Nemotron 3 Ultra vs Qwen3.6-35B-A3B

Updated October 14, 2026. Rank says Nemotron 3 Ultra is ahead. Price, access, and your workload can each overturn that. Public scores include evidence status and uncertainty.

Decision reading

Nemotron 3 Ultra has the higher public point estimate, 47.25 versus 43.86. Their conditional score ranges overlap. These ranges do not establish rank confidence. 7 results are shared. Category rows resting on Estimated evidence or different benchmark sets are marked directional and do not name a winner.

Model A

Nemotron 3 Ultra

NVIDIA

47.25/100

Estimated · Public rank #105

Conditional range 32.9–61.6

Model B

Qwen3.6-35B-A3B

Alibaba

43.86/100

Estimated · Public rank #118

Conditional range 29.5–58.2

Shared results: 7
Nemotron 3 Ultra only: 17
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B only: 35
Like-for-like categories: 0 / 8

Estimated: Nemotron 3 Ultra and Qwen3.6-35B-A3B. Conditional ranges do not establish rank confidence.How the comparison works

Which one for your work

Recommendations appear only when a shared evidence basis or an explicit operating constraint supports the call. Secondary and unsupported use cases stay disclosed below the initial list.

Long documents
Prompts that approach the documented context limit
Nemotron 3 Ultra
Nemotron 3 Ultra has the larger documented context window.
Confidence: documented

Show secondary and unsupported calls

Coding work
Code generation, repair, and software-engineering tasks
Not enough matched evidence
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B is scored on Estimated evidence for coding, so the reading is directional rather than like-for-like.
Confidence: limited
Agentic work
Tool use, computer use, and multi-step task completion
Not enough matched evidence
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B is scored on Estimated evidence for agentic, so the reading is directional rather than like-for-like.
Confidence: limited
Chat turn cost
1K fresh input + 500 output tokens
Not enough matched evidence
A complete comparable API-rate estimate is not available for both models.
Confidence: listed-rates
Cache-heavy agent loop cost
200K cached + 20K fresh input + 10K output tokens
Not enough matched evidence
A complete comparable API-rate estimate is not available for both models.
Confidence: listed-rates
Repository review cost
50K fresh input + 3K output tokens
Not enough matched evidence
A complete comparable API-rate estimate is not available for both models.
Confidence: listed-rates

Which one for a specific job

Choose a job from the LLM Selector's task catalog to see the category row it rests on, under the same basis rules as the table below. A directional row stays directional; choosing a job never creates a winner.

Pick the job you would use them for

The same task catalog as the LLM Selector. Each job names the evidence surface it rests on; nothing here adds a new score.

21.9Nemotron 3 Ultra31.6Qwen3.6-35B-A3B

Directional only · BenchAlign v5.8

Qwen3.6-35B-A3B has the higher coding point estimate. Conditional score ranges do not establish rank confidence.

Coding scores combine specific tasks and setups. Match the editor, harness, and effort to your workflow.

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Same basis rules as the category table below

Shape of the matched evidence

Only shared public evidence is shown. Sparse evidence stays a ruled list rather than being closed into a radar shape.

Too few matched category axes support a radar. The ruled list below shows only shared benchmark results; positions use each benchmark’s normalized display scale when available.

HLEKnowledge
Normalized gap 5.3
Nemotron 3 Ultra:26.7%
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B:21.4%
Nemotron 3 Ultra source Qwen3.6-35B-A3B source
MMLU-ProKnowledge
Normalized gap 1.6
Nemotron 3 Ultra:86.8%
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B:85.2%
Nemotron 3 Ultra source Qwen3.6-35B-A3B source
SWE-bench VerifiedCoding
Normalized gap 1.5
Nemotron 3 Ultra:71.9%
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B:73.4%
Nemotron 3 Ultra source Qwen3.6-35B-A3B source
GPQAKnowledge
Normalized gap 1.0
Nemotron 3 Ultra:87%
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B:86%
Nemotron 3 Ultra source Qwen3.6-35B-A3B source
SWE MultilingualCoding
Normalized gap 0.5
Nemotron 3 Ultra:67.7%
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B:67.2%
Nemotron 3 Ultra source Qwen3.6-35B-A3B source

Bars run 0–100 on each benchmark’s normalized display scale

Category results, on a stated basis

Each row shows the public-lane category score for both models: the BenchAlign v5.8 lane for agentic, coding, and knowledge, and the weighted public rows elsewhere, with the same rank each model page reports. A row is like-for-like only when both scores rest on Supported evidence or the same weighted set. Directional and not-comparable rows remain visible, but they never receive a winner.

