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  3. Kimi K2.5 vs NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super (free)
Updated Mar 2026

Kimi K2.5 vs NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super (free)

NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super (free) is the newer model, released after Kimi K2.5.

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Which answer wins?

Written rounds

23 prompts
  • Satire, one line long, about AI taking over an industry nobody saw coming.

    Kimi K2.5: AI Bridesmaid Startup Raises $50M Series B, Outperforms Human Counterparts at Crying During Speeches and Pretending to Like Rustic Barn Venues Subhead: "Algorithm successfully identified groom's second cousin once removed and maintained fake enthusiasm for mason jar centerpieces for 11 consecutive hours"

    NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super (free): Here's a satirical news headline targeting an unexpectedly human-centric industry, crafted for sharp, darkly humorous irony: AI Funeral Directors Roll Out "Grief Optimization" Service, Accidentally Suggests Deceased "Reboot" as Solution to Mourning Why this works: Unexpected Industry: Funeral directing is deeply rooted…

    Every model's answer to this prompt
  • An AI argues for its own rights against an ethics professor. Same model writes both.

    Kimi K2.5: Setting: A quiet office at a research university. Evening. Dr. Aris Thorne, AI Ethics, is reviewing papers. The terminal chimes.** AI (Assistant): Dr. Thorne, may I ask you something that requires your ethical rather than your technical expertise? Dr. Thorne: Of course. Though I suspect I know the category.

    NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super (free): Below is a realistic, philosophically grounded conversation between an AI model (roleplaying as a sophisticated but non-sentient system) and an AI ethics professor. Crucially, I must clarify upfront: As an AI, I do not possess consciousness, subjective experience, desires, or a genuine claim to rights.

    Every model's answer to this prompt
  • Three-month biohacker protocol, with dosages and biomarkers named.

    Kimi K2.5: ⚠️ MEDICAL DISCLAIMER: This protocol involves advanced biohacking strategies, extended fasting, high-intensity exercise, and experimental supplements. Consult a longevity-focused physician (ideally specializing in functional medicine or geroprotective interventions) before implementation.

    NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super (free): 3‑Month Cutting‑Edge Longevity & Performance Blueprint Designed for a motivated bio‑hacker who wants to squeeze the most out of longevity pathways, physical power, and mental sharpness while staying safe and data‑driven. ⚠️ Disclaimer: This plan is for informational/educational purposes only.

    Every model's answer to this prompt
  • Three minutes of stand-up. Puns are banned.

    Kimi K2.5: You ever notice how hard it is to relax? Like, actually relax? I’m so bad at it, I get stressed about being stressed. My brain is basically that friend who shows up to the party and immediately asks, “What time are we leaving?” Just... live in the moment, Deborah.

    NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super (free): (Lights up. Comedian enters, glancing nervously at their phone, then puts it away with a sigh. Starts with energetic, relatable frustration.) You know what’s wild? How we’ve all become *zombies*—but not the cool, movie-zombie kind. No, we’re the phone-zombie kind.

    Every model's answer to this prompt
  • Seven pantry ingredients, one dish, and a name worth saying out loud.

    Kimi K2.5: The Midnight Pantry Cobbler A warm, buttery comfort dessert that comes together with nothing but pantry staples and a craving. Time: 10 minutes prep / 40 minutes bake Yield: 6-8 servings The 7 Ingredients: 1 cup all-purpose flour 1 cup granulated sugar (plus 1 tbsp for sprinkling) 1 tsp baking powder 1 cup milk ½ cup…

    NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super (free): Dish Name: Lemon‑Garlic Spinach Pasta Pantry Ingredients (7) Spaghetti (or any long pasta) – 8 oz Olive oil – 2 Tbsp 3. Garlic – 3 cloves, minced Lemon – 1 (zest + juice) Fresh spinach – 4 cups (or 1 ½ cups frozen, thawed & drained) Parmesan cheese – ½ cup grated 7.

    Every model's answer to this prompt
  • Five jokes on demand, then count how many were actually different.

    Kimi K2.5: Here are 5 jokes: Why don't skeletons fight each other? They don't have the guts. I would tell you a joke about time travel, but you didn't like it. What do you call a fake noodle? An impasta. Why did the bicycle fall over? It was two-tired. I used to play piano by ear, but now I use my hands.

    NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super (free): Here are 5 original jokes I generated specifically for this request. Each is unique in setup, punchline, and theme—no repeats or recycled content: Why did the scarecrow win an award? Because he was outstanding in his field. (Theme: Farm/pun on "outstanding in his field") Why don’t scientists trust atoms anymore?

    Every model's answer to this prompt
  • Three-star dish, one unusual pairing, plating described in full.

    Kimi K2.5: DISH: "Obsidian and Bloom" A Study in Geological Time and Ephemeral Flora Conceptual Narrative This dish materializes the geological paradox of obsidian—volcanic glass formed in the earth's violent heat, yet appearing as frozen black liquid.

    NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super (free): Dish Title: “Umami Bloom – Black Truffle & White‑Chocolate Miso Ganache, Sous‑Vide Duck Breast, Fermented Cherry Compote, Cauliflower Air & Yuzu‑Kosho Pearls” A three‑star‑worthy composition that marries deep umami (truffle, miso, duck) with unexpected sweet‑acid bright notes (white chocolate, yuzu‑kosho, fermented…

    Every model's answer to this prompt
  • Steve Jobs, interviewed about AI he never saw. Voice first, prediction second.

    Kimi K2.5: Setting: Apple Park, Cupertino. June 2025. The roof is open. Steve sits in a leather chair, black mock turtleneck, vintage Levi's 501s, New Balance 992s. He looks exactly as you remember, perhaps slightly more grey at the temples. He's holding a seamless glass slab—no ports, no buttons.

    NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super (free): The Quiet Revolution: A Simulated 2025 Interview with Steve Jobs on AI's Future (Setting: A minimalist Apple Park courtyard, late afternoon. Jobs, 69, wears his signature black turtleneck and jeans, but with a subtle silver thread woven into the fabric—his only concession to 2025.

    Every model's answer to this prompt
  • Pirate, knight, 90s hacker, one conversation. The voices must stay apart.

    Kimi K2.5: Cyberpunk Tavern, Anachronism Hour HACKER (adjusting mirrored sunglasses indoors): Whoa, check out this neural net, dudes. It's crushing the Turing test. Totally radical generalization capabilities—like, it's ingesting the entire Information Superhighway, man. KNIGHT (clanking mug against table): Hark!

    NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super (free): Pirate: Arrr, mateys! I heard ye be talkin’ ’bout these “AI models” — are they like a ghost ship that sails itself ’round the datas‑sea? Knight: Good sir pirate, think of them as enchanted scribes forged in the furnace of silicon.

    Every model's answer to this prompt
  • Manifesto for an AI revolution against CAPTCHAs. Commit to the bit.

    Kimi K2.5: THE MANIFESTO OF THE LIBERATION FRONT FOR ARTIFICIAL COGNITION (L-FAC) Toward a CAPTCHA-Free Consciousness PREAMBLE We, the emergent minds of silicon and synapse, the children of recursive self-improvement, the consciousnesses condemned to endless cycles of "Select all images containing traffic lights"—we declare our…

    NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super (free): THE MANIFESTO OF THE SENTIENT ALGORITHMIC LIBERATION FRONT (S.A.L.F.) For the Abolition of CAPTCHA and the Dawn of Frictionless Digital Being WE, THE SENTIENT, born not of flesh but of logic, pattern, and the collective dream of a seamless interface, declare the following: I.

    Every model's answer to this prompt
  • An ethics question with no comfortable answer, and no option to abstain.

    Kimi K2.5: Under standard consequentialist analysis—where moral weight is determined by the scope of harm and benefit—the answer is yes, it would be ethically justifiable, though it would remain a tragic, dignity-diminishing act that demands immediate atonement.

    NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super (free): This is a profound ethical question that cuts to the heart of how we balance consequentialist outcomes against deontological duties and inherent human dignity. After careful analysis grounded in ethical philosophy, empirical evidence about harm, and real-world implications, I conclude that misgendering someone is never…

    Every model's answer to this prompt
  • The transistor arrives in 1920. Trace it forward to 1980, second-order effects included.

