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NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B NVFP4vsQwen3.6-Flash
Qwen3.6-Flash leads 1 of 1 shared benchmark. 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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Qwen3.6-Flash leads
Cheaper per token
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list price, input + output
Larger context
Tie
both 1M tokens
Provider uptime (30d)
100% · —
NVIDIA · Qwen
NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B NVFP4
NVIDIA · released 2026-08-11
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- 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
Qwen3.6-Flash
Qwen · released 2026-04-16
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Quality
Benchmark matrix
1 shared · 6 only NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B NVFP4 · 3 only Qwen3.6-Flash| Benchmark | NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B NVFP4 | Qwen3.6-Flash | Δ | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reported by both · 1 | ||||
| GPQA Diamond | 75.57% ↗ | 83.3% ↗epoch | -7.7 pt | Qwen3.6-Flash |
| Only NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B NVFP4 reports · 6 | ||||
| SWE-bench Verified | 52.8% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 81.62% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam (no tools) | 10.47% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| LMArena Elo | 1330.7 ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| BrowseComp | 36.81% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 23.46% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| Only Qwen3.6-Flash reports · 3 | ||||
| FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 v2 (Epoch AI run) | not reported | 17.2% ↗epoch | — | — |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 (Epoch AI run) | not reported | 84.4% ↗epoch | — | — |
| SimpleQA Verified | not reported | 15.9% ↗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 Qwen3.6-Flash 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 | NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B NVFP4 | Qwen3.6-Flash | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|
| Context window | 1M tokens | 1M tokens | Tie |
| Max output | — | — | — |
| Input price / 1M | — | $0.165 ↗ | — |
| Output price / 1M | — | $0.99 ↗ | — |
| Cached input / 1M | — | — | — |
| Input + output / 1M Lower is cheaper. List prices; batch, tool and regional fees excluded. | — | $1.16 | — |
| Modalities | text | text · vision | Qwen3.6-Flash |
| Released | 2026-08-11 | 2026-04-16 | — |
| Cited benchmark scores | 7 | 4 | — |
Reliability
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