Agentic

Directional only

Nemotron 3 Ultra: 28.2; Supported · #95/125
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B: 30.3; Estimated · #91/125
Basis: BenchAlign v5.8 lane · 6 vs 11 public rows
Reading: Directional only

Coding

Directional only

Nemotron 3 Ultra: 21.9; Supported · #115/149
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B: 31.6; Estimated · #91/149
Basis: BenchAlign v5.8 lane · 7 vs 6 public rows
Reading: Directional only

Knowledge

Directional only

Nemotron 3 Ultra: 50.4; Estimated · #77/181
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B: 42.9; Estimated · #105/181
Basis: BenchAlign v5.8 lane · 7 vs 5 public rows
Reading: Directional only

Instruction following

Directional only

Nemotron 3 Ultra: 92.1; #20/144
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B: 78.3; #59/144
Basis: Provisional lane · 1 vs 0 weighted rows
Reading: Directional only

Reasoning

Not comparable

Nemotron 3 Ultra: 70.8; #20/29
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B: 75.1; Unranked · 2 rankable rows
Basis: Provisional lane · 1 vs 0 weighted rows
Reading: Not comparable

Multimodal

Not comparable

Nemotron 3 Ultra: Not ranked
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B: 66.4; #40/54
Basis: Provisional lane · 0 vs 2 weighted rows
Reading: Not comparable

Multilingual

Not comparable

Nemotron 3 Ultra: 89.2; #7/17
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B: Not ranked
Basis: Provisional lane · 1 vs 0 weighted rows
Reading: Not comparable

Math

Not comparable

Nemotron 3 Ultra: Not ranked
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B: 58.4; #10/12
Basis: Provisional lane · 0 vs 3 weighted rows
Reading: Not comparable

Category scores with the server-provided evidence basis for Nemotron 3 Ultra and Qwen3.6-35B-A3B
Category	Nemotron 3 Ultra	Qwen3.6-35B-A3B	Basis	Reading
Agentic	28.2Supported · #95/125	30.3Estimated · #91/125	Directional onlyBenchAlign v5.8 lane · 6 vs 11 public rows	Directional only
Coding	21.9Supported · #115/149	31.6Estimated · #91/149	Directional onlyBenchAlign v5.8 lane · 7 vs 6 public rows	Directional only
Knowledge	50.4Estimated · #77/181	42.9Estimated · #105/181	Directional onlyBenchAlign v5.8 lane · 7 vs 5 public rows	Directional only
Instruction following	92.1#20/144	78.3#59/144	Directional onlyProvisional lane · 1 vs 0 weighted rows	Directional only
Reasoning	70.8#20/29	75.1Unranked · 2 rankable rows	Not comparableProvisional lane · 1 vs 0 weighted rows	Not comparable
Multimodal	Not ranked	66.4#40/54	Not comparableProvisional lane · 0 vs 2 weighted rows	Not comparable
Multilingual	89.2#7/17	Not ranked	Not comparableProvisional lane · 1 vs 0 weighted rows	Not comparable
Math	Not ranked	58.4#10/12	Not comparableProvisional lane · 0 vs 3 weighted rows	Not comparable

Ranks count the models scored in each category’s lane, so the agentic, coding, and knowledge denominators (BenchAlign v5.8) differ from the provisional-lane categories. Unranked scores sit on the provisional lane’s scale but never name a winner. Like-for-like rows within 0.5 points read as a practical tie.

Supported evidence per lane · bars run 0–100Methodology

What each workload costs

Three fixed token mixes turn per-token rates into comparable decisions. Each scenario states context fit and whether cached input had to fall back to the published list-input rate.

