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MAI-Thinking-1vsNVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B NVFP4
MAI-Thinking-1 leads 3 of 3 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
3 – 0
MAI-Thinking-1 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%
Microsoft · NVIDIA
MAI-Thinking-1
Microsoft · released 2026-08-12
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- Context
- 256K
- Max out
- 64K
- Input /1M
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- Output /1M
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- Cached /1M
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- Scores
- 15 · 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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- Input /1M
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- Output /1M
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- Cached /1M
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- Scores
- 7 · 5 core
Quality
Benchmark matrix
3 shared · 12 only MAI-Thinking-1 · 4 only NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B NVFP4| Benchmark | MAI-Thinking-1 | NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B NVFP4 | Δ | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reported by both · 3 | ||||
| SWE-bench Verified | 73.5% ↗ | 52.8% ↗ | +20.7 pt | MAI-Thinking-1 |
| GPQA Diamond | 84.2% ↗ | 75.57% ↗ | +8.6 pt | MAI-Thinking-1 |
| MMLU-Pro | 85% ↗ | 81.62% ↗ | +3.4 pt | MAI-Thinking-1 |
| Only MAI-Thinking-1 reports · 12 | ||||
| AIME 2025 | 97% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| AIME 2026 | 94.5% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| AdvancedIF | 85% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| BFCL v3 | 72% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| GraphWalks (<=128K) | 90% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| HMMT February 2026 | 84.9% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| IFBench | 69% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| LiveCodeBench v6 | 87.7% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| MultiChallenge | 53% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| SimpleQA Verified | 31% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| SWE-bench Pro | 52.8% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 46% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| Only NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B NVFP4 reports · 4 | ||||
| Humanity's Last Exam (no tools) | not reported | 10.47% ↗ | — | — |
| LMArena Elo | not reported | 1330.7 ↗ | — | — |
| 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 MAI-Thinking-1 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 | MAI-Thinking-1 | NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B NVFP4 | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|
| Context window | 256K tokens | 1M tokens | NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B NVFP4 |
| Max output | 64K 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 | 2026-08-12 | 2026-08-11 | — |
| Cited benchmark scores | 15 | 7 | — |
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