Nebius: Models Intelligence, Performance & Price

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Analysis of Nebius's models across key metrics including quality, price, output speed, latency, context window & more. This analysis is intended to support you in choosing the best model provided by Nebius for your use-case.

Most Intelligent

#1
Kimi K3 (max)
Kimi K3 (max)
60
#2
GLM-5.2 (max) (FP4)
GLM-5.2 (max) (FP4)
53
#3
DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 (max)
DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 (max)
52
#4
MiniMax-M3 (FP8)
MiniMax-M3 (FP8)
45
#5
DeepSeek V4 Pro (max)
DeepSeek V4 Pro (max)
45

Intelligence index

Total 35 models

Fastest

#1
Nemotron 3 Ultra
Nemotron 3 Ultra
453 t/s
#2
Nemotron 3 Super
Nemotron 3 Super
386 t/s
#3
Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3B (FP8)
Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3B (FP8)
324 t/s
#4
gpt-oss-120b (high) (Base)
gpt-oss-120b (high) (Base)
320 t/s
#5
DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 (max)
DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 (max)
313 t/s

Output speed

Total 35 models

Lowest Price

#1
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (BF16)
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (BF16)
$0.08
#2
Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3B (FP8)
Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3B (FP8)
$0.08
#3
Nemotron 3 Nano
Nemotron 3 Nano
$0.08
#4
Qwen3 32B Base
Qwen3 32B Base
$0.12
#5
Qwen3 30B A3B 2507
Qwen3 30B A3B 2507
$0.12

Blended price (per 1M tokens)

Total 35 models

Indicates a reasoning model

Nebius offers 35 models, each with different intelligence, performance, and pricing characteristics. Below is a comparison of the key metrics across models.

  • For intelligence, the top models on Nebius are Kimi K3 (max) (60), GLM-5.2 (max) (FP4) (53), and DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 (max) (52).
  • For output speed, the fastest models are Nemotron 3 Ultra (453 t/s), Nemotron 3 Super (386 t/s), and Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3B (FP8) (324 t/s).
  • For latency, Qwen3 30B A3B 2507 (1.08s), GLM-5.2 (FP4) (1.12s), and Hermes 4 70B (FP8) (1.37s) offer the lowest time to first answer token.
  • For pricing, Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (BF16) ($0.08), Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3B (FP8) ($0.08), and Nemotron 3 Nano ($0.08) offer the lowest blended prices per 1M tokens.
  • For context window size, MiniMax-M3 (FP8) (1M), Kimi K3 (max) (1M), and DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 (max) (1M) support the largest context windows on Nebius.

Highlights

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index · Higher is better
Output tokens per second · Higher is better
USD per 1M tokens (blended) · Lower is better

Intelligence Evaluations

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.1.1 incorporates 9 evaluations: GDPval-AA v2, 𝜏³-Banking, Terminal-Bench v2.1, SciCode, Humanity's Last Exam, GPQA Diamond, CritPt, AA-Omniscience, AA-LCR
Estimate (independent evaluation forthcoming)
Reasoning models are indicated by a lightbulb icon

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.1.1 includes: GDPval-AA v2, 𝜏³-Banking, Terminal-Bench v2.1, SciCode, Humanity's Last Exam, GPQA Diamond, CritPt, AA-Omniscience, AA-LCR. See Intelligence Index methodology for further details, including a breakdown of each evaluation and how we run them.

Intelligence Evaluations

Intelligence evaluations measured independently by Artificial Analysis · Higher is better
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Agentic real-world work tasks, (Elo-500)/2000

Agentic tool use

Agentic coding & terminal use

Coding

Reasoning & knowledge

Scientific reasoning

Physics reasoning

Knowledge

1 - hallucination rate

AA-LCRUpdated

Long context reasoning

Agentic knowledge work, Elo

Agentic SaaS workflows

Legal agentic work, criterion pass rate

Agentic business operations

Quantitative analysis on spreadsheets & documents

Instruction following

Long-horizon agentic tasks

Kubernetes incident root-cause analysis

Visual reasoning

Reasoning models are indicated by a lightbulb icon

While model intelligence generally translates across use cases, specific evaluations may be more relevant for certain use cases.

