# Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B BF16 vs Sakana Fugu

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

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/nemotron-3-5-bolt-74b-a9b-bf16-vs-sakana-fugu
- 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 Sakana Fugu 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.
- Sakana Fugu has the larger published context window at 1M.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B BF16 | Sakana Fugu |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | NVIDIA | Sakana AI |
| Type | Open Weight | Proprietary |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 256K | 1M |
| Independent public score (not head-to-head) | null | null |
| Benchmarks Covered | 8 | 11 |
| Pricing (input/output) | Pricing unavailable / Pricing unavailable | Pricing unavailable / Pricing unavailable |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B BF16 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Sakana Fugu public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B BF16 | Sakana Fugu | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 53.9% | 80.2% | Sakana Fugu |
| τ³-bench results | 17.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| BrowseComp | 70% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| PinchBench | 90.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MCP Atlas | 55.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| WebArena | 50.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B BF16 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Sakana Fugu public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B BF16 | Sakana Fugu | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| SWE-bench Pro | Coming soon | 59% | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | Coming soon | 80.2% | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench v6 | Coming soon | 92.9% | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench Pro | Coming soon | 87.8% | Coming soon |
| SciCode | Coming soon | 60.1% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B BF16 public-lane score: 72.1 (Unranked · 1 rankable row)
- Sakana Fugu public-lane score: 78.7 (Unranked · 1 rankable row)

| Benchmark | Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B BF16 | Sakana Fugu | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MRCRv2 | Coming soon | 86.6% | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B BF16 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Sakana Fugu public-lane score: 73.2 (Unranked · 1 rankable row)

| Benchmark | Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B BF16 | Sakana Fugu | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| CharXiv | Coming soon | 85.1% | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B BF16 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Sakana Fugu public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B BF16 | Sakana Fugu | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA-D | 88.8% | 95.5% | Sakana Fugu |
| HLE w/o tools | 28.7% | 47.2% | Sakana Fugu |
| GPQA | Coming soon | 95.5% | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Is there enough evidence to pick between Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B BF16 and Sakana Fugu?

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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