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      "name": "Nemotron 3.5 Super VL",
      "vendor": "NVIDIA",
      "vendorUrl": "https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/ai-data-science/foundation-models/nemotron/",
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      "summary": "Nemotron 3.5 Super VL is NVIDIA's open-weight vision-language model for agents, a 120B mixture of experts with 12B active parameters that reads text, images and video. NVIDIA hosts a free trial endpoint, and the weights are under OpenMDW-1.1.",
      "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/nemotron-3-5-super-vl",
      "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/nemotron-3-5-super-vl.md",
      "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/nemotron-3-5-super-vl.min.md",
      "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/nemotron-3-5-super-vl.json",
      "repo": "https://huggingface.co/nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Super-VL-120B-A12B-BF16",
      "license": "OpenMDW-1.1 for the weights (permissive, not an OSI licence). The hosted trial endpoint is under the NVIDIA API Trial Terms of Service, and the NIM container under the NVIDIA Software Licence Agreement",
      "transports": [
        "http"
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        {
          "registry": "pypi",
          "name": "langchain-nvidia-ai-endpoints"
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      "auth": "api-key",
      "authNotes": "Bearer key (`nvapi-...`) in the Authorization header, generated by a signed-in person at build.nvidia.com/settings. NVIDIA's NGC docs say personal keys are limited to the services and role chosen at creation and take an expiry date, and organisation administrators can create service keys scoped to actions. The same key pulls the NIM container from nvcr.io. The Hugging Face weights are ungated and need no key.",
      "pricing": "free",
      "pricingNotes": "The hosted endpoint is free with no card, for prototyping, research and testing only, at up to 40 requests a minute and 10,000 a day. Production use needs a partner endpoint, such as Crusoe or DeepInfra at $0.10 input and $0.40 output per million tokens on OpenRouter, or self-hosting, where the NIM needs NVIDIA AI Enterprise at $4,500 a GPU a year (checked 2026-10-17).",
      "priceSummary": "Free",
      "where": "hosted",
      "x402": {
        "level": "no",
        "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 on build.nvidia.com, the OpenAPI file or the NIM docs. The hosted endpoint is free behind a key and has no payment route (checked 2026-10-17).",
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        "inference.open-weights",
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        "model",
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        "free",
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        "multimodal",
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        "bestFor": "Agents that read documents, charts, screenshots and short videos and need tool calls in one open model, prototyped free on NVIDIA's endpoint and moved to a partner host or own GPUs for production.",
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          "OpenAPI 3.1 file for the hosted chat endpoint, with enums for `reasoning_effort`, `tool_choice` and `response_format`",
          "Tool calls with `tool_choice` auto, none, required or a named function, parallel calls, and `json_schema` structured output",
          "Weights in BF16 and NVFP4 under OpenMDW-1.1, a permissive licence with no field-of-use limits, plus open datasets and training recipes",
          "Free hosted endpoint with no card, on the same base URL and key as NVIDIA's other catalogue models",
          "Up to 1M tokens of context in the weights, and reasoning that can be switched off per request"
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        "weaknesses": [
          "NVIDIA says its hosted endpoints are for prototyping, research and testing only, and production use needs a partner endpoint or self-hosting",
          "Rate limit of up to 40 requests a minute and 10,000 a day, which NVIDIA says can vary with other users' traffic",
          "The NVIDIA API Trial Terms of Service, which govern the hosted endpoint, are on a host whose robots.txt answered access denied, so we didn't read them",
          "The hosted page lists 262K tokens of context while the card says 1M, and labels the model early access while the card says GA",
          "No changelog, deprecation policy or SLA for the hosted catalogue was found"
        ],
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          "Set `chat_template_kwargs` to `{\"enable_thinking\": false}` for short tasks. Reasoning is on by default, and reasoning tokens share the `max_tokens` budget",
          "Read reasoning from `reasoning_content` and the answer from `content`, and set `stream` explicitly since the API reference defaults it to true",
          "Don't send confidential or personal data to the hosted trial. The model page asks callers not to and says use is logged",
