Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Nemotron Nano 9B v2 leads with 12.5% higher average benchmark score. Llama 3.1 70B Instruct is available on 9 providers. Overall, Nemotron Nano 9B v2 is the stronger choice for coding tasks.
Meta
Llama 3.1 70B was created as a balanced open-source model, designed to provide strong performance with 70 billion parameters while remaining practical for many deployment scenarios. Built to serve as a versatile foundation for fine-tuning and application development, it combines capability with accessibility in the open-source ecosystem.
NVIDIA
Nemotron Nano 9B v2 is a language model developed by NVIDIA. It achieves strong performance with an average score of 77.0% across 6 benchmarks. It excels particularly in MATH-500 (97.8%), IFEval (90.3%), AIME 2025 (72.1%). It's licensed for commercial use, making it suitable for enterprise applications. Released in 2025, it represents NVIDIA's latest advancement in AI technology.
1 year newer

Llama 3.1 70B Instruct
Meta
2024-07-23

Nemotron Nano 9B v2
NVIDIA
2025-08-18
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 2 common benchmarks

Llama 3.1 70B Instruct

Nemotron Nano 9B v2
Nemotron Nano 9B v2
2024-09
Available providers and their performance metrics

Llama 3.1 70B Instruct
Bedrock
Cerebras
DeepInfra
Fireworks
Groq

Llama 3.1 70B Instruct

Nemotron Nano 9B v2

Llama 3.1 70B Instruct

Nemotron Nano 9B v2
Hyperbolic
Lambda
Sambanova
Together

Nemotron Nano 9B v2