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Nemotron-3-120b-A12b vs Sonar Deep Research

Pricing, context window, capabilities, and release date — pulled from each provider's public docs. Both are available via the same AIgateway OpenAI-compatible endpoint; flip the model string to switch.

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 Nemotron-3-120b-A12b
nvidia/nemotron-3-120b-a12b
Sonar Deep Research
perplexity/sonar-deep-research
ProviderNvidiaPerplexity
Family
Modalitytexttext
Context window131,072 tok127,000 tok
Max output4,096 tok16,384 tok
Released2026-02-242025-02-14
Input price$0.500 /1M$2.00 /1M
Output price$1.20 /1M$8.00 /1M
Cache read
Toolsyes
Streamingyesyes
Vision
JSON modeyes
Reasoningyesyes
Prompt caching
Nemotron-3-120b-A12b
nvidia/nemotron-3-120b-a12b
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NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super is a hybrid MoE model with leading accuracy for multi-agent applications and specialized agentic AI systems.

Strengths
  • General-purpose chat
  • Long context
  • Tool use
Sonar Deep Research
perplexity/sonar-deep-research
Full spec →

Perplexity Sonar Deep Research — long-form web-grounded answers.

Strengths
  • General-purpose chat
  • Long context
  • Tool use
SWITCH BETWEEN THEM

One key, both models, one line different.

# pip install aigateway-py openai
# aigateway-py: sub-accounts, evals, replays, jobs, webhook verify.
# openai SDK: chat/embeddings/images/audio — drop-in compat per our SDK's own guidance.
from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    base_url="https://api.aigateway.sh/v1",
    api_key="sk-aig-...",
)

# Try Nemotron-3-120b-A12b
client.chat.completions.create(
    model="nvidia/nemotron-3-120b-a12b",
    messages=[{"role":"user","content":"hello"}],
)

# Try Sonar Deep Research — same client, same key
client.chat.completions.create(
    model="perplexity/sonar-deep-research",
    messages=[{"role":"user","content":"hello"}],
)
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