# Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B NVFP4 vs Ornith-1.0-35B

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B NVFP4 and Ornith-1.0-35B across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/nemotron-3-5-lightning-30b-a3b-nvfp4-vs-ornith-1-0-35b
- Last updated: September 24, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 4
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5.7

## Quick Verdict

Pick Ornith-1.0-35B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B NVFP4 only makes more sense when its price, context window, or workload-specific category wins matter more than the overall score.

## Summary

- Ornith-1.0-35B leads overall 44 to 19.1.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is Terminal-Bench 2.1 in Agentic, with scores of 23.5% and 64.2%.
- Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B NVFP4 also has the larger context window at 1M.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B NVFP4 | Ornith-1.0-35B |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | NVIDIA | DeepReinforce AI |
| Type | Open Weight | Open Weight |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 1M | 256K |
| Overall Score | 19.1 | null |
| Benchmarks Covered | 13 | 7 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $0.00 / $0.00 | $0.00 / $0.00 |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Not comparable
- Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B NVFP4 public-lane score: 7.3 (Estimated · #104/105)
- Ornith-1.0-35B public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B NVFP4 | Ornith-1.0-35B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 23.5% | 64.2% | Ornith-1.0-35B |
| PinchBench | 83.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| BrowseComp | 36.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| τ³-bench results | 9.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Claw-Eval | Coming soon | 69.8% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Not comparable
- Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B NVFP4 public-lane score: 11.4 (Estimated · #135/135)
- Ornith-1.0-35B public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B NVFP4 | Ornith-1.0-35B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| SWE-bench Verified | 52.8% | 75.6% | Ornith-1.0-35B |
| SWE Multilingual | 36.5% | 69.3% | Ornith-1.0-35B |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 23.5% | 64.2% | Ornith-1.0-35B |
| SciCode | 31.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Pro | Coming soon | 50.4% | Coming soon |
| NL2Repo | Coming soon | 34.6% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Not comparable
- Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B NVFP4 public-lane score: 55.9 (Unranked · 1 rankable row)
- Ornith-1.0-35B public-lane score: Coming soon

### Knowledge

- Winner: Not comparable
- Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B NVFP4 public-lane score: 20.7 (Estimated · #154/158)
- Ornith-1.0-35B public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B NVFP4 | Ornith-1.0-35B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA | 75.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| GPQA-D | 75.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HLE w/o tools | 10.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro | 81.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Not comparable
- Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B NVFP4 public-lane score: 68.5 (#67/124)
- Ornith-1.0-35B public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B NVFP4 | Ornith-1.0-35B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFBench | 72.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Which is better overall, Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B NVFP4 or Ornith-1.0-35B?

Ornith-1.0-35B is ahead overall on BenchLM right now.

### How many benchmarks does Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B NVFP4 cover on BenchLM?

Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B NVFP4 currently has 13 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

### How many benchmarks does Ornith-1.0-35B cover on BenchLM?

Ornith-1.0-35B currently has 7 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

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