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Ministral 3 8BvsNVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B NVFP4
NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B NVFP4 leads 1 of 1 shared benchmark. NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B NVFP4 has the larger context window (1M tokens).
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Shared benchmarks
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NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B NVFP4 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%
Mistral AI · NVIDIA
Ministral 3 8B
Mistral AI · released 2025-12-02
textvision
NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B NVFP4
NVIDIA · released 2026-08-11
text
- Context
- 1M
- Max out
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- Scores
- 7 · 5 core
Quality
Benchmark matrix
1 shared · 2 only Ministral 3 8B · 6 only NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B NVFP4| Benchmark | Ministral 3 8B | NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B NVFP4 | Δ | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reported by both · 1 | ||||
| GPQA Diamond | 66.8% ↗ | 75.57% ↗ | -8.8 pt | NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B NVFP4 |
| Only Ministral 3 8B reports · 2 | ||||
| AIME 2025 | 78.7% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| LiveCodeBench | 61.6% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| Only NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B NVFP4 reports · 6 | ||||
| SWE-bench Verified | not reported | 52.8% ↗ | — | — |
| MMLU-Pro | not reported | 81.62% ↗ | — | — |
| 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 Ministral 3 8B 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
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Official pricing pages and model cards| Spec | Ministral 3 8B | 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 | — | — | — |
| Input price / 1M | $0.15 ↗ | — | — |
| Output price / 1M | $0.15 ↗ | — | — |
| Cached input / 1M | $0.015 ↗ | — | — |
| Input + output / 1M Lower is cheaper. List prices; batch, tool and regional fees excluded. | $0.3 | — | — |
| Modalities | text · vision | text | Ministral 3 8B |
| Released | 2025-12-02 | 2026-08-11 | — |
| Cited benchmark scores | 3 | 7 | — |
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