Llama 3 Swallow 70B Instruct vs Llama 3.3 Nemotron Super 49B v1

Name: Llama 3 Swallow 70B Instruct
Author: Tokyo Institute of Technology

Llama 3 Swallow 70B Instruct (2024) and Llama 3.3 Nemotron Super 49B v1 (2025) are compact production models from Tokyo Institute of Technology and NVIDIA AI. Llama 3 Swallow 70B Instruct ships a 4k-token context window, while Llama 3.3 Nemotron Super 49B v1 ships a 128k-token context window. This comparison covers specs, pricing, API access, capabilities, benchmarks, input and output token costs, and production fit for coding and agent workloads.

Llama 3.3 Nemotron Super 49B v1 fits 32x more tokens; pick it for long-context work and Llama 3 Swallow 70B Instruct for tighter calls.

Decision scorecard

Local evidence first

Signal	Llama 3 Swallow 70B Instruct	Llama 3.3 Nemotron Super 49B v1	How to read it
Best for	general production evaluation	general production evaluation	Use-case synthesis from product type, capability flags, context, and provider data.
Decision fit	General	Long context	Primary workload tags from local decision data.
Context window	4k	128k	Higher is better when prompts, retrieval chunks, or transcripts are large.
Cheapest output	-	-	Cheapest tracked provider route; verify your exact region and tier.
Provider routes	1 tracked	1 tracked	Broader coverage can reduce vendor lock-in and fallback risk.
Shared benchmarks	0 shared	0 shared	No shared benchmark scores are available for this pair yet.

Decision tradeoffs

Choose Llama 3 Swallow 70B Instruct when...

Use Llama 3 Swallow 70B Instruct when your own prompt tests beat the comparison signals; the local data does not show a decisive standalone advantage yet.

Choose Llama 3.3 Nemotron Super 49B v1 when...

Llama 3.3 Nemotron Super 49B v1 has the larger context window for long prompts, retrieval packs, or transcript analysis.
Local decision data tags Llama 3.3 Nemotron Super 49B v1 for Long context.

Monthly cost at traffic

Estimate token spend from the cheapest tracked input and output route or tier on this page.

Requests / monthInput tokens / requestOutput tokens / request

Llama 3 Swallow 70B Instruct

Unavailable

No complete token price in local provider data

Llama 3.3 Nemotron Super 49B v1

Unavailable

No complete token price in local provider data

Cost delta unavailable until both models have sourced input and output token prices.

Switch friction

Llama 3 Swallow 70B Instruct -> Llama 3.3 Nemotron Super 49B v1

Provider overlap exists on NVIDIA NIM; start route-level A/B tests there.

Llama 3.3 Nemotron Super 49B v1 -> Llama 3 Swallow 70B Instruct

Provider overlap exists on NVIDIA NIM; start route-level A/B tests there.

Specs

Specification	Llama 3 Swallow 70B Instruct Tokyo Institute of Technology	Llama 3.3 Nemotron Super 49B v1 NVIDIA AI
Released	2024-06-01	2025-06-01
Context window	4k	128k
Parameters	70B	49B
Architecture	Decoder Only	Decoder Only
License	Llama 2 Community	NVIDIA Open Model
Openness	Open weights	Open weights
Weights	Unknown	Unknown
Code	Unknown	Unknown
Commercial use	Commercial use: conditional	Commercial use: permitted
Knowledge cutoff	2023	-

Pricing and availability

Pricing attribute	Llama 3 Swallow 70B Instruct	Llama 3.3 Nemotron Super 49B v1
Input price	-	-
Output price	-	-
Providers	NVIDIA NIM	NVIDIA NIM

Pricing not yet sourced for either model.

Capabilities

Capability	Llama 3 Swallow 70B Instruct	Llama 3.3 Nemotron Super 49B v1
Vision	No	No
Multimodal	No	No
Reasoning	No	No
JSON / Tool use	No	No
Structured outputs	No	No
Code execution	No	No
IDE integration	No	No
Computer use	No	No
Parallel agents	No	No

Benchmarks

No shared benchmark scores are currently available for this pair.

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Last reviewed: 2026-06-30. Data sourced from public model cards and provider documentation.

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