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DeepSeek V3.2vsNVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B NVFP4
DeepSeek V3.2 leads 5 of 5 shared benchmarks. NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B NVFP4 has the larger context window (1M tokens).
Benchmarks from cited public sources; pricing from official pages; status from official provider feeds.
Shared benchmarks
5 – 0
DeepSeek V3.2 leads
Cheaper per token
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list price, input + output
Larger context
NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B NVFP4
1M tokens
Provider uptime (30d)
100% · 100%
DeepSeek · NVIDIA
DeepSeek V3.2
DeepSeek · released 2025-12-01
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- Context
- 131K
- Max out
- 66K
- Input /1M
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- Cached /1M
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- Scores
- 8 · 7 core
NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B NVFP4
NVIDIA · released 2026-08-11
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- Context
- 1M
- Max out
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- Output /1M
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- Cached /1M
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- Scores
- 7 · 5 core
Quality
Benchmark matrix
5 shared · 2 only DeepSeek V3.2 · 2 only NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B NVFP4| Benchmark | DeepSeek V3.2 | NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B NVFP4 | Δ | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reported by both · 5 | ||||
| SWE-bench Verified | 73.1% ↗ | 52.8% ↗ | +20.3 pt | DeepSeek V3.2 |
| GPQA Diamond | 82.4% ↗ | 75.57% ↗ | +6.8 pt | DeepSeek V3.2 |
| MMLU-Pro | 85% ↗ | 81.62% ↗ | +3.4 pt | DeepSeek V3.2 |
| Humanity's Last Exam (no tools) | 25.1% ↗ | 10.47% ↗ | +14.6 pt | DeepSeek V3.2 |
| LMArena Elo | 1424.8 ↗ | 1330.7 ↗ | +94.1 | DeepSeek V3.2 |
| Only DeepSeek V3.2 reports · 2 | ||||
| AIME 2025 | 93.1% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| AIME 2026 | 94.2% ↗matharena | not reported | — | — |
| Only NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B NVFP4 reports · 2 | ||||
| BrowseComp | not reported | 36.81% ↗ | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | not reported | 23.46% ↗ | — | — |
Scores tagged "epoch" or "matharena" are independent runs, used only where the lab has not published its own; ⚠ marks rows MathArena flags as released after the competition. Higher is better on every row. Δ is DeepSeek V3.2 minus NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B NVFP4 in the benchmark's own unit. "Not reported" means the lab has not published that figure; it is not a zero. ↗ opens the source.
Specs & pricing
Side by side
Official pricing pages and model cards| Spec | DeepSeek V3.2 | NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B NVFP4 | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|
| Context window | 131K tokens | 1M tokens | NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B NVFP4 |
| Max output | 66K tokens | — | — |
| Input price / 1M | — | — | — |
| Output price / 1M | — | — | — |
| Cached input / 1M | — | — | — |
| Input + output / 1M Lower is cheaper. List prices; batch, tool and regional fees excluded. | — | — | — |
| Modalities | text | text | Tie |
| Released | 2025-12-01 | 2026-08-11 | — |
| Cited benchmark scores | 8 | 7 | — |
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