Nemotron 3 Nano 30B vs Qwen3.5-122B-A10B

Side-by-side benchmark comparison across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, and math workflows.

Agentic
Coding
Multimodal & Grounded
Reasoning
Knowledge
Instruction Following
Multilingual
Mathematics

Nemotron 3 Nano 30B· Qwen3.5-122B-A10B

Quick Verdict

Pick Qwen3.5-122B-A10B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Nemotron 3 Nano 30B only becomes the better choice if you would rather avoid the extra latency and token burn of a reasoning model.

Qwen3.5-122B-A10B is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 71 to 45. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

Qwen3.5-122B-A10B's sharpest advantage is in coding, where it averages 76.3 against 26.6. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is SWE-bench Verified, 26% to 72%.

Qwen3.5-122B-A10B is the reasoning model in the pair, while Nemotron 3 Nano 30B is not. That usually helps on harder chain-of-thought-heavy tests, but it can also mean more latency and more token spend in real use. Qwen3.5-122B-A10B gives you the larger context window at 262K, compared with 32K for Nemotron 3 Nano 30B.

Operational tradeoffs

PriceFree*Free*
Speed152 t/sN/A
TTFT1.90sN/A
Context32K262K

Decision framing

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BenchmarkNemotron 3 Nano 30BQwen3.5-122B-A10B
AgenticQwen3.5-122B-A10B wins
Terminal-Bench 2.038%49.4%
BrowseComp43%63.8%
OSWorld-Verified39%58%
tau2-bench79.5%
CodingQwen3.5-122B-A10B wins
HumanEval49%
SWE-bench Verified26%72%
SWE-bench Pro27%
LiveCodeBench78.9%
Multimodal & GroundedQwen3.5-122B-A10B wins
MMMU-Pro38%76.9%
OfficeQA Pro54%
ReasoningQwen3.5-122B-A10B wins
MuSR52%
BBH72%
LongBench v251%60.2%
MRCRv251%
KnowledgeQwen3.5-122B-A10B wins
MMLU57%
GPQA56%86.6%
SuperGPQA54%67.1%
MMLU-Pro65%86.7%
HLE1%
FrontierScience54%
SimpleQA54%
Instruction FollowingQwen3.5-122B-A10B wins
IFEval78%93.4%
MultilingualQwen3.5-122B-A10B wins
MGSM75%
MMLU-ProX70%82.2%
Mathematics
AIME 202357%
AIME 202459%
AIME 202558%
HMMT Feb 202353%
HMMT Feb 202455%
HMMT Feb 202554%
BRUMO 202556%
MATH-50073%
Frequently Asked Questions (8)

Which is better, Nemotron 3 Nano 30B or Qwen3.5-122B-A10B?

Qwen3.5-122B-A10B is ahead overall, 71 to 45. The biggest single separator in this matchup is SWE-bench Verified, where the scores are 26% and 72%.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Nemotron 3 Nano 30B or Qwen3.5-122B-A10B?

Qwen3.5-122B-A10B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 81.6 versus 44.5. Inside this category, GPQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, Nemotron 3 Nano 30B or Qwen3.5-122B-A10B?

Qwen3.5-122B-A10B has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 76.3 versus 26.6. Inside this category, SWE-bench Verified is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, Nemotron 3 Nano 30B or Qwen3.5-122B-A10B?

Qwen3.5-122B-A10B has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 60.2 versus 51.3. Inside this category, LongBench v2 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for agentic tasks, Nemotron 3 Nano 30B or Qwen3.5-122B-A10B?

Qwen3.5-122B-A10B has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 56 versus 39.6. Inside this category, BrowseComp is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multimodal and grounded tasks, Nemotron 3 Nano 30B or Qwen3.5-122B-A10B?

Qwen3.5-122B-A10B has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 76.9 versus 45.2. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for instruction following, Nemotron 3 Nano 30B or Qwen3.5-122B-A10B?

Qwen3.5-122B-A10B has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 93.4 versus 78. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multilingual tasks, Nemotron 3 Nano 30B or Qwen3.5-122B-A10B?

Qwen3.5-122B-A10B has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 82.2 versus 71.8. Inside this category, MMLU-ProX is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 31, 2026

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