Fireworks AI vs Nebius

Same workloads, both price lists, refreshed daily. On shared line items today: Fireworks AI is cheaper on 0 of 18 shared models (input or output price), Nebius on 15.

Fireworks AI

Speed-focused open-model inference with FireAttention serving stack, function-calling models and image generation. Strong latency SLAs for production apps.

Very low latency serving
Function-calling optimized
Enterprise SLAs

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Nebius

AI cloud from the former Yandex team with H100/H200/B200 clusters in Europe and the US, plus Nebius AI Studio for per-token open-weight inference. Competitive pricing at cluster scale.

European datacenters
Both clusters and per-token inference
Aggressive large-scale pricing

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Shared models, priced by both

List prices refreshed 2026-08-23 · input $/1M tokens

Model	Fireworks AI in/out	Nebius in/out	Cheaper input
Qwen3 30B A3B	$0.150 / $0.600	$0.100 / $0.300	Nebius
Mistral Nemo	$0.200 / $0.200	$0.040 / $0.120	Nebius
Llama-Guard-3-8B	$0.200 / $0.200	$0.020 / $0.060	Nebius
Qwen3 14B	$0.200 / $0.200	$0.080 / $0.240	Nebius
Qwen2.5-Coder-7B	$0.200 / $0.200	$0.010 / $0.030	Nebius
Qwen3-4B	$0.200 / $0.200	$0.080 / $0.240	Nebius
Qwen2-VL-7B-Instruct	$0.200 / $0.200	$0.020 / $0.060	Nebius
Qwen3 235B A22B	$0.220 / $0.880	$0.200 / $0.600	Nebius
DeepSeek V3	$0.900 / $0.900	$0.500 / $1.50	Nebius
DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70B	$0.900 / $0.900	$0.250 / $0.750	Nebius
Qwen3 32B	$0.900 / $0.900	$0.100 / $0.300	Nebius
QwQ-32B	$0.900 / $0.900	$0.150 / $0.450	Nebius
Gemma 3 27B	$0.900 / $0.900	$0.060 / $0.200	Nebius
Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct	$0.900 / $0.900	$0.130 / $0.400	Nebius
Qwen2p5-72b	$0.900 / $0.900	$0.130 / $0.400	Nebius
Qwen2p5-32b	$0.900 / $0.900	$0.060 / $0.200	Nebius
Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct	$0.900 / $0.900	$0.130 / $0.400	Nebius
DeepSeek R1	$3.00 / $8.00	$0.800 / $2.40	Nebius

Cheaper-on-count is a tally of listed prices, not a quality verdict: throughput, reliability and quantization differ between providers. Disclosure.