Model comparison
Nemotron 3 Ultra vs Qwen3.6-35B-A3B
Head-to-head evidence from 24 shared benchmark results across 5 categories. Overall scores shown here use the public BenchAlign v5 ranking lane.
Verified leaderboard positions: Nemotron 3 Ultra #24; Qwen3.6-35B-A3B #31
BenchAlign evidence: Nemotron 3 Ultra not scored; Qwen3.6-35B-A3B estimated. Intervals and evidence labels describe ranking uncertainty, not a guarantee for a specific workload.
Evidence parity. Nemotron 3 Ultra and Qwen3.6-35B-A3B share 24 comparable benchmark results. 3 of 8 categories are comparable. 15 results are unique to Nemotron 3 Ultra; 34 to Qwen3.6-35B-A3B.
Updated July 16, 2026- Shared results
- 24
- Nemotron 3 Ultra only
- 15
- Qwen3.6-35B-A3B only
- 34
- Comparable categories
- 3 / 8
Pick Nemotron 3 Ultra if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Qwen3.6-35B-A3B only becomes the better choice if coding is the priority.
Confidence note. This is a partial-evidence comparison with 24 shared benchmark results across 5 evidence categories; 3 of 8 categories currently have scoreable aggregates for both models. Treat the verdict as directional until coverage is more balanced.
Why this result
Nemotron 3 Ultra has the cleaner provisional overall profile here, landing at 60 versus 58. It is a real lead, but still close enough that category-level strengths matter more than the headline number.
Nemotron 3 Ultra's sharpest advantage is in knowledge, where it averages 54.2 against 51.8. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is HLE, 26.7% to 21.4%. Qwen3.6-35B-A3B does hit back in coding, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.
Nemotron 3 Ultra gives you the larger context window at 1M, compared with 262K for Qwen3.6-35B-A3B.
Category breakdown
Exact category averages are shown below. Not measured means BenchLM does not have enough sourced public coverage for that model and category.
| Category | Nemotron 3 Ultra | Δ | Qwen3.6-35B-A3B |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coding | Nemotron 3 Ultra58.3 | Margin→ 15.5 | Qwen3.6-35B-A3B73.8 |
| Knowledge | Nemotron 3 Ultra54.2 | Margin← 2.4 | Qwen3.6-35B-A3B51.8 |
| Agentic | Nemotron 3 Ultra51.3 | Margin→ 0.2 | Qwen3.6-35B-A3B51.5 |
| Reasoning | Nemotron 3 Ultra61.9 | MarginNo overlap | Qwen3.6-35B-A3BNot measured |
| Math | Nemotron 3 UltraNot measured | MarginNo overlap | Qwen3.6-35B-A3B88.2 |
| Multilingual | Nemotron 3 Ultra83.0 | MarginNo overlap | Qwen3.6-35B-A3BNot measured |
| Multimodal | Nemotron 3 UltraNot measured | MarginNo overlap | Qwen3.6-35B-A3B76.3 |
| Inst. Following | Nemotron 3 Ultra81.7 | MarginNo overlap | Qwen3.6-35B-A3BNot measured |
Decisive benchmark drivers
The largest measured benchmark gaps in this matchup, with exact reported values.
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HLE
KnowledgeA 26.7%B 21.4%Winner: Nemotron 3 UltraΔ 5.3HLE: Nemotron 3 Ultra scored 26.7%; Qwen3.6-35B-A3B scored 21.4%. Nemotron 3 Ultra wins this benchmark. - Source ↗
Terminal-Bench 2.0
AgenticA 56.4%B 51.5%Winner: Nemotron 3 UltraΔ 4.9Terminal-Bench 2.0: Nemotron 3 Ultra scored 56.4%; Qwen3.6-35B-A3B scored 51.5%. Nemotron 3 Ultra wins this benchmark. - Source ↗
MMLU-Pro
KnowledgeA 86.8%B 85.2%Winner: Nemotron 3 UltraΔ 1.6MMLU-Pro: Nemotron 3 Ultra scored 86.8%; Qwen3.6-35B-A3B scored 85.2%. Nemotron 3 Ultra wins this benchmark. - Source ↗
SWE-bench Verified
CodingA 71.9%B 73.4%Winner: Qwen3.6-35B-A3BΔ 1.5SWE-bench Verified: Nemotron 3 Ultra scored 71.9%; Qwen3.6-35B-A3B scored 73.4%. Qwen3.6-35B-A3B wins this benchmark. - Source ↗
GPQA
KnowledgeA 87%B 86%Winner: Nemotron 3 UltraΔ 1GPQA: Nemotron 3 Ultra scored 87%; Qwen3.6-35B-A3B scored 86%. Nemotron 3 Ultra wins this benchmark.
