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NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B NVFP4vsPhi-4

NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B NVFP4 leads 3 of 3 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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Larger context
NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B NVFP4
1M tokens
Provider uptime (30d)
100% · —
NVIDIA · Microsoft
NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B NVFP4
NVIDIA · released 2026-08-11
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1M
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Scores
7 · 5 core
Phi-4
Microsoft · released 2024-12-12
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16K
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16K
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Scores
11 · 7 core
Quality

Benchmark matrix

BenchmarkNVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B NVFP4Phi-4ΔEdge
Reported by both · 3
GPQA Diamond75.57% 56.1% +19.5 ptNVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B NVFP4
MMLU-Pro81.62% 70.4% +11.2 ptNVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B NVFP4
LMArena Elo1330.7 1216.6 +114.1NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B NVFP4
Only NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B NVFP4 reports · 4
SWE-bench Verified52.8% not reported
Humanity's Last Exam (no tools)10.47% not reported
BrowseComp36.81% not reported
Terminal-Bench 2.123.46% not reported
Only Phi-4 reports · 7
MMLUnot reported84.8%
HumanEvalnot reported82.6%
ArenaHardnot reported75.4%
HumanEval+not reported82.8%
IFEvalnot reported63%
MATHnot reported80.4%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 (Epoch AI run)not reported13.8% epoch
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 Phi-4 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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SpecNVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B NVFP4Phi-4Edge
Context window1M tokens16K tokensNVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B NVFP4
Max output16K tokens
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Released2026-08-112024-12-12
Cited benchmark scores711
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