Verdict
Built from the measurements below
- Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite is more accurate: 75.0% against 40.0% on the same 80 questions, a 35.0-point gap that is statistically significant.
- Nemotron 3.5 Super VL is 2.7× cheaper per question as billed ($0.0013 vs $0.0034), reasoning tokens included.
- Nemotron 3.5 Super VL generates text 1.7× faster: 715 tokens per second against 409.
- Nemotron 3.5 Super VL starts answering sooner: 0.6 s to the first token, against 1.1 s for Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite.
Which should you choose?
Choose Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite for the most accurate answers of the two and shorter outputs (about 1,311 tokens per question against 2,771). Choose Nemotron 3.5 Super VL for the lower cost per correct answer ($0.0032 against $0.0045), faster streaming, a quicker first token, open weights you can run yourself and more hosts to choose from on OpenRouter (9 against 2). The widest subject gap is in law: Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite answered 4 of 6 correctly, Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 0 of 6. With so few questions per subject, treat this as a lead to test on your own prompts, not a result.
Accuracy gap +35.0 points (z = 4.48). We call a winner only when z is at least 1.96, the usual 95% threshold. Speed, latency and price need a 10% margin.