Operational comparison
Runtime and commercial metrics are compared only when both models have a complete sourced value.
| Metric | Nemotron 3 Ultra | Qwen3.6-35B-A3B | Comparison |
|---|---|---|---|
| Input / output priceUSD per 1M tokens | Nemotron 3 Ultra$0 input / $0 output | Qwen3.6-35B-A3BNot available | A complete price comparison is not available. |
| Generation speedtokens per second | Nemotron 3 UltraNot available | Qwen3.6-35B-A3BNot available | A complete speed comparison is not available. |
| First-answer latencyseconds to first token | Nemotron 3 UltraNot available | Qwen3.6-35B-A3BNot available | A complete latency comparison is not available. |
| Context windowmaximum listed tokens | Nemotron 3 Ultra1M | Qwen3.6-35B-A3B262K | Nemotron 3 Ultra lists the larger context window. |
Benchmark Deep Dive
AgenticQwen3.6-35B-A3B wins21 benchmarks
| Benchmark | Nemotron 3 Ultra | Qwen3.6-35B-A3B | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| Terminal-Bench 2.0Source | 56.4% | 51.5% | Nemotron 3 Ultra leads |
| PinchBenchSource | 90.0% | — | Not comparable |
| BrowseCompSource | 44.4% | — | Not comparable |
| τ³-bench resultsSource | 70.9% | 67.2% | Nemotron 3 Ultra leads |
| GDPval-AASource | 33.2% | 27.4% | Nemotron 3 Ultra leads |
| HLE w/ toolsSource | 37.4% | — | Not comparable |
| AA Agentic IndexSource | 27.4% | 21.4% | Nemotron 3 Ultra leads |
| τ²-bench resultsSource | 83.3% | 95.3% | Qwen3.6-35B-A3B leads |
| GDPval-AASource | 1164 | 1049 | Nemotron 3 Ultra leads |
| AA BriefcaseSource | 870 | — | Not comparable |
| AA EnterpriseOps-GymSource | 28.9% | — | Not comparable |
| AA Harvey LABSource | 3.3% | — | Not comparable |
| Claw-EvalSource | — | 68.7% | Not comparable |
| QwenClawBenchSource | — | 52.6% | Not comparable |
| QwenWebBenchSource | — | 1397 | Not comparable |
| VITA-BenchSource | — | 35.6% | Not comparable |
| DeepPlanningSource | — | 25.9% | Not comparable |
| ToolathlonSource | — | 26.9% | Not comparable |
| MCP AtlasSource | — | 62.8% | Not comparable |
| WideResearchSource | — | 60.1% | Not comparable |
| Gert LabsSource | — | 42.65% | Not comparable |
CodingQwen3.6-35B-A3B wins11 benchmarks
| Benchmark | Nemotron 3 Ultra | Qwen3.6-35B-A3B | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| SWE-bench VerifiedSource | 71.9% | 73.4% | Qwen3.6-35B-A3B leads |
| SWE MultilingualSource | 67.7% | 67.2% | Nemotron 3 Ultra leads |
| LiveCodeBench v6Source | 89.0% | — | Not comparable |
| SciCodeSource | 44.6% | — | Not comparable |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0Source | 56.4% | 51.5% | Nemotron 3 Ultra leads |
| AA Coding IndexSource | 49.3% | 41.9% | Nemotron 3 Ultra leads |
| Terminal-Bench HardSource | 36.4% | 34.8% | Nemotron 3 Ultra leads |
| AA-SciCodeSource | 39.9% | 35.8% | Nemotron 3 Ultra leads |
| SWE-bench ProSource | — | 49.5% | Not comparable |
| LiveCodeBenchSource | — | 80.4% | Not comparable |
| NL2RepoSource | — | 29.4% | Not comparable |
Reasoning3 benchmarks
KnowledgeNemotron 3 Ultra wins14 benchmarks