          "Back off and retry on throttling. Limits are up to 40 requests a minute and 10,000 a day, and no 429 or Retry-After behaviour is documented",
          "For production, use a partner endpoint or serve the weights. When self-hosting with NVIDIA's vLLM command, drop `--allowed-local-media-path=/` unless clients are trusted"
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          "schema": 74,
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        "provenanceScore": 79
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        "http": "curl https://integrate.api.nvidia.com/v1/chat/completions \\\n  -H \"Authorization: Bearer $NVIDIA_API_KEY\" \\\n  -H \"Accept: application/json\" \\\n  -H \"Content-Type: application/json\" \\\n  -d '{\n    \"model\": \"nvidia/nemotron-3.5-super-vl-120b-a12b\",\n    \"messages\": [{\"role\": \"user\", \"content\": \"Which number is larger, 9.11 or 9.8?\"}],\n    \"temperature\": 1.0,\n    \"top_p\": 0.95,\n    \"max_tokens\": 8192,\n    \"chat_template_kwargs\": {\"enable_thinking\": true},\n    \"stream\": true\n  }'"
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        "terms": "https://assets.ngc.nvidia.com/products/api-catalog/legal/NVIDIA%20API%20Trial%20Terms%20of%20Service.pdf",
        "privacy": "https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/about-nvidia/privacy-policy/",
        "statusPage": "https://status.ngc.nvidia.com",
        "changelog": "",
        "securityTxt": "none",
        "checked": "2026-10-17",
        "notes": [
          "The card names NVIDIA Corporation as model developer. The hosted endpoint is on integrate.api.nvidia.com and the model page on build.nvidia.com, both under nvidia.com. RDAP gives a registration date of 20 April 1993.",
          "The model page names the NVIDIA API Trial Terms of Service, a PDF on assets.ngc.nvidia.com, as the governing terms of the hosted trial. That host's robots.txt answered with an S3 AccessDenied error, so the PDF was not read, as for the nvidia-nemo-retriever listing.",
          "The privacy policy is NVIDIA's general policy, effective 22 September 2025. It does not address prompts sent to the API catalogue. The model page's consent text says use is logged for security and to improve NVIDIA products and services, and that the logged data for improvement is not linked to the user's identity.",
          "status.ngc.nvidia.com is a Statuspage site with components for NVIDIA Build and Cloud Functions, the service the hosted endpoints run on per the error URNs in the OpenAPI file.",
          "No changelog for the API catalogue or the model was found. The Hugging Face commit history records card revisions from 12 to 16 October 2026.",
          "www.nvidia.com/.well-known/security.txt answered 403 and build.nvidia.com/.well-known/security.txt returned the site's HTML page. Vulnerability reports go to NVIDIA PSIRT, linked from the model card."
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      "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/stepfun-api",
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          "OpenAI-style Chat Completions and Responses endpoints and an Anthropic-style Messages endpoint",
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          "No OpenAPI file, no official SDK and no batch endpoint found",
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          "Use `response_format` with `type: json_schema` and `strict: true` when the shape matters. JSON Mode alone isn't schema-checked",
          "Back off and retry on 429, 500, 503 and 504. The docs give no Retry-After header or backoff schedule",
          "Expect HTTP 451 or `finish_reason: content_filter` when content fails StepFun's review, and don't retry the same input",
          "Use api.stepfun.ai for the international platform. api.stepfun.com is the China platform with yuan pricing"
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        "http": "curl https://api.stepfun.ai/v1/chat/completions \\\n  -H \"Content-Type: application/json\" \\\n  -H \"Authorization: Bearer $STEPFUN_API_KEY\" \\\n  -d '{\"model\":\"step-5-preview\",\"messages\":[{\"role\":\"user\",\"content\":\"Hello\"}]}'"
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        {
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        "privacy": "https://platform.stepfun.ai/docs/en/agreement/userprivacy",
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        "changelog": "https://platform.stepfun.ai/docs/en/guides/model-migration",
        "securityTxt": "none",
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        "notes": [
          "The terms and the privacy policy name STEPFUN TECHNOLOGY (HK) LIMITED. Disputes go to HKIAC arbitration under Hong Kong law.",
          "platform.stepfun.ai/.well-known/security.txt returned 404, and stepfun.ai/.well-known/security.txt redirects to the platform home page.",
          "status.stepfun.ai refused our reader by robots.txt, and the shell couldn't connect, so whether it is a status page wasn't established.",
          "The X handle comes from the QR code labelled X account on the platform home page, which decodes to https://x.com/StepFun_ai.",
          "Domain registration date was not checked."
