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Mistral Small 4vsNVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B NVFP4
NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B NVFP4 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
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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
Mistral Small 4
Mistral AI · released 2026-03-16
textvision
NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B NVFP4
NVIDIA · released 2026-08-11
text
- 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
2 shared · 1 only Mistral Small 4 · 5 only NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B NVFP4| Benchmark | Mistral Small 4 | NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B NVFP4 | Δ | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reported by both · 2 | ||||
| GPQA Diamond | 71.2% ↗ | 75.57% ↗ | -4.4 pt | NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B NVFP4 |
| MMLU-Pro | 78% ↗ | 81.62% ↗ | -3.6 pt | NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B NVFP4 |
| Only Mistral Small 4 reports · 1 | ||||
| Artificial Analysis Long Context Reasoning | 0.72 ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| Only NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B NVFP4 reports · 5 | ||||
| SWE-bench Verified | not reported | 52.8% ↗ | — | — |
| 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 Mistral Small 4 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 | Mistral Small 4 | 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 | $0.6 ↗ | — | — |
| Cached input / 1M | $0.015 ↗ | — | — |
| Input + output / 1M Lower is cheaper. List prices; batch, tool and regional fees excluded. | $0.75 | — | — |
| Modalities | text · vision | text | Mistral Small 4 |
| Released | 2026-03-16 | 2026-08-11 | — |
| Cited benchmark scores | 3 | 7 | — |
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