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NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B NVFP4vsQwen3.5 397B-A17B
Qwen3.5 397B-A17B leads 4 of 4 shared benchmarks. NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B NVFP4 has the larger context window (1M tokens).
Benchmarks from cited public sources; pricing from official pages; status from official provider feeds.
Shared benchmarks
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Qwen3.5 397B-A17B 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)
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NVIDIA · Qwen
NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B NVFP4
NVIDIA · released 2026-08-11
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- Scores
- 7 · 5 core
Qwen3.5 397B-A17B
Qwen · released 2026-02-15
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Benchmark matrix
4 shared · 3 only NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B NVFP4 · 3 only Qwen3.5 397B-A17B| Benchmark | NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B NVFP4 | Qwen3.5 397B-A17B | Δ | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reported by both · 4 | ||||
| SWE-bench Verified | 52.8% ↗ | 76.4% ↗ | -23.6 pt | Qwen3.5 397B-A17B |
| GPQA Diamond | 75.57% ↗ | 88.4% ↗ | -12.8 pt | Qwen3.5 397B-A17B |
| MMLU-Pro | 81.62% ↗ | 87.8% ↗ | -6.2 pt | Qwen3.5 397B-A17B |
| LMArena Elo | 1330.7 ↗ | 1438.3 ↗ | -107.6 | Qwen3.5 397B-A17B |
| Only NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B NVFP4 reports · 3 | ||||
| Humanity's Last Exam (no tools) | 10.47% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| BrowseComp | 36.81% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 23.46% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| Only Qwen3.5 397B-A17B reports · 3 | ||||
| AIME 2026 | not reported | 94.2% ↗matharena ⚠ | — | — |
| FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 v2 (Epoch AI run) | not reported | 29.5% ↗epoch | — | — |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 (Epoch AI run) | not reported | 88.9% ↗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 Qwen3.5 397B-A17B 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 | Qwen3.5 397B-A17B | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|
| Context window | 1M tokens | 262K tokens | NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B NVFP4 |
| Max output | — | — | — |
| Input price / 1M | — | $0.172 ↗ | — |
| Output price / 1M | — | $1.03 ↗ | — |
| Cached input / 1M | — | — | — |
| Input + output / 1M Lower is cheaper. List prices; batch, tool and regional fees excluded. | — | $1.2 | — |
| Modalities | text | text · vision | Qwen3.5 397B-A17B |
| Released | 2026-08-11 | 2026-02-15 | — |
| Cited benchmark scores | 7 | 8 | — |
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