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Nemotron 3 Ultra vs GPT-5.4 Mini
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.
Effectively the same quality — Nemotron 3 Ultra is the cheaper way to get it.
The two are within 1.0 points overall, which is inside the range that effort settings alone move a LiveBench score, so treat them as quality-equivalent. Nemotron 3 Ultra lists 1.6× cheaper per blended million tokens. When quality ties, cost is the whole decision.
nvidia
Nemotron 3 Ultra
- Blended / 1M
- $1.05
- Context
- 262K
- Released
- Jun 4, 2026
- Overall score
- 67.4
openai
GPT-5.4 Mini
- Blended / 1M
- $1.69
- Context
- 400K
- Released
- Mar 17, 2026
- Overall score
- 66.4
Specs and pricing
| Metric | Nemotron 3 Ultra | GPT-5.4 Mini |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench overall Mean of the seven LiveBench category scores, 0–100. Higher is better. | 67.4 | 66.4 |
| Cost per point Measured benchmark spend divided by overall score — dollars per point of capability. | $0.2118 | $0.1871 |
| Blended price / 1M 3:1 input:output mix, the usual shape of production traffic. | $1.05win | $1.69 |
| Input price / 1M | $0.600win | $0.750 |
| Output price / 1M | $2.40win | $4.50 |
| Cached input / 1M Price of an input token served from the prompt cache, where the provider publishes one. | $0.120 | $0.075win |
| Context window | 262K | 400Kwin |
| Max output tokens | 183Kwin | 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 Ultra on top, GPT-5.4 Mini 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 Ultra | GPT-5.4 Mini |
|---|---|---|
| Support chatbot 1.2K in / 400 out × 200K requests | $301.44/mo | $491.40/mo |
| RAG assistant 8K in / 600 out × 100K requests | $432.00/mo | $600.00/mo |
| Coding agent 40K in / 4K out × 20K requests | $403.20/mo | $582.00/mo |
| Document extraction 20K in / 1.5K out × 50K requests | $756.00/mo | $1,054/mo |
| Bulk classification 500 in / 20 out × 5M requests | $1,500/mo | $1,988/mo |
Which should you pick?
The workload is coding or agentic work
GPT-5.4 Mini
Leads on agentic coding — 41.7 against 38.7.
You need to fit large documents in one call
GPT-5.4 Mini
Wider context window — 400K against 262K.
You are cost-constrained
Nemotron 3 Ultra
Cheaper on blended list price at $1.05 per million tokens.
Nemotron 3 Ultra vs GPT-5.4 Mini FAQ
Which is better, Nemotron 3 Ultra or GPT-5.4 Mini?
Effectively the same quality — Nemotron 3 Ultra is the cheaper way to get it. The two are within 1.0 points overall, which is inside the range that effort settings alone move a LiveBench score, so treat them as quality-equivalent. Nemotron 3 Ultra lists 1.6× cheaper per blended million tokens. When quality ties, cost is the whole decision.
Is Nemotron 3 Ultra cheaper than GPT-5.4 Mini?
Nemotron 3 Ultra is cheaper. On a 3:1 input:output blend, Nemotron 3 Ultra lists at $1.05 per million tokens and GPT-5.4 Mini at $1.69 — Nemotron 3 Ultra is 1.6× cheaper. Input and output are priced separately — Nemotron 3 Ultra charges $0.600 in and $2.40 out, GPT-5.4 Mini charges $0.750 and $4.50 — so the model that looks cheaper flips depending on how output-heavy your workload is.
Nemotron 3 Ultra vs GPT-5.4 Mini: which scores higher on benchmarks?
Nemotron 3 Ultra scores 67.4 and GPT-5.4 Mini scores 66.4 overall on LiveBench, the mean of its seven categories. That gap is inside the range that effort settings alone move a score, so treat them as equivalent on published quality. Category scores differ from the overall figure — a model can lead on reasoning and trail on coding, which the per-category table above breaks out.
Which gives better value for money, Nemotron 3 Ultra or GPT-5.4 Mini?
They are close. Nemotron 3 Ultra costs $0.2118 per point of overall capability and GPT-5.4 Mini costs $0.1871, a difference small enough that workload shape will matter more than the rate.
Does Nemotron 3 Ultra or GPT-5.4 Mini have a bigger context window?
GPT-5.4 Mini has the larger context window: 262K for Nemotron 3 Ultra against 400K for GPT-5.4 Mini. Note that a window you can fill is not a window you should fill — retrieval quality usually degrades well before the limit, and you pay for every token you put in it.
Do Nemotron 3 Ultra and GPT-5.4 Mini support prompt caching?
Both publish a cached-input rate: $0.120 per million for Nemotron 3 Ultra and $0.075 for GPT-5.4 Mini, against full input rates of $0.600 and $0.750. On a workload with a long stable prefix — a system prompt, a tool schema, a retrieved corpus — that changes the economics more than the headline price does.
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 2026-06-25, 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.