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.1.1 includes: GDPval-AA v2, 𝜏³-Banking, Terminal-Bench v2.1, SciCode, Humanity's Last Exam, GPQA Diamond, CritPt, AA-Omniscience, AA-LCR. See Intelligence Index methodology for further details, including a breakdown of each evaluation and how we run them.

Intelligence Index vs. Price

Blended at 7:2:1 (cache-input-output) · USD per 1M tokens (blended)
Most attractive quadrant
Pareto line
Reasoning models are indicated by a lightbulb icon

While higher intelligence models are typically more expensive, they do not all follow the same price-quality curve.

Context Window

Context Window

Context window: tokens limit · Higher is better
Reasoning models are indicated by a lightbulb icon

Larger context windows are relevant to RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) LLM workflows which typically involve reasoning and information retrieval of large amounts of data.

Maximum number of combined input & output tokens. Output tokens commonly have a significantly lower limit (varied by model).

Pricing

Intelligence Index vs. Price

Blended at 7:2:1 (cache-input-output) · USD per 1M tokens (blended)
Most attractive quadrant
Pareto line
Reasoning models are indicated by a lightbulb icon

While higher intelligence models are typically more expensive, they do not all follow the same price-quality curve.

Performance Summary

Output Speed vs. Price

Output speed: output tokens per second · USD per 1M tokens (blended)
Most attractive quadrant
Pareto line
Reasoning models are indicated by a lightbulb icon

Tokens per second received while the model is generating tokens (ie. after first chunk has been received from the API for models which support streaming).

Price per token, shown in USD per million tokens. Price is a blend of cache hit, input, and output token prices using the selected ratio (default 7:2:1 cache-input-output).

Speed

Measured by Output Speed (tokens per second)

Output Speed

Output tokens per second · Higher is better
Reasoning models are indicated by a lightbulb icon

Tokens per second received while the model is generating tokens (ie. after first chunk has been received from the API for models which support streaming).

Figures represent performance of the model's first-party API (e.g. OpenAI for o1) or the median across providers where a first-party API is not available (e.g. Meta's Llama models).

Latency

Measured by Time (seconds) to First Token

Latency: Time To First Answer Token

Seconds to first answer token received · Accounts for reasoning model 'thinking' time
Reasoning models are indicated by a lightbulb icon

Time to first answer token received, in seconds, after API request sent. For reasoning models, this includes the 'thinking' time of the model before providing an answer. For models which do not support streaming, this represents time to receive the completion.

End-to-End Response Time

Seconds to output 500 tokens, calculated based on time to first token, 'thinking' time for reasoning models, and output speed

End-to-End Response Time vs. Price

End-to-end response time: end-to-end seconds to output 500 tokens · USD per 1M tokens (blended)
Most attractive quadrant
Pareto line
Reasoning models are indicated by a lightbulb icon

Price per token, shown in USD per million tokens. Price is a blend of cache hit, input, and output token prices using the selected ratio (default 7:2:1 cache-input-output).

