# Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B BF16 vs Qwen3.5 397B

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B BF16 and Qwen3.5 397B across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/nemotron-3-5-bolt-74b-a9b-bf16-vs-qwen3-5-397b
- Last updated: October 16, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 3
- 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 397B share only 3 sourced benchmark rows.

## Summary

- Only 3 shared sourced benchmark rows are available. That is not enough for a broad capability verdict, so this mirror does not name an overall winner.
- Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B BF16 has the lower published output-token price.
- Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B BF16 has the larger published context window at 256K.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B BF16 | Qwen3.5 397B |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | NVIDIA | Alibaba |
| Type | Open Weight | Open Weight |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Non-Reasoning |
| Context | 256K | 128K |
| Independent public score (not head-to-head) | null | 55.34 |
| Benchmarks Covered | 8 | 62 |
| Pricing (input/output) | Pricing unavailable / Pricing unavailable | $0.60 / $3.60 |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B BF16 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.5 397B public-lane score: 43.9 (Estimated · #61/128)

| Benchmark | Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B BF16 | Qwen3.5 397B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 53.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| τ³-bench results | 17.0% | 68.4% | Qwen3.5 397B |
| BrowseComp | 70% | 69% | Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B BF16 |
| PinchBench | 90.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MCP Atlas | 55.6% | 46.1% | Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B BF16 |
| WebArena | 50.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | Coming soon | 52.5% | Coming soon |
| OSWorld-Verified | Coming soon | 62.2% | Coming soon |
| Claw-Eval | Coming soon | 56.8% | Coming soon |
| QwenClawBench | Coming soon | 51.8% | Coming soon |
| VITA-Bench | Coming soon | 43.7% | Coming soon |
| DeepPlanning | Coming soon | 37.6% | Coming soon |
| Toolathlon | Coming soon | 36.3% | Coming soon |
| MCP-Tasks | Coming soon | 74.2% | Coming soon |
| WideResearch | Coming soon | 74.0% | Coming soon |
| Gert Labs | Coming soon | 46.76% | Coming soon |
| ResearchClawBench | Coming soon | 14.2% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B BF16 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.5 397B public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B BF16 | Qwen3.5 397B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| SWE-bench Verified | Coming soon | 76.2% | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench v6 | Coming soon | 83.6% | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Pro | Coming soon | 50.9% | Coming soon |
| SWE Multilingual | Coming soon | 69.3% | Coming soon |
| NL2Repo | Coming soon | 32.2% | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | Coming soon | 52.5% | 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 397B public-lane score: 74.9 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B BF16 | Qwen3.5 397B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| LongBench v2 | Coming soon | 63.2% | Coming soon |
| AI-Needle | Coming soon | 68.7% | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B BF16 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.5 397B public-lane score: 73.6 (#29/54)

| Benchmark | Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B BF16 | Qwen3.5 397B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMMU | Coming soon | 85.0% | Coming soon |
| MMMU-Pro | Coming soon | 79% | Coming soon |
| RealWorldQA | Coming soon | 83.9% | Coming soon |
| OmniDocBench 1.5 | Coming soon | 90.8% | Coming soon |
| Video-MME (with subtitle) | Coming soon | 87.5% | Coming soon |
| Video-MME (w/o subtitle) | Coming soon | 83.7% | Coming soon |
| MathVision | Coming soon | 88.6% | Coming soon |
| We-Math | Coming soon | 87.9% | Coming soon |
| DynaMath | Coming soon | 86.3% | Coming soon |
| SimpleVQA | Coming soon | 67.1% | Coming soon |
| CharXiv | Coming soon | 80.8% | Coming soon |
| MMLongBench-Doc | Coming soon | 61.5% | Coming soon |
| CC-OCR | Coming soon | 82.0% | Coming soon |
| AI2D_TEST | Coming soon | 93.9% | Coming soon |
| CountBench | Coming soon | 97.2% | Coming soon |
| RefCOCO (avg) | Coming soon | 92.3% | Coming soon |
| ODINW13 | Coming soon | 47.0% | Coming soon |
| ERQA | Coming soon | 67.5% | Coming soon |
| VideoMMMU | Coming soon | 84.7% | Coming soon |
| MLVU (M-Avg) | Coming soon | 86.7% | Coming soon |
| ScreenSpot Pro | Coming soon | 65.6% | Coming soon |
| V* | Coming soon | 95.8% | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B BF16 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.5 397B public-lane score: 53 (Estimated · #68/184)

| Benchmark | Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B BF16 | Qwen3.5 397B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA-D | 88.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HLE w/o tools | 28.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| GPQA | Coming soon | 88.4% | Coming soon |
| SuperGPQA | Coming soon | 70.4% | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro | Coming soon | 87.8% | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Redux | Coming soon | 94.9% | Coming soon |
| C-Eval | Coming soon | 93% | Coming soon |
| HLE | Coming soon | 28.7% | Coming soon |

### Multilingual

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B BF16 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.5 397B public-lane score: 93.8 (#5/17)

| Benchmark | Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B BF16 | Qwen3.5 397B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMLU-ProX | Coming soon | 84.7% | Coming soon |
| NOVA-63 | Coming soon | 59.1% | Coming soon |
| INCLUDE | Coming soon | 85.6% | Coming soon |
| PolyMath | Coming soon | 73.3% | Coming soon |
| MAXIFE | Coming soon | 88.2% | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B BF16 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.5 397B public-lane score: 79.9 (#59/148)

| Benchmark | Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B BF16 | Qwen3.5 397B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFEval | Coming soon | 92.6% | Coming soon |
| IFBench | Coming soon | 76.5% | Coming soon |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B BF16 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.5 397B public-lane score: 81.7 (Unranked · 5 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B BF16 | Qwen3.5 397B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| AIME26 | Coming soon | 93.3% | Coming soon |
| HMMT Feb 2025 | Coming soon | 94.8% | Coming soon |
| HMMT Nov 2025 | Coming soon | 92.7% | Coming soon |
| HMMT Feb 2026 | Coming soon | 87.9% | Coming soon |
| MMAnswerBench | Coming soon | 80.9% | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Is there enough evidence to pick between Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B BF16 and Qwen3.5 397B?

Not yet. The models share only 3 sourced benchmark rows, 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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