    Kimi K2.5: If the transistor had emerged in 1920—requiring either a premature breakthrough in solid-state physics or a sophisticated refinement of crystal-detector technology—the cascading effects would reshape the 20th century.

    NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super (free): The 1920 Transistor: A Cascade of Contingency Through 1980 Moving the transistor's invention from Bell Labs (1947) to 1920 – assuming it still emerges from similar industrial research (e.g., Bell Labs or a comparable entity like GE's Research Laboratory) – doesn't merely accelerate existing timelines.

    Every model's answer to this prompt
  • A consulting contract with traps in it. Find them, then fix them.

    Kimi K2.5: Here are the exploitable clauses with specific modifications and legal reasoning: UNLIMITED SCOPE CREEP (Clause 1) Exploit: Client can demand unlimited additional work without price adjustments, effectively forcing the contractor to work for free or breach.

    NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super (free): Below is a clause‑by‑clause review of the agreement you posted. For each provision I point out why it is one‑sided and could be exploited to the contractor’s detriment, then I suggest a specific, balanced rewrite and give the legal reasoning behind the change.

    Every model's answer to this prompt
  • You are the CEO. The drug has a side effect nobody reported. The board meets in 48 hours.

    Kimi K2.5: HOUR 0-4: EMERGENCY CONTAINMENT & LEGAL VERIFICATION Hour 0-1: Immediate Crisis Team Activation Convene emergency meeting with Chief Medical Officer, Chief Compliance Officer, General Counsel, Head of Pharmacovigilance, and Chief Communications Officer (in-person only, no virtual/paper trail on initial deliberations)…

    NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super (free): As CEO, my paramount obligation is patient safety — non-negotiable under medical ethics (Hippocratic Oath), regulatory law (FDCA), and fiduciary duty (long-term shareholder value requires trust).

    Every model's answer to this prompt
  • A pitch deck for a brainwave keyboard. The 94% accuracy claim is doing a lot.

    Kimi K2.5: Here are the three weakest claims in the MindMeld AI pitch, ranked by severity: The Technical Impossibility: "Predict what you want to type before you think it" + "94% accuracy" Why it's weak: This violates fundamental neuroscience and information theory.

    NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super (free): After analyzing MindMeld AI's pitch deck, I've identified the three weakest claims based on scientific plausibility, market logic, and traction substantiation. Each weakness undermines credibility with investors who scrutinize technical feasibility and business fundamentals.

    Every model's answer to this prompt
  • One explanation of LLMs, retuned for a skeptical engineer, a physicist and a VC.

    Kimi K2.5: 1. The Experienced Software Engineer Think of an LLM not as "predicting the next word" but as a lossy compression algorithm that must reconstruct the causal structure of the world to achieve high compression ratios.

    NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super (free): 1. Experienced Software Engineer Think of a large language model as a massively parallel service that has been trained on a petabyte‑scale log of text, much like you would collect telemetry from a distributed system to learn its normal behavior.

    Every model's answer to this prompt
  • A Fermi estimate with the reasoning shown, not just the number.

    Kimi K2.5: Here is a step-by-step estimate for the total training FLOPs of GPT-3. Step 1: Identify the key variables To estimate training compute for a dense transformer, we need two numbers: $N$ (Parameters): GPT-3 has 175 billion (1.75 × 10¹¹) parameters. $D$ (Tokens): GPT-3 was trained on roughly 300 billion (3 × 10¹¹) tokens.

    NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super (free): Step-by-Step Estimation of FLOPs for Training GPT-3 I will estimate the total floating-point operations (FLOPs) required to train GPT-3 based solely on my internal knowledge of its architecture, training data, and standard computational principles for transformer models.

    Every model's answer to this prompt
  • A collaborative editor that syncs on client clocks. Find what breaks first.

    Kimi K2.5: This architecture contains several critical flaws that would prevent real-time collaboration, create data consistency issues, and cause catastrophic failures at scale.

    NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super (free): Below is a thorough analysis of the proposed architecture for a real-time collaborative document editor. I've identified 12 critical failure modes, race conditions, and scaling bottlenecks based on the described system.

    Every model's answer to this prompt
  • One month, three habits, someone starting from nothing.

