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Deepseek Coder V2 Lite Base vs Nvidia Nemotron 3 5 Lightning 30b A3b

This page is context-first: how much text each model can take in one request. Full specs adds capabilities and limits; the pricing matrix below is only about $/million tokens from hosts that list both models.

Deepseek

Model

Deepseek Coder V2 Lite Base

Context window

164K

163,840 tokens · ~123K words

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Nvidia

Model

Nvidia Nemotron 3 5 Lightning 30b A3b

Context window

66K

65,536 tokens · ~49K words

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Context window · side by side

Bar length is relative to the larger of the two windows (100% = max of this pair). This is not pricing.

Deepseek Coder V2 Lite Base164K
Nvidia Nemotron 3 5 Lightning 30b A3b66K

Deepseek Coder V2 Lite Base has about 2.5× the context window of the other in this pair.

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Deepseek Coder V2 Lite Base has 150% more context capacity (163K vs 65K tokens). Nvidia Nemotron 3 5 Lightning 30b A3b is 70% cheaper on input.

Quick verdicts

Short takeaways — validate with your own workloads.

  • Long document processing

    Use Deepseek Coder V2 Lite Base. Its 163K context fits entire documents without chunking (vs 65K).

  • RAG / high-volume retrieval

    Use Nvidia Nemotron 3 5 Lightning 30b A3b. Input tokens are 70% cheaper — critical when sending large retrieved contexts.

Full specs

Context, output, capabilities, and dates. Green highlights the favorable value where we compute a winner.

SpecDeepseek Coder V2 Lite BaseNvidia Nemotron 3 5 Lightning 30b A3b
Context window163,840 tokens (163K)65,536 tokens (65K)
Max output tokens163,840 tokens (163K)N/A
Speed tierBalancedFast
VisionNoNo
Function callingNoNo
Extended thinkingNoNo
Prompt cachingNoYes
Batch APINoNo
Release dateN/AN/A

Pricing matrix

Dollar rates only: hosts that list both models, per 1M tokens. For how much text fits, use the context section above — not this table.

ProviderDeepseek Coder V2 Lite Base inDeepseek Coder V2 Lite Base outNvidia Nemotron 3 5 Lightning 30b A3b inNvidia Nemotron 3 5 Lightning 30b A3b out
Fireworks$0.500/M$0.500/M——
Gmi——$0.150/M$1.00/M

Frequently asked questions

Deepseek Coder V2 Lite Base has a larger context window: 163K tokens vs 65K. For long documents, large codebases, or extended agent sessions, the larger context window reduces the need to chunk inputs or summarize history.

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