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NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B NVFP4vsSolar Open 2 250B-A15B
Solar Open 2 250B-A15B leads 4 of 4 shared benchmarks. Both offer a 1M-token context window.
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Solar Open 2 250B-A15B leads
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NVIDIA · Upstage
NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B NVFP4
NVIDIA · released 2026-08-11
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- Scores
- 7 · 5 core
Solar Open 2 250B-A15B
Upstage · released 2026-07-24
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- 16 · 5 core
Quality
Benchmark matrix
4 shared · 3 only NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B NVFP4 · 12 only Solar Open 2 250B-A15B| Benchmark | NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B NVFP4 | Solar Open 2 250B-A15B | Δ | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reported by both · 4 | ||||
| SWE-bench Verified | 52.8% ↗ | 70.4% ↗ | -17.6 pt | Solar Open 2 250B-A15B |
| GPQA Diamond | 75.57% ↗ | 86.3% ↗ | -10.7 pt | Solar Open 2 250B-A15B |
| MMLU-Pro | 81.62% ↗ | 86.2% ↗ | -4.6 pt | Solar Open 2 250B-A15B |
| Humanity's Last Exam (no tools) | 10.47% ↗ | 28.8% ↗ | -18.3 pt | Solar Open 2 250B-A15B |
| Only NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B NVFP4 reports · 3 | ||||
| LMArena Elo | 1330.7 ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| BrowseComp | 36.81% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 23.46% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| Only Solar Open 2 250B-A15B reports · 12 | ||||
| AIME 2026 | not reported | 95.7% ↗ | — | — |
| AA-LCR | not reported | 62.3% ↗ | — | — |
| APEX-Agents | not reported | 16.6% ↗ | — | — |
| ArtifactsBench | not reported | 55.9% ↗ | — | — |
| GDPval-AA v2 | not reported | 1128 ↗ | — | — |
| HMMT 2026-02 | not reported | 93.9% ↗ | — | — |
| IFBench | not reported | 80% ↗ | — | — |
| LiveCodeBench v6 | not reported | 92.4% ↗ | — | — |
| MCP Atlas | not reported | 58.2% ↗ | — | — |
| Multi-Challenge | not reported | 61% ↗ | — | — |
| Tau3-Bench (banking) | not reported | 19.6% ↗ | — | — |
| Terminal Bench Hard | not reported | 28.3% ↗ | — | — |
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 Solar Open 2 250B-A15B 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 | Solar Open 2 250B-A15B | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 2026-07-24 | — |
| Cited benchmark scores | 7 | 16 | — |
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