Chat turn

1K fresh input + 500 output tokens

Nemotron 3 Ultra: Self-hosted; infrastructure cost varies; Fits in one request
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B: API rate not published; Fits in one request

Nemotron 3 Ultra has no comparable published API token rate. Qwen3.6-35B-A3B has no comparable published API token rate.

Repository review

50K fresh input + 3K output tokens

Nemotron 3 Ultra: Self-hosted; infrastructure cost varies; Fits in one request
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B: API rate not published; Fits in one request

Nemotron 3 Ultra has no comparable published API token rate. Qwen3.6-35B-A3B has no comparable published API token rate.

Cache-heavy agent loop

200K cached + 20K fresh input + 10K output tokens

Nemotron 3 Ultra: Self-hosted; infrastructure cost varies; Fits in one request; Cached-input rate unavailable
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B: API rate not published; Fits in one request; Cached-input rate unavailable

Nemotron 3 Ultra has no comparable published API token rate. Qwen3.6-35B-A3B has no comparable published API token rate.

Cached input falls back to the list input rate only where a cached rate is unpublished

Specification differences

Sourced differences are shown directly. Missing facts stay explicit instead of being inferred from a model name or family.

SpecificationNemotron 3 UltraQwen3.6-35B-A3B

Context window

Maximum documented context; output-token limits may be lower.

Nemotron 3 Ultra

Qwen3.6-35B-A3B

262K

API model ID

Nemotron 3 Ultra

Not sourced

Qwen3.6-35B-A3B

Not sourced

Cached-input rate

A missing cached-input rate falls back to the listed input rate only in the stated workload estimate.

Nemotron 3 Ultra

No comparable hosted API rate

Qwen3.6-35B-A3B

No comparable hosted API rate

Documented inputs

Nemotron 3 Ultra

Not sourced

Qwen3.6-35B-A3B

Not sourced

Documented outputs

Nemotron 3 Ultra

Not sourced

Qwen3.6-35B-A3B

Not sourced

Provider availability

Nemotron 3 Ultra

Not sourced

Qwen3.6-35B-A3B

Not sourced

Reasoning profile

Nemotron 3 Ultra

Reasoning

Qwen3.6-35B-A3B

Reasoning

Weight access

Nemotron 3 Ultra

Open Weight

Qwen3.6-35B-A3B

Open Weight

License

Nemotron 3 Ultra

Open Weight

Qwen3.6-35B-A3B

Open Weight

Release date

Nemotron 3 Ultra

2026-06-04

Qwen3.6-35B-A3B

2026-04-15

If you already use one of these models

Deployment change: The models list different providers, so authentication, endpoint behavior, limits, and feature support may change.
Quality signal: Nemotron 3 Ultra has the higher public point estimate, 47.25 versus 43.86. Their conditional score ranges overlap. These ranges do not establish rank confidence.
Workload cost: A complete comparable API-rate estimate is not available for both models.
Context tradeoff: Nemotron 3 Ultra has the larger documented window (1M).

Run the same representative tasks against both endpoints before changing production traffic.

Questions

Which is better, Nemotron 3 Ultra or Qwen3.6-35B-A3B?

Nemotron 3 Ultra has the higher public point estimate, 47.25 versus 43.86. Their conditional score ranges overlap. These ranges do not establish rank confidence. The page therefore keeps the decision tied to the specific documented workload.

Which is better for coding, Nemotron 3 Ultra or Qwen3.6-35B-A3B?

Qwen3.6-35B-A3B scores higher for coding on the public lane, 31.6 to 21.9. Qwen3.6-35B-A3B is scored on Estimated evidence for coding, so the reading is directional rather than like-for-like. BenchLM does not name a winner for coding from a directional reading; read the shared benchmark rows directly and test the models on the same task set.

Which is better for agentic tasks, Nemotron 3 Ultra or Qwen3.6-35B-A3B?

Qwen3.6-35B-A3B scores higher for agentic tasks on the public lane, 30.3 to 28.2. Qwen3.6-35B-A3B is scored on Estimated evidence for agentic tasks, so the reading is directional rather than like-for-like. BenchLM does not name a winner for agentic tasks from a directional reading; read the shared benchmark rows directly and test the models on the same task set.