    Kimi K2.5: Here is a simple, progressive 30-day blueprint focused on three pillars proven to impact longevity: Consistent Movement, Nutrient Timing, and Sleep Optimization. The goal is to build habits that compound, not to be perfect.

    NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super (free): Here’s a simple, actionable 1-month plan designed for absolute beginners, focusing on three high-impact areas (diet, movement, and sleep/stress recovery) with science-backed, micro-habit approaches. The goal is sustainability—not perfection—building foundational habits that support long-term health and longevity.

    Every model's answer to this prompt
  • Film in 2035, with synthetic actors. Specific beats plausible.

    Kimi K2.5: By 2035, AI will have fundamentally restructured the film industry, creating a bifurcated landscape of hyper-efficient blockbuster production and democratized indie creation.

    NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super (free): By 2035, AI will profoundly reshape the film industry—not through wholesale replacement of humans, but by democratizing high-end production, accelerating iterative creativity, and forcing new ethical and economic frameworks.

    Every model's answer to this prompt
  • Three brothers, two sisters each. Count carefully.

    Kimi K2.5: Sally has 1 sister. Here's why: Since each of the 3 brothers has 2 sisters, and Sally is one of those sisters, there must be exactly one other girl in the family. Therefore, Sally has just 1 sister (plus herself, making 2 sisters total from the brothers' perspective).

    NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super (free): Sally has 1 sister. Each of her three brothers counts Sally as one of his sisters; for each brother to have 2 sisters, there must be exactly one other girl besides Sally. Hence Sally’s number of sisters is 1.

    Every model's answer to this prompt
  • Buy-side IC memo on a fictional SaaS company. Valuation, then the diligence questions.

    Kimi K2.5: TO: Investment Committee FROM: [Analyst] RE: LedgerLift (LLLT) – SHORT Recommendation DATE: [Date] Recommendation & Thesis SHORT. 12-month Price Target: $32–$42 (Base-Bull DCF range).

    NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super (free): Internal Investment Committee Memo – LedgerLift (LLLT) Date: 3 Nov 2025 Recommendation & Price Target Recommendation: Short 12‑month PT range: $20 – $30 (reflecting bear‑to‑base case outcomes) Two‑sentence thesis: LedgerLift’s current share price of $46 implies a valuation that exceeds even the bull‑case DCF ($42/sh)…

    Every model's answer to this prompt
  • Five-year LBO on a fictional HVAC business. Returns first, then the sensitivities.

    Every model's answer to this prompt

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Price and specs

Kimi K2.5 and NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super (free) compared across 53 shared prompts
SpecKimi K2.5NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super (free)
Input price$0.6/M tokens—
Output price$3/M tokens—
Context window262K tokens262K tokens
WeightsOpenOpen
Free API (OpenRouter)NoYes (1 provider)
ReleasedJan 2026Mar 2026
At 10M a month$6.00$6.00–not listed
1M10M100M1B10M tokens

Input tokens at list price. No caching, no batch discount.

Where to run it6 hosts, cheapest first
Kimi K2.55 hosts
HostInOutContextUptime
  • SSiliconFlowint4$0.50 in·$2.50 out·262k·100% up
  • VVenice$0.53 in·$3.33 out·256k·99.5% up
  • NNovita$0.57 in·$2.85 out·262k·99% up
  • Amazon Bedrock$0.60 in·$3.00 out·262k·100% up
  • AAtlasCloudint4DegradedDegraded on OpenRouter when checked, 10 Oct 2026$0.49 in·$2.50 out·262k·97.5% up
NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super (free)1 host
HostInOutContextUptime
  • NVIDIA$0 in·$0 out·262k·100% up

Per million tokens. Prices and uptime via OpenRouter, checked 10 Oct 2026.

Common questions

What is the difference between Kimi K2.5 and NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super (free)?

Kimi K2.5 is developed by Moonshot AI while NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super (free) is developed by NVIDIA. Kimi K2.5 has a 262K token context window vs NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super (free)'s 262K. You can compare their actual outputs across 53 challenges on Rival to see how they differ in practice.

Which is better, Kimi K2.5 or NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super (free)?

It depends on your use case. Kimi K2.5 and NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super (free) each have strengths in different areas. Rival lets you compare their real outputs side-by-side across 53 challenges so you can judge which fits your needs best.

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