| Benchmark | Nemotron 3 Ultra | Qwen3.6-35B-A3B | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| GPQASource | 87% | 86% | Nemotron 3 Ultra leads |
| GPQA-DSource | 87.0% | — | Not comparable |
| HLESource | 26.7% | 21.4% | Nemotron 3 Ultra leads |
| HLE w/o toolsSource | 26.7% | — | Not comparable |
| MMLU-ProSource | 86.8% | 85.2% | Nemotron 3 Ultra leads |
| AA-Omniscience AccuracySource | 21.6% | 18.9% | Nemotron 3 Ultra leads |
| Artificial Analysis Intelligence IndexSource | 37.8% | 31.6% | Nemotron 3 Ultra leads |
| AA-GPQA DiamondSource | 86.7% | 84.1% | Nemotron 3 Ultra leads |
| AA-HLESource | 26.6% | 20.2% | Nemotron 3 Ultra leads |
| AA-Omniscience IndexSource | -0.8% | -21.4% | Nemotron 3 Ultra leads |
| AA-Omniscience Hallucination RateSource | 28.5% | 49.7% | Nemotron 3 Ultra leads |
| AA Openness IndexSource | 83.3% | — | Not comparable |
| SuperGPQASource | — | 64.7% | Not comparable |
| C-EvalSource | — | 90% | Not comparable |
Math5 benchmarks
Multilingual1 benchmarks
| Benchmark | Nemotron 3 Ultra | Qwen3.6-35B-A3B | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| MMLU-ProXSource | 83% | — | Not comparable |
Multimodal16 benchmarks
| Benchmark | Nemotron 3 Ultra | Qwen3.6-35B-A3B | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| Design Arena WebsiteSource | 1132 | — | Not comparable |
| MMMUSource | — | 81.7% | Not comparable |
| MMMU-ProSource | — | 75.3% | Not comparable |
| RealWorldQASource | — | 85.3% | Not comparable |
| OmniDocBench 1.5Source | — | 89.9% | Not comparable |
| CharXivSource | — | 78% | Not comparable |
| SimpleVQASource | — | 58.9% | Not comparable |
| CC-OCRSource | — | 81.9% | Not comparable |
| AI2D_TESTSource | — | 92.7% | Not comparable |
| RefCOCO (avg)Source | — | 92.0% | Not comparable |
| ODINW13Source | — | 50.8% | Not comparable |
| Video-MME (with subtitle)Source | — | 86.6% | Not comparable |
| Video-MME (w/o subtitle)Source | — | 82.5% | Not comparable |
| VideoMMMUSource | — | 83.7% | Not comparable |
| MLVU (M-Avg)Source | — | 86.2% | Not comparable |
| AA-MMMU-ProSource | — | 75.0% | Not comparable |
Frequently Asked Questions (4)
Which is better, Nemotron 3 Ultra or Qwen3.6-35B-A3B?
Nemotron 3 Ultra is ahead on BenchLM's provisional leaderboard, 60 to 58. The biggest single separator in this matchup is HLE, where the scores are 26.7% and 21.4%.
Which is better for knowledge tasks, Nemotron 3 Ultra or Qwen3.6-35B-A3B?
Nemotron 3 Ultra has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 54.2 versus 51.8. Inside this category, AA-Omniscience Hallucination Rate is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Which is better for coding, Nemotron 3 Ultra or Qwen3.6-35B-A3B?
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 73.8 versus 58.3. Inside this category, AA Coding Index is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Which is better for agentic tasks, Nemotron 3 Ultra or Qwen3.6-35B-A3B?
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 51.5 versus 51.3. Inside this category, GDPval-AA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
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