Further Analysis
Kimi logo
Kimi K3 (max)
1.05M
Open
60
$3.11
144
1.56
18.88
13.86
Z AI logo
GLM-5.2 (max) (FP4)
432k
Open
53
$1.06
165
1.17
16.31
12.12
DeepSeek logo
DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 (max)
1.05M
Open
52
$0.20
313
1.74
9.72
6.39
MiniMax logo
MiniMax-M3 (FP8)
1.05M
Open
45
$0.45
191
1.95
15.07
10.50
DeepSeek logo
DeepSeek V4 Pro (max)
1M
Open
45
$0.90
140
1.32
36.21
31.31
Kimi logo
Kimi K2.6
262k
Open
45
$0.76
247
1.94
22.02
18.06
DeepSeek logo
DeepSeek V4 Pro (high)
1M
Open
44
$0.94
131
1.46
20.45
15.18
Kimi logo
Kimi K2.7 Code (FP4)
256k
Open
43
$0.64
246
1.73
12.80
9.05
Z AI logo
GLM-5.1 (FP8, Base)
200k
Open
41
$0.58
30
1.86
145.09
126.55
NVIDIA logo
Nemotron 3 Ultra
256k
Open
38
$0.60
453
2.29
8.42
5.03
Z AI logo
GLM-5.1 (FP8, Base)
200k
Open
36*
--
33
1.80
17.09
--
Kimi logo
Kimi K2.6
262k
Open
35*
--
222
1.88
4.14
--
Z AI logo
GLM-5.2 (FP4)
432k
Open
35
--
143
1.12
4.61
--
MiniMax logo
MiniMax-M2.5 (FP4)
196k
Open
34*
--
82
1.77
32.42
24.52
Alibaba logo
Qwen3.5 397B A17B (Base, FP4)
262k
Open
34
$0.36
128
2.02
30.81
24.89
Alibaba logo
Qwen3.5 397B A17B (Base, FP4)
262k
Open
33*
--
136
2.01
5.67
--
DeepSeek logo
DeepSeek V4 Pro
1.05M
Open
32*
--
150
1.48
4.81
--
NVIDIA logo
Nemotron 3 Super
256k
Open
26
$0.33
386
1.85
8.32
5.18
OpenAI logo
gpt-oss-120b (high) (Base)
128k
Open
24
$0.07
320
1.04
8.86
6.26
NVIDIA logo
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (BF16)
1.05M
Open
24
$0.07
274
1.75
10.87
7.30
Alibaba logo
Qwen3 235B 2507
262k
Open
18*
--
65
1.44
9.14
--
Alibaba logo
Qwen3 Next 80B A3B (FP8)
262k
Open
17
$0.04
98
1.16
26.70
20.43
NVIDIA logo
Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3B (FP8)
65.5k
Open
15*
--
324
1.02
8.73
6.17
OpenAI logo
gpt-oss-120b (low) Base
128k
Open
15
$0.02
286
1.00
9.75
7.00
NVIDIA logo
Nemotron 3 Nano
262k
Open
15
$0.03
308
1.10
9.21
6.49
Alibaba logo
Qwen3 32B Base
32.8k
Open
11
--
27
1.92
93.68
73.41
Nous Research logo
Hermes 4 70B (FP8)
128k
Open
10*
--
74
1.47
35.33
27.09
Meta logo
Llama 3.3 70B Base
128k
Open
9*
--
7
10.14
80.41
--
NVIDIA logo
Llama Nemotron Ultra Base
131k
Open
9*
--
52
2.33
50.38
38.44
Alibaba logo
Qwen3 30B A3B 2507
262k
Open
9*
--
57
1.08
9.79
--
Nous Research logo
Hermes 4 405B (FP8)
128k
Open
9*
--
33
2.59
79.39
61.44
Nous Research logo
Hermes 4 405B (FP8)
128k
Open
9*
--
35
2.42
16.91
--
Alibaba logo
Qwen3 32B Base
32.8k
Open
8*
--
26
1.82
20.71
--
Google logo
Gemma 3 27B (FP8)
110k
Open
7
$0.09
54
2.99
12.30
--
Nous Research logo
Hermes 4 70B (FP8)
128k
Open
7*
--
74
1.37
8.16
--

Key definitions

Maximum number of combined input & output tokens. Output tokens commonly have a significantly lower limit (varied by model).

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about Nebius

The most intelligent model available on Nebius is Kimi K3 (max) with an Intelligence Index score of 60.

The fastest model on Nebius by output speed is Nemotron 3 Ultra at 452.6 tokens per second.

The model with the lowest time to first answer token on Nebius is Qwen3 30B A3B 2507 at 1.08s. Lower latency means faster initial response time.

The most affordable model on Nebius by blended price is Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (BF16) at $0.08 per 1M tokens (7:2:1 cache hit/input/output ratio).

Prices on Nebius vary up to 54x across models, from $0.08 per 1M tokens for Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (BF16) to $4.20 per 1M tokens for Kimi K3 (max).

Yes, Nebius offers an OpenAI-compatible API, making it easy to switch from OpenAI or use existing OpenAI SDK integrations.

Yes, all 35 models on Nebius support JSON mode for structured output.

Yes, all 35 models on Nebius support function calling (tool use).

Yes, all 35 models on Nebius are open weight models.

Yes, provider performance can vary over time due to infrastructure changes, load balancing, and updates. We continuously benchmark all providers and display historical performance trends in the "Over Time" charts.

When choosing a model on Nebius, consider: intelligence (for quality-sensitive tasks), output speed (for throughput-intensive tasks), latency (for interactive applications requiring quick first responses), pricing (for cost-sensitive workloads), and features like context window size, JSON mode, or function calling support.