# Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B NVFP4 vs Qwen3.7 Plus

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B NVFP4 and Qwen3.7 Plus across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/nemotron-3-5-lightning-30b-a3b-nvfp4-vs-qwen3-7-plus
- Last updated: September 21, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 9
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5

## Quick Verdict

Pick Qwen3.7 Plus 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

- Qwen3.7 Plus leads overall 61.72 to 20.96.
- The clearest category separation is in knowledge, where the averages are 30.4 for Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B NVFP4 and 56.4 for Qwen3.7 Plus.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is Terminal-Bench 2.0 in Agentic, with scores of 23.5% and 70.3%.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B NVFP4 | Qwen3.7 Plus |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | NVIDIA | Alibaba |
| Type | Open Weight | Proprietary |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 1M | 1M |
| Overall Score | 20.96 | 61.72 |
| Benchmarks Covered | 13 | 52 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $0.00 / $0.00 | N/A |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Coming soon
- Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B NVFP4 public-lane score: 26.1 (Estimated · #150/154)
- Qwen3.7 Plus public-lane score: 37.6 (Supported · #128/154)

| Benchmark | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B NVFP4 | Qwen3.7 Plus | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 23.5% | 70.3% | Qwen3.7 Plus |
| PinchBench | 83.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| BrowseComp | 36.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| τ³-bench results | 9.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| QwenClawBench | Coming soon | 61.8% | Coming soon |
| Claw-Eval | Coming soon | 62.7% | Coming soon |
| BFCL v4 | Coming soon | 72.9% | Coming soon |
| MCP Atlas | Coming soon | 73.2% | Coming soon |
| VITA-Bench | Coming soon | 45.6% | Coming soon |
| DeepPlanning | Coming soon | 62.3% | Coming soon |
| OSWorld-Verified | Coming soon | 73.3% | Coming soon |
| AndroidWorld | Coming soon | 81.0% | Coming soon |
| OSWorld 2.0 | Coming soon | 2.8% | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals) | Coming soon | 52.8% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Coming soon
- Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B NVFP4 public-lane score: 30.5 (Estimated · #144/156)
- Qwen3.7 Plus public-lane score: 53.2 (Estimated · #46/156)

| Benchmark | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B NVFP4 | Qwen3.7 Plus | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| SWE-bench Verified | 52.8% | 77.7% | Qwen3.7 Plus |
| SWE Multilingual | 36.5% | 75.8% | Qwen3.7 Plus |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 23.5% | 70.3% | Qwen3.7 Plus |
| SciCode | 31.4% | 51.3% | Qwen3.7 Plus |
| SWE-bench Pro | Coming soon | 57.6% | Coming soon |
| NL2Repo | Coming soon | 41.1% | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench | Coming soon | 89.6% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Coming soon
- Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B NVFP4 public-lane score: 54.8 (Unranked · 1 rankable row)
- Qwen3.7 Plus public-lane score: 74 (Unranked · 3 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B NVFP4 | Qwen3.7 Plus | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| CritPt | Coming soon | 9.1% | Coming soon |
| MRCRv2 | Coming soon | 91.7% | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Coming soon
- Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B NVFP4 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.7 Plus public-lane score: 72.4 (#18/49)

| Benchmark | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B NVFP4 | Qwen3.7 Plus | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMMU-Pro | Coming soon | 79% | Coming soon |
| MathVision | Coming soon | 90.3% | Coming soon |
| CharXiv | Coming soon | 85.9% | Coming soon |
| ERQA | Coming soon | 69.8% | Coming soon |
| MedXpertQA (MM) | Coming soon | 71.0% | Coming soon |
| ScreenSpot Pro | Coming soon | 79.0% | Coming soon |
| SimpleVQA | Coming soon | 81.7% | Coming soon |
| MMSearch-Plus | Coming soon | 41.4% | Coming soon |
| RealWorldQA | Coming soon | 86.9% | Coming soon |
| OmniDocBench 1.5 | Coming soon | 91.4% | Coming soon |
| OCRBench V2 | Coming soon | 70.7% | Coming soon |
| ODINW13 | Coming soon | 51.1% | Coming soon |
| Video-MME (with subtitle) | Coming soon | 88.0% | Coming soon |
| VideoMMMU | Coming soon | 85.4% | Coming soon |
| MLVU (M-Avg) | Coming soon | 87.4% | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Coming soon
- Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B NVFP4 public-lane score: 30.4 (Estimated · #181/186)
- Qwen3.7 Plus public-lane score: 56.4 (Estimated · #47/186)

| Benchmark | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B NVFP4 | Qwen3.7 Plus | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA | 75.6% | 90.3% | Qwen3.7 Plus |
| GPQA-D | 75.6% | 90.3% | Qwen3.7 Plus |
| HLE w/o tools | 10.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro | 81.6% | 88.5% | Qwen3.7 Plus |
| HLE | Coming soon | 34.7% | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Redux | Coming soon | 94.5% | Coming soon |
| SuperGPQA | Coming soon | 71.4% | Coming soon |
| MMMLU | Coming soon | 89.0% | Coming soon |

### Multilingual

- Winner: Coming soon
- Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B NVFP4 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.7 Plus public-lane score: 78.9 (#3/12)

| Benchmark | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B NVFP4 | Qwen3.7 Plus | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMLU-ProX | Coming soon | 85.4% | Coming soon |
| NOVA-63 | Coming soon | 58.8% | Coming soon |
| INCLUDE | Coming soon | 83.0% | Coming soon |
| MAXIFE | Coming soon | 88.8% | Coming soon |
| PolyMath | Coming soon | 84.0% | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Qwen3.7 Plus
- Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B NVFP4 public-lane score: 68.5 (#67/124)
- Qwen3.7 Plus public-lane score: 89.2 (#18/124)

| Benchmark | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B NVFP4 | Qwen3.7 Plus | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFBench | 72.9% | 79.1% | Qwen3.7 Plus |
| IFEval | Coming soon | 94.6% | Coming soon |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Coming soon
- Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B NVFP4 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.7 Plus public-lane score: 78.2 (Unranked · 3 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B NVFP4 | Qwen3.7 Plus | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| HMMT Feb 2026 | Coming soon | 92.9% | Coming soon |
| IMOAnswerBench | Coming soon | 86.0% | Coming soon |
| Apex | Coming soon | 22.7% | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Which is better overall, Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B NVFP4 or Qwen3.7 Plus?

Qwen3.7 Plus is ahead overall on BenchLM right now.

### Where is the biggest gap between Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B NVFP4 and Qwen3.7 Plus?

The widest category gap is in knowledge, where the averages are 30.4 for Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B NVFP4 and 56.4 for Qwen3.7 Plus.

### 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 Qwen3.7 Plus cover on BenchLM?

Qwen3.7 Plus currently has 52 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

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