Which costs less, Nemotron 3 Ultra or Qwen3.6-35B-A3B?

Both models do not have comparable published API token rates, so this page does not name a universal price winner.

Which has the larger context window, Nemotron 3 Ultra or Qwen3.6-35B-A3B?

Nemotron 3 Ultra has the larger documented context window: 1M, compared with 262K.

Benchmark evidence

The full public result ledger is available for audit without forcing a wide desktop table onto a phone.

Browse raw public benchmark evidence59 rows

Agentic

Terminal-Bench 2.1
Nemotron 3 Ultra56.4%
Source
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B—
Not directly comparable
PinchBench
Nemotron 3 Ultra90.0%
Source
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B—
Not directly comparable
BrowseComp
Nemotron 3 Ultra44.4%
Source
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B—
Not directly comparable
τ³-bench results
Nemotron 3 Ultra70.9%
Source
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B67.2%
Source
Nemotron 3 Ultra leads this result
HLE w/ tools
Nemotron 3 Ultra37.4%
Source
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B—
Not directly comparable
Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals)
Nemotron 3 Ultra50.9%
Source
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B—
Not directly comparable
Terminal-Bench 2.0
Nemotron 3 Ultra—
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B51.5%
Source
Not directly comparable
Claw-Eval
Nemotron 3 Ultra—
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B68.7%
Source
Not directly comparable
QwenClawBench
Nemotron 3 Ultra—
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B52.6%
Source
Not directly comparable
QwenWebBench
Nemotron 3 Ultra—
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B1397
Source
Not directly comparable
VITA-Bench
Nemotron 3 Ultra—
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B35.6%
Source
Not directly comparable
DeepPlanning
Nemotron 3 Ultra—
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B25.9%
Source
Not directly comparable
Toolathlon
Nemotron 3 Ultra—
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B26.9%
Source
Not directly comparable
MCP Atlas
Nemotron 3 Ultra—
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B62.8%
Source
Not directly comparable
WideResearch
Nemotron 3 Ultra—
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B60.1%
Source
Not directly comparable
Gert Labs
Nemotron 3 Ultra—
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B42.65%
Source
Not directly comparable

Coding

SWE-bench Verified
Nemotron 3 Ultra71.9%
Source
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B73.4%
Source
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B leads this result
SWE Multilingual
Nemotron 3 Ultra67.7%
Source
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B67.2%
Source
Nemotron 3 Ultra leads this result
LiveCodeBench v6
Nemotron 3 Ultra89.0%
Source
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B80.4%
Source
Nemotron 3 Ultra leads this result
SciCode
Nemotron 3 Ultra44.6%
Source
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B—
Not directly comparable
Terminal-Bench 2.1
Nemotron 3 Ultra56.4%
Source
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B—
Not directly comparable
LiveCodeBench (Vals)
Nemotron 3 Ultra86.0%
Source
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B—
Not directly comparable
SWE-bench (Vals)
Nemotron 3 Ultra69.0%
Source
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B—
Not directly comparable
SWE-bench Pro
Nemotron 3 Ultra—
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B49.5%
Source
Not directly comparable
Terminal-Bench 2.0
Nemotron 3 Ultra—
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B51.5%
Source
Not directly comparable
NL2Repo
Nemotron 3 Ultra—
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B29.4%
Source
Not directly comparable

Reasoning

CritPt
Nemotron 3 Ultra3.1%
Source
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B—
Not directly comparable
LongBench v2
Nemotron 3 Ultra61.9%
Source
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B—
Not directly comparable

