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Llama 3.3 70B Instruct vs Llama 3.3 Nemotron 70B Edit

Llama 3.3 70B Instruct (Meta) and Llama 3.3 Nemotron 70B Edit (NVIDIA) compared on the ModelCap Index, API price, context window, provider availability, weight access and every public benchmark board they share. Figures are the same ones shown on the live rankings; nothing here is a hidden score.

Snapshot as of 19 September 2026

As of 19 September 2026, Llama 3.3 70B Instruct holds the stronger ModelCap Index position (#168 vs #171).

Which should you choose?

Choose Llama 3.3 70B Instruct if…

  • you want the stronger overall ModelCap Index position — #168 against #171 (24.8 vs 23.6 points).
  • you want provider choice — 10 listed API providers against 0.

Choose Llama 3.3 Nemotron 70B Edit if…

  • you want the more recently listed model — Llama 3.3 Nemotron 70B Edit was listed 14 March 2025, Llama 3.3 70B Instruct 6 December 2024.

Llama 3.3 70B Instruct vs Llama 3.3 Nemotron 70B Edit: specs, pricing and context

Specification comparison of Llama 3.3 70B Instruct and Llama 3.3 Nemotron 70B Edit
FieldLlama 3.3 70B InstructMetaLlama 3.3 Nemotron 70B EditNVIDIA
ModelCap Index position#168#171
Index score24.823.6
EvidenceMeasuredInherited
Input price / 1M tokens$0.10Unlisted
Output price / 1M tokens$0.32Unlisted
Context window131K tokens— tokens
Max output tokens16K—
API providers listed100
Weight accessGated accessRestricted license
Input modalitiesTextText
First listed6 December 202414 March 2025
PublisherMetaNVIDIA

Evidence: 2 public benchmark observations across 2 boards · finetune of meta-llama/llama-3.3-70b-instruct · finetune (100%). Prices are the lowest listed API offer per million tokens observed on the OpenRouter catalogue.

Benchmark scores: Llama 3.3 70B Instruct vs Llama 3.3 Nemotron 70B Edit

Public benchmark boards where Llama 3.3 70B Instruct or Llama 3.3 Nemotron 70B Edit has a published result
BoardLlama 3.3 70B InstructLlama 3.3 Nemotron 70B EditLeads
Arena codingArena (LMArena)13461339–1353—Only one result
BFCL V4UC Berkeley (Gorilla)31.9Function calling—Only one result

Scores are the sources' own published figures for each model's best evaluated configuration; ModelCap never re-runs a benchmark.

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Llama 3.3 70B Instruct vs Llama 3.3 Nemotron 70B Edit: common questions

Is Llama 3.3 70B Instruct better than Llama 3.3 Nemotron 70B Edit?

Llama 3.3 70B Instruct ranks higher on the ModelCap Index as of 19 September 2026: #168 against #171. That is a capability ranking built from public benchmark evidence with published uncertainty; whether it is "better" for you also depends on price, context and where you can run it. Their published uncertainty intervals overlap, so the rank difference alone does not establish a reliable capability advantage for your workload.

Is Llama 3.3 70B Instruct cheaper than Llama 3.3 Nemotron 70B Edit?

At least one of the two has no listed API price on ModelCap right now, so no price comparison is made.

Which has the bigger context window, Llama 3.3 70B Instruct or Llama 3.3 Nemotron 70B Edit?

Both publish a 131K-token context window.

Which is better for coding, Llama 3.3 70B Instruct or Llama 3.3 Nemotron 70B Edit?

The two models do not share a coding benchmark board on ModelCap yet, so no head-to-head coding score is published; the ModelCap Index position is the closest overall signal.

Are Llama 3.3 70B Instruct and Llama 3.3 Nemotron 70B Edit open-weight models?

Llama 3.3 70B Instruct: Gated access. Llama 3.3 Nemotron 70B Edit: Restricted license. Open weights mean the checkpoint can be downloaded and self-hosted under its licence; API-only models are available solely through hosted endpoints.

Where can I run Llama 3.3 70B Instruct and Llama 3.3 Nemotron 70B Edit?

ModelCap currently lists 10 API providers for Llama 3.3 70B Instruct and 0 for Llama 3.3 Nemotron 70B Edit, from the OpenRouter catalogue snapshot the site serves; each model page lists the providers and their prices.

How current is this Llama 3.3 70B Instruct vs Llama 3.3 Nemotron 70B Edit comparison?

Every figure comes from the sealed ModelCap dataset published 19 September 2026; the page re-renders within a minute of each data refresh, and the ModelCap Index positions are the same ones shown on the live rankings.

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