffic. | Freewin | $4.00 |
| Input price / 1M | Freewin | $2.00 |
| Output price / 1M | Freewin | $10.00 |
| Cached input / 1M Price of an input token served from the prompt cache, where the provider publishes one. | — | $0.100 |
| Context window | 1M | 1.1M |
| Max output tokens | 131K | 128K |
Benchmarks by category
An overall score averages away the thing you probably care about. These are the seven LiveBench categories scored separately — Nemotron 3.5 Super VL (free) on top, GPT-6.1 Sol below, both out of 100.
What each one costs to run
Per-token prices are hard to feel. These are monthly list costs for both models across five workload shapes, using each provider's published cached-input rate where there is one.
| Workload | Nemotron 3.5 Super VL (free) | GPT-6.1 Sol |
|---|---|---|
| Support chatbot 1.2K in / 400 out × 200K requests | $0/mo | $1,143/mo |
| RAG assistant 8K in / 600 out × 100K requests | $0/mo | $1,440/mo |
| Coding agent 40K in / 4K out × 20K requests | $0/mo | $1,336/mo |
| Document extraction 20K in / 1.5K out × 50K requests | $0/mo | $2,655/mo |
| Bulk classification 500 in / 20 out × 5M requests | $0/mo | $5,050/mo |
Which should you pick?
You are cost-constrained
Nemotron 3.5 Super VL (free)
Cheaper on blended list price at Free per million tokens.
Nemotron 3.5 Super VL (free) vs GPT-6.1 Sol FAQ
Which is better, Nemotron 3.5 Super VL (free) or GPT-6.1 Sol?
Nemotron 3.5 Super VL (free) is the cheaper of the two; neither can be ranked on quality here. Nemotron 3.5 Super VL (free) does not have a published LiveBench run, so this comparison covers price, context and declared capabilities only. A missing score means "not evaluated", not "worse" — the right way to separate these two is an eval on your own workload.
Is Nemotron 3.5 Super VL (free) cheaper than GPT-6.1 Sol?
Nemotron 3.5 Super VL (free) is cheaper. On a 3:1 input:output blend, Nemotron 3.5 Super VL (free) lists at Free per million tokens and GPT-6.1 Sol at $4.00. Input and output are priced separately — Nemotron 3.5 Super VL (free) charges Free in and Free out, GPT-6.1 Sol charges $2.00 and $10.00 — so the model that looks cheaper flips depending on how output-heavy your workload is.
Does Nemotron 3.5 Super VL (free) or GPT-6.1 Sol have a bigger context window?
They are effectively the same — 1M for Nemotron 3.5 Super VL (free) and 1.1M for GPT-6.1 Sol.
Do Nemotron 3.5 Super VL (free) and GPT-6.1 Sol support prompt caching?
GPT-6.1 Sol publishes a cached-input rate of $0.100 per million tokens against a full input rate of $2.00. The catalogue lists no separate cached rate for Nemotron 3.5 Super VL (free), which means the provider does not price it separately here — not that caching is unavailable.
Related comparisons
How these numbers are produced
- Price — provider list price from OpenRouter, refreshed every 15 minutes. “Blended” is a 3:1 input:output mix.
- Scores — LiveBench release 2026-09-02, using their own category map. Each model shows its strongest published run. A blank means “not evaluated”, never “bad”.
- Cost per point — the measured dollars LiveBench spent on the run, divided by the score it earned.
- “Win” — awarded only past a threshold: one full point on a benchmark score, 10% on a price, 25% on a context window. Anything tighter reports as a tie, because effort settings alone move a LiveBench score by more than that.
Published benchmarks rank models on someone else's tasks. Before committing, see LLM & agent evaluation for building an eval on your own.