Head-to-head comparison
Nemotron Nano 9B V2 (NVIDIA) and Qwen2.5 72B Instruct (Qwen) 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 18 August 2026
As of 18 August 2026, Qwen2.5 72B Instruct holds the stronger ModelCap Index position (#178 vs #215); Nemotron Nano 9B V2 is cheaper per output token (Free/1M vs $0.40/1M); and Nemotron Nano 9B V2 offers the longer context window (128K vs 33K tokens).
Evidence: 1 public benchmark observation across 1 board · 3 public benchmark observations across 3 boards. Prices are the lowest listed API offer per million tokens observed on the OpenRouter catalogue.
Scores are the sources' own published figures for each model's best evaluated configuration; ModelCap never re-runs a benchmark.
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Qwen2.5 72B Instruct ranks higher on the ModelCap Index as of 18 August 2026: #178 against #215. 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.
Nemotron Nano 9B V2 is cheaper on output tokens: Free/1M against $0.40/1M. Input tokens are Free/1M for Nemotron Nano 9B V2 and $0.36/1M for Qwen2.5 72B Instruct. Prices are the lowest listed API offer ModelCap observed, in USD per million tokens.
Nemotron Nano 9B V2 has the larger context window: 128K tokens against 33K.
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.
Nemotron Nano 9B V2: Restricted license. Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 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.
ModelCap currently lists 1 API provider for Nemotron Nano 9B V2 and 2 for Qwen2.5 72B Instruct, from the OpenRouter catalogue snapshot the site serves; each model page lists the providers and their prices.
Every figure comes from the sealed ModelCap dataset published 18 August 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.