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Nova Micro 1.0 vs Llama 3.3 70B Instruct

For a typical chat reply (2,000 tokens in, 400 out), Llama 3.3 70B Instruct costs 2.6× as much as Nova Micro 1.0: $0.328 against $0.126 per 1,000 requests at list price on 2026-09-28.

Nova Micro 1.0Llama 3.3 70B Instruct
Input, per 1M tokens$0.035$0.10
Output, per 1M tokens$0.14$0.32
Context window128K131K
Classification or routing (600 tokens in, 10 out), per 1,000$0.0224$0.0632
Chat reply (2,000 in, 400 out), per 1,000$0.126$0.328
Retrieval-augmented answer (8,000 in, 500 out), per 1,000$0.35$0.96
Confidence signalnoyes
Tool callingyesyes
BANKING77, correct of 400not measured305

Which one should carry your traffic?

If Nova Micro 1.0 answers your requests as well as Llama 3.3 70B Instruct, moving that traffic saves 62% on chat-shaped requests. Averages cannot tell you whether it does for your requests. Nova Micro 1.0 does not expose a confidence signal through OpenRouter, so Gimbix would test it as a full replacement rather than a first answer.

Nova Micro 1.0 profile · Llama 3.3 70B Instruct profile · Measure it on your traffic