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NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B NVFP4vsNVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B-A3B BF16
NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B-A3B BF16 leads 2 of 3 shared benchmarks. Both offer a 1M-token context window.
Benchmarks from cited public sources; pricing from official pages; status from official provider feeds.
Shared benchmarks
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NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B-A3B BF16 leads
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NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B NVFP4
NVIDIA · released 2026-08-11
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- 7 · 5 core
NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B-A3B BF16
NVIDIA · released 2025-12-15
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- 10 · 9 core
Quality
Benchmark matrix
3 shared · 4 only NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B NVFP4 · 7 only NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B-A3B BF16| Benchmark | NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B NVFP4 | NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B-A3B BF16 | Δ | Edge |
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| Reported by both · 3 | ||||
| MMLU-Pro | 81.62% ↗ | 78.3% ↗ | +3.3 pt | NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B NVFP4 |
| Humanity's Last Exam (no tools) | 10.47% ↗ | 10.6% ↗ | -0.1 pt | NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B-A3B BF16 |
| LMArena Elo | 1330.7 ↗ | 1348.4 ↗ | -17.7 | NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B-A3B BF16 |
| Only NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B NVFP4 reports · 4 | ||||
| SWE-bench Verified | 52.8% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| GPQA Diamond | 75.57% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| BrowseComp | 36.81% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 23.46% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| Only NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B-A3B BF16 reports · 7 | ||||
| AIME 2025 | not reported | 89.1% ↗ | — | — |
| AIME 2025 (with tools) | not reported | 99.2% ↗ | — | — |
| GPQA (no tools) | not reported | 73% ↗ | — | — |
| GPQA (with tools) | not reported | 75% ↗ | — | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam (with tools) | not reported | 15.5% ↗ | — | — |
| LiveCodeBench | not reported | 68.3% ↗ | — | — |
| SWE-Bench (OpenHands) | not reported | 38.8% ↗ | — | — |
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 NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B NVFP4 minus NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B-A3B BF16 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 | NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B NVFP4 | NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B-A3B BF16 | Edge |
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| Context window | 1M tokens | 1M tokens | Tie |
| Max output | — | — | — |
| 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 | 2026-08-11 | 2025-12-15 | — |
| Cited benchmark scores | 7 | 10 | — |
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