Kimi K3 vs NVIDIA Nemotron Nano 9B V2
Compare Kimi K3 by Moonshot AI against NVIDIA Nemotron Nano 9B V2 by NVIDIA, context windows of 1.0M vs 131K, tested across 54 shared challenges.
Our Verdict
Kimi K3
NVIDIA Nemotron Nano 9B V2Runner-up
No community votes yet. On paper, Kimi K3 has the edge — bigger model tier, newer, bigger context window.
NVIDIA Nemotron Nano 9B V2 is 94x cheaper per token — worth considering if cost matters.
Slight edge
API pricing
Cost per 1M tokens
Kimi K3
Input
$3.00
Output
$15.00
NVIDIA Nemotron Nano 9B V2
Input
$0.04
75× cheaper
Output
$0.16
94× cheaper
NVIDIA Nemotron Nano 9B V2 is cheaper on both — 75× input, 94× output
Writing DNA
Style Comparison
Similarity
28%
Kimi K3 uses 13.1x more emoji
Kimi K3
NVIDIA Nemotron Nano 9B V2
58%Vocabulary51%
21wSentence Length16w
0.46Hedging1.01
3.6Bold6.3
3.4Lists5.2
0.78Emoji0.06
0.89Headings0.74
0.17Transitions0.22
Based on 27 + 22 text responses
Research
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