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Mistral Medium 3.5vsNVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B NVFP4

Mistral Medium 3.5 leads 2 of 2 shared benchmarks. NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B NVFP4 has the larger context window (1M tokens).

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Shared benchmarks
2 – 0
Mistral Medium 3.5 leads
Cheaper per token
list price, input + output
Larger context
NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B NVFP4
1M tokens
Provider uptime (30d)
100% · 100%
Mistral AI · NVIDIA
Mistral Medium 3.5
Mistral AI · released 2026-04-28
textvision
Context
256K
Max out
Input /1M
$1.5
Output /1M
$7.5
Cached /1M
$0.15
Scores
3 · 2 core
NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B NVFP4
NVIDIA · released 2026-08-11
text
Context
1M
Max out
Input /1M
Output /1M
Cached /1M
Scores
7 · 5 core
Quality

Benchmark matrix

BenchmarkMistral Medium 3.5NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B NVFP4ΔEdge
Reported by both · 2
SWE-bench Verified77.6% 52.8% +24.8 ptMistral Medium 3.5
LMArena Elo1420.6 1330.7 +89.9Mistral Medium 3.5
Only Mistral Medium 3.5 reports · 1
Tau3 Telecom91.4 not reported
Only NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B NVFP4 reports · 5
GPQA Diamondnot reported75.57%
MMLU-Pronot reported81.62%
Humanity's Last Exam (no tools)not reported10.47%
BrowseCompnot reported36.81%
Terminal-Bench 2.1not reported23.46%
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 Mistral Medium 3.5 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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SpecMistral Medium 3.5NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B NVFP4Edge
Context window256K tokens1M tokensNVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B NVFP4
Max output
Input price / 1M$1.5
Output price / 1M$7.5
Cached input / 1M$0.15
Input + output / 1M
Lower is cheaper. List prices; batch, tool and regional fees excluded.
$9
Modalitiestext · visiontextMistral Medium 3.5
Released2026-04-282026-08-11
Cited benchmark scores37
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