Multimodal

MMMU
Nemotron 3 Ultra—
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B81.7%
Source
Not directly comparable
MMMU-Pro
Nemotron 3 Ultra—
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B75.3%
Source
Not directly comparable
RealWorldQA
Nemotron 3 Ultra—
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B85.3%
Source
Not directly comparable
OmniDocBench 1.5
Nemotron 3 Ultra—
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B89.9%
Source
Not directly comparable
CharXiv
Nemotron 3 Ultra—
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B78%
Source
Not directly comparable
SimpleVQA
Nemotron 3 Ultra—
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B58.9%
Source
Not directly comparable
CC-OCR
Nemotron 3 Ultra—
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B81.9%
Source
Not directly comparable
AI2D_TEST
Nemotron 3 Ultra—
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B92.7%
Source
Not directly comparable
RefCOCO (avg)
Nemotron 3 Ultra—
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B92.0%
Source
Not directly comparable
ODINW13
Nemotron 3 Ultra—
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B50.8%
Source
Not directly comparable
Video-MME (with subtitle)
Nemotron 3 Ultra—
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B86.6%
Source
Not directly comparable
Video-MME (w/o subtitle)
Nemotron 3 Ultra—
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B82.5%
Source
Not directly comparable
VideoMMMU
Nemotron 3 Ultra—
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B83.7%
Source
Not directly comparable
MLVU (M-Avg)
Nemotron 3 Ultra—
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B86.2%
Source
Not directly comparable

Knowledge

GPQA
Nemotron 3 Ultra87%
Source
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B86%
Source
Nemotron 3 Ultra leads this result
GPQA-D
Nemotron 3 Ultra87.0%
Source
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B—
Not directly comparable
HLE
Nemotron 3 Ultra26.7%
Source
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B21.4%
Source
Nemotron 3 Ultra leads this result
HLE w/o tools
Nemotron 3 Ultra26.7%
Source
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B—
Not directly comparable
MMLU-Pro
Nemotron 3 Ultra86.8%
Source
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B85.2%
Source
Nemotron 3 Ultra leads this result
GPQA Diamond (Vals)
Nemotron 3 Ultra86.1%
Source
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B—
Not directly comparable
MMLU-Pro (Vals)
Nemotron 3 Ultra85.8%
Source
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B—
Not directly comparable
SuperGPQA
Nemotron 3 Ultra—
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B64.7%
Source
Not directly comparable
C-Eval
Nemotron 3 Ultra—
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B90%
Source
Not directly comparable

Multilingual

MMLU-ProX
Nemotron 3 Ultra83%
Source
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B—
Not directly comparable

Instruction following

IFBench
Nemotron 3 Ultra81.7%
Source
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B—
Not directly comparable

Math

HMMT Feb 2025
Nemotron 3 Ultra—
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B90.7%
Source
Not directly comparable
HMMT Nov 2025
Nemotron 3 Ultra—
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B89.1%
Source
Not directly comparable
HMMT Feb 2026
Nemotron 3 Ultra—
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B83.6%
Source
Not directly comparable
MMAnswerBench
Nemotron 3 Ultra—
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B78.9%
Source
Not directly comparable
AIME26
Nemotron 3 Ultra—
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B92.7%
Source
Not directly comparable
FrontierMath v2 (Tiers 1-3)
Nemotron 3 Ultra—
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B20.351%
Source
Not directly comparable

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Last updated October 14, 2026

Nemotron 3 Ultra vs Qwen3.6-35B-A3B

Decision reading

Which one for your work

Long documents

Coding work

Agentic work

Chat turn cost

Cache-heavy agent loop cost

Repository review cost

Which one for a specific job

What is actually comparable

Shape of the matched evidence

Category results, on a stated basis

Agentic

Coding

Knowledge

Instruction following

Reasoning

Multimodal

Multilingual

Math

What each workload costs

Chat turn

Repository review

Cache-heavy agent loop

Specification differences

Context window

API model ID

Cached-input rate

Documented inputs

Documented outputs

Provider availability

Reasoning profile

Weight access

License

Release date

If you already use one of these models

Questions

Which is better, Nemotron 3 Ultra or Qwen3.6-35B-A3B?

Which is better for coding, Nemotron 3 Ultra or Qwen3.6-35B-A3B?

Which is better for agentic tasks, Nemotron 3 Ultra or Qwen3.6-35B-A3B?

Which costs less, Nemotron 3 Ultra or Qwen3.6-35B-A3B?

Which has the larger context window, Nemotron 3 Ultra or Qwen3.6-35B-A3B?

Benchmark evidence

Agentic

Coding

Reasoning

Multimodal

Knowledge

Multilingual

Instruction following

Math

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