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Decision facts

• Gemma 3 12B is #155; Nemotron 3.5 Lightning is #103 on the same current language board.
• Index scores are 30.9 for Gemma 3 12B and 43.4 for Nemotron 3.5 Lightning. Their published uncertainty intervals overlap, so the rank difference alone does not establish a reliable capability advantage for your workload.
• Both positions use Measured evidence.
• Listed output price per 1M tokens is $0.15 for Gemma 3 12B and $0.20 for Nemotron 3.5 Lightning. For 1,000 requests with 2,000 input and 500 output tokens each (2M input + 0.5M output), the listed-rate estimate is $0.17 for Gemma 3 12B versus $0.26 for Nemotron 3.5 Lightning. Gemma 3 12B costs 32.7% less in this scenario. This excludes caching, batch discounts, prompt-length tiers, tool charges and retries; verify the selected endpoint before budgeting.
• Published context is 131,072 tokens for Gemma 3 12B and 262,144 for Nemotron 3.5 Lightning.
• Weight access differs: Gemma 3 12B is gated; Nemotron 3.5 Lightning is restricted.
• ModelCap currently lists 1 providers for Gemma 3 12B and 4 for Nemotron 3.5 Lightning.

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