# Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B NVFP4 vs Qwen3.5 397B

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B NVFP4 and Qwen3.5 397B across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/nemotron-3-5-lightning-30b-a3b-nvfp4-vs-qwen3-5-397b
- Last updated: September 24, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 5
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5.7

## Quick Verdict

Pick Qwen3.5 397B 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

- Qwen3.5 397B leads overall 51 to 19.1.
- The clearest category separation is in instruction following, where the averages are 68.5 for Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B NVFP4 and 0 for Qwen3.5 397B.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is τ³-bench results in Agentic, with scores of 9.5% and 68.4%.
- Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B NVFP4 is the cheaper option on output tokens, which matters if you expect large responses or heavy interactive use.
- 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 | Qwen3.5 397B |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | NVIDIA | Alibaba |
| Type | Open Weight | Open Weight |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Non-Reasoning |
| Context | 1M | 128K |
| Overall Score | 19.1 | null |
| Benchmarks Covered | 13 | 38 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $0.00 / $0.00 | $0.60 / $3.60 |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Not comparable
- Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B NVFP4 public-lane score: 7.3 (Estimated · #104/105)
- Qwen3.5 397B public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B NVFP4 | Qwen3.5 397B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 23.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| PinchBench | 83.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| BrowseComp | 36.8% | 62% | Qwen3.5 397B |
| τ³-bench results | 9.5% | 68.4% | Qwen3.5 397B |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | Coming soon | 52.5% | 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 Atlas | Coming soon | 46.1% | 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: Not comparable
- Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B NVFP4 public-lane score: 11.4 (Estimated · #135/135)
- Qwen3.5 397B public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B NVFP4 | Qwen3.5 397B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| SWE-bench Verified | 52.8% | 76.2% | Qwen3.5 397B |
| SWE Multilingual | 36.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 23.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SciCode | 31.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench v6 | Coming soon | 83.6% | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Pro | Coming soon | 50.9% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Not comparable
- Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B NVFP4 public-lane score: 55.9 (Unranked · 1 rankable row)
- Qwen3.5 397B public-lane score: 60.9 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B NVFP4 | Qwen3.5 397B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| LongBench v2 | Coming soon | 63.2% | Coming soon |
| AI-Needle | Coming soon | 68.7% | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Not comparable
- Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B NVFP4 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.5 397B public-lane score: 62.9 (#28/50)

| Benchmark | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B NVFP4 | Qwen3.5 397B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMMU-Pro | Coming soon | 79% | Coming soon |
| MathVision | Coming soon | 88.6% | Coming soon |
| CharXiv | Coming soon | 80.8% | Coming soon |
| VideoMMMU | Coming soon | 84.7% | Coming soon |
| ScreenSpot Pro | Coming soon | 65.6% | Coming soon |
| V* | Coming soon | 95.8% | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Not comparable
- Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B NVFP4 public-lane score: 20.7 (Estimated · #154/158)
- Qwen3.5 397B public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B NVFP4 | Qwen3.5 397B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA | 75.6% | 88.4% | Qwen3.5 397B |
| GPQA-D | 75.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HLE w/o tools | 10.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro | 81.6% | 87.8% | Qwen3.5 397B |
| SuperGPQA | Coming soon | 70.4% | 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: Not comparable
- Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B NVFP4 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.5 397B public-lane score: 69.7 (#5/12)

| Benchmark | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B NVFP4 | Qwen3.5 397B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMLU-ProX | Coming soon | 84.7% | Coming soon |
| NOVA-63 | Coming soon | 59.1% | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Directional only
- Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B NVFP4 public-lane score: 68.5 (#67/124)
- Qwen3.5 397B public-lane score: 0 (#124/124)

| Benchmark | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B NVFP4 | Qwen3.5 397B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFBench | 72.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| IFEval | Coming soon | 92.6% | Coming soon |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Not comparable
- Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B NVFP4 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.5 397B public-lane score: 73.5 (Unranked · 5 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B NVFP4 | 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

### Which is better overall, Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B NVFP4 or Qwen3.5 397B?

Qwen3.5 397B is ahead overall on BenchLM right now.

### Where is the biggest gap between Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B NVFP4 and Qwen3.5 397B?

The widest category gap is in instruction following, where the averages are 68.5 for Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B NVFP4 and 0 for Qwen3.5 397B.

### 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 Qwen3.5 397B cover on BenchLM?

Qwen3.5 397B currently has 38 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

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