Side-by-side benchmark comparison across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, and math workflows.
Step 3.5 Flash is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 66 to 59. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.
Step 3.5 Flash's sharpest advantage is in mathematics, where it averages 84.5 against 72.6. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is MuSR, 82 to 60.
Nemotron 3 Super 100B gives you the larger context window at 1M, compared with 256K for Step 3.5 Flash.
Pick Step 3.5 Flash if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Nemotron 3 Super 100B only becomes the better choice if you need the larger 1M context window.
Step 3.5 Flash
60.2
Nemotron 3 Super 100B
56.6
Step 3.5 Flash
47.1
Nemotron 3 Super 100B
41.3
Step 3.5 Flash
66.7
Nemotron 3 Super 100B
60.4
Step 3.5 Flash
78.3
Nemotron 3 Super 100B
69.5
Step 3.5 Flash
60.8
Nemotron 3 Super 100B
52.8
Step 3.5 Flash
87
Nemotron 3 Super 100B
84
Step 3.5 Flash
82.8
Nemotron 3 Super 100B
79.5
Step 3.5 Flash
84.5
Nemotron 3 Super 100B
72.6
Step 3.5 Flash is ahead overall, 66 to 59. The biggest single separator in this matchup is MuSR, where the scores are 82 and 60.
Step 3.5 Flash has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 60.8 versus 52.8. Inside this category, MMLU is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Step 3.5 Flash has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 47.1 versus 41.3. Inside this category, HumanEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Step 3.5 Flash has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 84.5 versus 72.6. Inside this category, AIME 2023 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Step 3.5 Flash has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 78.3 versus 69.5. Inside this category, MuSR is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Step 3.5 Flash has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 60.2 versus 56.6. Inside this category, Terminal-Bench 2.0 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Step 3.5 Flash has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 66.7 versus 60.4. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Step 3.5 Flash has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 87 versus 84. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Step 3.5 Flash has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 82.8 versus 79.5. Inside this category, MMLU-ProX is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
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