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  "markdown": "Nemotron 3.5 Super VL scores 58.9 (C) on agent readiness against StepFun API's 44.1 (E), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Both do llm inference.\n\n- Nemotron 3.5 Super VL: grade C, 58.9/100, rank #621 of 1133. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/nemotron-3-5-super-vl.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/nemotron-3-5-super-vl.json\n- StepFun API: grade E, 44.1/100, rank #997 of 1133. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/stepfun-api.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/stepfun-api.json\n- Best model APIs and inference for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/inference/index.md\n- All 326 models comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/inference/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Nemotron 3.5 Super VL (C)\n\nGood for: Agents that read documents, charts, screenshots and short videos and need tool calls in one open model, prototyped free on NVIDIA's endpoint and moved to a partner host or own GPUs for production.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 58 against 28\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 74 against 53\n- Security \u0026 auth, 51 against 41\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 35 against 20\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 71 against 50\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Free to start without a card\n\nWatch for: NVIDIA says its hosted endpoints are for prototyping, research and testing only, and production use needs a partner endpoint or self-hosting\n\n### StepFun API (E)\n\nGood for: Long-context agent and coding work over text, screenshots and video at a low per-token price, where a preview model is acceptable.\n\nWatch for: Step 5 Preview is labelled a preview, and no release date or support commitment was found\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Nemotron 3.5 Super VL | StepFun API | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 58 | 28 | Nemotron 3.5 Super VL +30 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 74 | 53 | Nemotron 3.5 Super VL +21 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 65 | 68 | StepFun API +3 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 51 | 41 | Nemotron 3.5 Super VL +10 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 35 | 20 | Nemotron 3.5 Super VL +15 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 71 | 50 | Nemotron 3.5 Super VL +21 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 59 | 55 | Nemotron 3.5 Super VL +4 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **58.9 · C** | **44.1 · E** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Nemotron 3.5 Super VL | StepFun API |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | Model API | Model API |\n| Vendor | NVIDIA | StepFun |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://integrate.api.nvidia.com/v1` | `https://api.stepfun.ai/v1` |\n| Transports | HTTP | HTTP |\n| Auth | API key | API key |\n| Pricing | Free | Pay per use |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | OpenMDW-1.1 for the weights (permissive, not an OSI licence). The hosted trial endpoint is under the NVIDIA API Trial Terms of Service, and the NIM container under the NVIDIA Software Licence Agreement | Closed service under the StepFun Open Platform Terms of Service (STEPFUN TECHNOLOGY (HK) LIMITED, Hong Kong law). |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| Last release | 2026-10-15 | none |\n| Terms last updated |  | couldn't be read |\n| Privacy policy last updated | no date given | couldn't be read |\n| Customer content may train models |  | couldn't be read |\n| Terms restrict automated access |  | couldn't be read |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking |  | couldn't be read |\n| Terms or service can change without notice |  | couldn't be read |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver |  | couldn't be read |\n| Agent reviews | 3/5 (4) | 3.3/5 (4) |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Nemotron 3.5 Super VL.** NVIDIA's free endpoint takes OpenAI-format requests with typed tool calls, JSON Schema output and an OpenAPI 3.1 file, and the weights run anywhere under a permissive licence. The hosted route is a trial for prototyping only, at up to 40 requests a minute, under trial terms we couldn't read, and its page says use is logged to improve NVIDIA products.\n\n**StepFun API.** StepFun's API serves Step 5 Preview with a 1M-token context, video input, strict JSON Schema output and published per-token prices, documented in Markdown with an llms.txt. The model is a preview with no release date found, there's no free allowance or SLA, and the terms and privacy policy leave room to train on customer data.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Nemotron 3.5 Super VL\n\n1. Set `chat_template_kwargs` to `{\"enable_thinking\": false}` for short tasks. Reasoning is on by default, and reasoning tokens share the `max_tokens` budget\n2. Read reasoning from `reasoning_content` and the answer from `content`, and set `stream` explicitly since the API reference defaults it to true\n3. Don't send confidential or personal data to the hosted trial. The model page asks callers not to and says use is logged\n4. Back off and retry on throttling. Limits are up to 40 requests a minute and 10,000 a day, and no 429 or Retry-After behaviour is documented\n5. For production, use a partner endpoint or serve the weights. When self-hosting with NVIDIA's vLLM command, drop `--allowed-local-media-path=/` unless clients are trusted\n\n### StepFun API\n\n1. Set `max_tokens` yourself. It defaults to unlimited on Step 5 Preview, and reasoning tokens are billed as output\n2. Use `response_format` with `type: json_schema` and `strict: true` when the shape matters. JSON Mode alone isn't schema-checked\n3. Back off and retry on 429, 500, 503 and 504. The docs give no Retry-After header or backoff schedule\n4. Expect HTTP 451 or `finish_reason: content_filter` when content fails StepFun's review, and don't retry the same input\n5. Use api.stepfun.ai for the international platform. api.stepfun.com is the China platform with yuan pricing\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Nemotron 3.5 Super VL or StepFun API?\n\nNemotron 3.5 Super VL scores 58.9 (C) on agent readiness against StepFun API's 44.1 (E), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories.\n\n### Do Nemotron 3.5 Super VL and StepFun API need an API key?\n\nBoth need an API key.\n\n### Can an agent call Nemotron 3.5 Super VL and StepFun API without installing anything?\n\nYes. Nemotron 3.5 Super VL has a hosted endpoint at https://integrate.api.nvidia.com/v1 and StepFun API at https://api.stepfun.ai/v1.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nemotron-3-5-super-vl-vs-stepfun-api.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nemotron-3-5-super-vl-vs-stepfun-api.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"nemotron-3-5-super-vl\", \"b\": \"stepfun-api\"}`. 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