Nebius vs Novita AI
Same workloads, both price lists, refreshed daily. On shared line items today: Nebius is cheaper on 8 of 26 shared models (input or output price), Novita AI on 7.
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
Novita AI
Combines a serverless LLM API (DeepSeek, Llama, Qwen at aggressive per-token prices) with GPU instances and template deployments, one of the few providers covering both sides of the hosting equation..
- Both LLM API and GPU rental under one account
- Aggressive open-weight model pricing
- Template marketplace for common stacks
Shared models, priced by both
List prices refreshed 2026-10-08 ยท input $/1M tokens| Model | Nebius in/out | Novita AI in/out | Cheaper input |
|---|---|---|---|
| Llama 3.1 8B | $0.020 / $0.060 | $0.020 / $0.050 | tie |
| Mistral Nemo | $0.040 / $0.120 | $0.040 / $0.170 | tie |
| Nemotron 3 Nano | $0.060 / $0.240 | $0.050 / $0.200 | Novita AI |
| Qwen3-4B | $0.080 / $0.240 | $0.030 / $0.030 | Novita AI |
| Qwen3 30B A3B | $0.100 / $0.300 | $0.090 / $0.450 | Novita AI |
| Qwen3 32B | $0.100 / $0.300 | $0.100 / $0.450 | tie |
| Gemma 3 27B | $0.100 / $0.300 | $0.119 / $0.200 | Nebius |
| Llama 3.3 70B | $0.130 / $0.400 | $0.135 / $0.400 | Nebius |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | $0.140 / $0.280 | $0.140 / $0.280 | tie |
| GPT-OSS 120B | $0.150 / $0.600 | $0.050 / $0.250 | Novita AI |
| Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking | $0.150 / $1.20 | $0.150 / $1.50 | tie |
| Qwen3 235B A22B | $0.200 / $0.600 | $0.200 / $0.800 | tie |
| DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70B | $0.250 / $0.750 | $0.800 / $0.800 | Nebius |
| Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct | $0.250 / $0.750 | $0.800 / $0.800 | Nebius |
| MiniMax M3 | $0.300 / $1.20 | $0.300 / $1.20 | tie |
| MiniMax M2.5 | $0.300 / $1.20 | $0.300 / $1.20 | tie |
| DeepSeek V3 | $0.500 / $1.50 | $0.890 / $0.890 | Nebius |
| Qwen3.5 397B A17B | $0.600 / $3.60 | $0.600 / $3.60 | tie |
| DeepSeek R1 | $0.800 / $2.40 | $4.00 / $4.00 | Nebius |
| Kimi K2.6 | $0.950 / $4.00 | $0.800 / $3.40 | Novita AI |
| Kimi K2.7 Code | $0.950 / $4.00 | $0.950 / $4.00 | tie |
| GLM-5.2 | $1.40 / $4.40 | $1.40 / $4.40 | tie |
| GLM 5.3 | $1.40 / $4.40 | $1.40 / $4.40 | tie |
| GLM-5.1 | $1.40 / $4.40 | $1.38 / $4.40 | Novita AI |
| DeepSeek V4 Pro | $1.75 / $3.50 | $1.60 / $3.20 | Novita AI |
| Kimi K3 | $3.00 / $15.00 | $3.00 / $15.00 | tie |
Cheaper-on-count is a tally of listed prices, not a quality verdict: throughput, reliability and quantization differ between providers. Disclosure.