# Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B BF16 vs Qwen3.5-27B

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B BF16 and Qwen3.5-27B across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/nemotron-3-5-bolt-74b-a9b-bf16-vs-qwen3-5-27b
- Last updated: October 16, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 1
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5.8

## Quick Verdict

Evidence is too thin for a benchmark verdict: Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B BF16 and Qwen3.5-27B share only 1 sourced benchmark row.

## Summary

- Only 1 shared sourced benchmark row is available. That is not enough for a broad capability verdict, so this mirror does not name an overall winner.
- Qwen3.5-27B has the lower published output-token price.
- Qwen3.5-27B has the larger published context window at 262K.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B BF16 | Qwen3.5-27B |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | NVIDIA | Alibaba |
| Type | Open Weight | Open Weight |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 256K | 262K |
| Independent public score (not head-to-head) | null | 48.4 |
| Benchmarks Covered | 8 | 20 |
| Pricing (input/output) | Pricing unavailable / Pricing unavailable | $0.00 / $0.00 |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B BF16 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.5-27B public-lane score: 36.9 (Estimated · #75/128)

| Benchmark | Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B BF16 | Qwen3.5-27B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 53.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| τ³-bench results | 17.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| BrowseComp | 70% | 61% | Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B BF16 |
| PinchBench | 90.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MCP Atlas | 55.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| WebArena | 50.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | Coming soon | 41.6% | Coming soon |
| OSWorld-Verified | Coming soon | 56.2% | Coming soon |
| Gert Labs | Coming soon | 39.41% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B BF16 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.5-27B public-lane score: 32.2 (Estimated · #86/150)

| Benchmark | Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B BF16 | Qwen3.5-27B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| SWE-bench Verified | Coming soon | 72.4% | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench v6 | Coming soon | 80.7% | Coming soon |
| SWE-Rebench | Coming soon | 58.9% | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | Coming soon | 41.6% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B BF16 public-lane score: 72.1 (Unranked · 1 rankable row)
- Qwen3.5-27B public-lane score: 71.1 (Unranked · 3 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B BF16 | Qwen3.5-27B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| LongBench v2 | Coming soon | 60.6% | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B BF16 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.5-27B public-lane score: 67.5 (#37/54)

| Benchmark | Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B BF16 | Qwen3.5-27B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMMU | Coming soon | 82.3% | Coming soon |
| MMVU | Coming soon | 73.3% | Coming soon |
| MMMU-Pro | Coming soon | 75% | Coming soon |
| CharXiv | Coming soon | 79.5% | Coming soon |
| MathVision | Coming soon | 86.0% | Coming soon |
| V* | Coming soon | 93.7% | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B BF16 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.5-27B public-lane score: 45.8 (Supported · #95/184)

| Benchmark | Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B BF16 | Qwen3.5-27B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA-D | 88.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HLE w/o tools | 28.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro | Coming soon | 86.1% | Coming soon |
| SuperGPQA | Coming soon | 65.6% | Coming soon |
| GPQA | Coming soon | 85.5% | Coming soon |

### Multilingual

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B BF16 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.5-27B public-lane score: 87.1 (#10/17)

| Benchmark | Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B BF16 | Qwen3.5-27B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMLU-ProX | Coming soon | 82.2% | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B BF16 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.5-27B public-lane score: 92.9 (#14/148)

| Benchmark | Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B BF16 | Qwen3.5-27B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFEval | Coming soon | 95% | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Is there enough evidence to pick between Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B BF16 and Qwen3.5-27B?

Not yet. The models share only 1 sourced benchmark row, so this mirror reports the available measurements and metadata without naming a broad winner.

### What can I compare safely on this page?

Published pricing, context windows, model type, and individual shared benchmark rows are directly comparable. Independent overall scores and non-overlapping benchmark coverage are labeled separately and should not be read as a controlled head-to-head result.

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