# Nemotron 3.5 Bolt E4B BF16 vs QwQ-32B

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Nemotron 3.5 Bolt E4B BF16 and QwQ-32B across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/nemotron-3-5-bolt-e4b-bf16-vs-qwq-32b
- Last updated: October 23, 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 E4B BF16 and QwQ-32B 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.
- QwQ-32B has the larger published context window at 131K.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Nemotron 3.5 Bolt E4B BF16 | QwQ-32B |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | NVIDIA | Alibaba |
| Type | Open Weight | Open Weight |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 64K | 131K |
| Independent public score (not head-to-head) | null | null |
| Benchmarks Covered | 19 | 11 |
| Pricing (input/output) | Pricing unavailable / Pricing unavailable | N/A |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Nemotron 3.5 Bolt E4B BF16 public-lane score: Coming soon
- QwQ-32B public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Nemotron 3.5 Bolt E4B BF16 | QwQ-32B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| BFCL v3 | 68.5% | 66.4% | Nemotron 3.5 Bolt E4B BF16 |
| When2Call Multi-Turn | 63.36% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ToolSandbox | 68.77% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| τ²-bench results | 55.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| RelyToolBench | 63.16% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Nemotron 3.5 Bolt E4B BF16 public-lane score: Coming soon
- QwQ-32B public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Nemotron 3.5 Bolt E4B BF16 | QwQ-32B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| LiveCodeBench v5 | Coming soon | 62.7% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Nemotron 3.5 Bolt E4B BF16 public-lane score: 29 (Unranked · 1 rankable row)
- QwQ-32B public-lane score: 43.3 (Unranked · 1 rankable row)

| Benchmark | Nemotron 3.5 Bolt E4B BF16 | QwQ-32B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| RULER (64K) | 86.99% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LongMemEval | 72.10% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LongBench v2 | 50.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Nemotron 3.5 Bolt E4B BF16 public-lane score: Coming soon
- QwQ-32B public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Nemotron 3.5 Bolt E4B BF16 | QwQ-32B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GaRAGe | 42.61% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| RAGTruth (provider reports) | 77.59% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Redux | Coming soon | 90% | Coming soon |
| GPQA | Coming soon | 65.6% | Coming soon |
| C-Eval | Coming soon | 88.4% | Coming soon |
| MMMLU | Coming soon | 80.9% | Coming soon |

### Multilingual

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Nemotron 3.5 Bolt E4B BF16 public-lane score: Coming soon
- QwQ-32B public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Nemotron 3.5 Bolt E4B BF16 | QwQ-32B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| INCLUDE | Coming soon | 69.7% | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Nemotron 3.5 Bolt E4B BF16 public-lane score: Coming soon
- QwQ-32B public-lane score: 44.9 (#110/153)

| Benchmark | Nemotron 3.5 Bolt E4B BF16 | QwQ-32B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MultiChallenge (provider reports) | 53.10% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Brevity Benchmark | 82.52% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| RoleBench | 67.05% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| RoleMRC | 80.63% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| IHEval | 84.79% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| AgentIF | 25.81% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| InverseIFEval | 46.84% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| StructEval-T | 80.40% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SysBench | 67.88% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| IFEval | Coming soon | 83.9% | Coming soon |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Nemotron 3.5 Bolt E4B BF16 public-lane score: Coming soon
- QwQ-32B public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Nemotron 3.5 Bolt E4B BF16 | QwQ-32B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MATH-500 | Coming soon | 98% | Coming soon |
| AIME 2024 | Coming soon | 79.5% | Coming soon |
| AIME 2025 | Coming soon | 69.5% | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Is there enough evidence to pick between Nemotron 3.5 Bolt E4B BF16 and QwQ-32B?

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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