# Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B NVFP4 vs Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B NVFP4 and Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/nemotron-3-5-lightning-30b-a3b-nvfp4-vs-qwen3-8-omni-flash
- Last updated: September 18, 2026

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

## Quick Verdict

Pick Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash 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

- Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash leads overall 63 to 20.46.
- The clearest category separation is in knowledge, where the averages are 30 for Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B NVFP4 and 54.9 for Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is SWE Multilingual in Coding, with scores of 36.5% and 80.5%.
- Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash is the cheaper option on output tokens, which matters if you expect large responses or heavy interactive use.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B NVFP4 | Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | NVIDIA | Alibaba |
| Type | Open Weight | Proprietary |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 1M | 1M |
| Overall Score | 20.46 | null |
| Benchmarks Covered | 13 | 19 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $0.00 / $0.00 | Pricing unavailable / Pricing unavailable |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Coming soon
- Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B NVFP4 public-lane score: 25.7 (Estimated · #150/154)
- Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B NVFP4 | Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 23.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| PinchBench | 83.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| BrowseComp | 36.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| τ³-bench results | 9.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| CoWorkBench | Coming soon | 75.3% | Coming soon |
| AndroidWorld | Coming soon | 87.1% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Coming soon
- Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B NVFP4 public-lane score: 30.1 (Estimated · #143/154)
- Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash public-lane score: 53.5 (Estimated · #45/154)

| Benchmark | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B NVFP4 | Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| SWE-bench Verified | 52.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE Multilingual | 36.5% | 80.5% | Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 23.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SciCode | 31.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Pro | Coming soon | 63.3% | Coming soon |
| NL2Repo | Coming soon | 48.9% | Coming soon |
| DeepSWE | Coming soon | 57.8% | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench v6 | Coming soon | 92.6% | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Coming soon
- Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B NVFP4 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash public-lane score: 85.1 (Unranked · 7 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B NVFP4 | Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Vision2Web | Coming soon | 62.9% | Coming soon |
| ERQA | Coming soon | 71.0% | Coming soon |
| LVBench | Coming soon | 76.9% | Coming soon |
| RealWorldQA | Coming soon | 87.7% | Coming soon |
| MathVision | Coming soon | 91.8% | Coming soon |
| MathVision w/ Python | Coming soon | 96.2% | Coming soon |
| CharXiv w/o tools | Coming soon | 83.5% | Coming soon |
| CharXiv | Coming soon | 91.4% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Coming soon
- Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B NVFP4 public-lane score: 54.8 (Unranked · 1 rankable row)
- Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash public-lane score: Coming soon

### Knowledge

- Winner: Coming soon
- Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B NVFP4 public-lane score: 30 (Estimated · #179/184)
- Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash public-lane score: 54.9 (Estimated · #54/184)

| Benchmark | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B NVFP4 | Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA | 75.6% | 91% | Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash |
| GPQA-D | 75.6% | 91.0% | Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash |
| HLE w/o tools | 10.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro | 81.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HLE | Coming soon | 36.5% | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash
- Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B NVFP4 public-lane score: 68.5 (#67/124)
- Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash public-lane score: 87.7 (#29/124)

| Benchmark | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B NVFP4 | Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFBench | 72.9% | 81.5% | Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash |

## FAQ

### Which is better overall, Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B NVFP4 or Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash?

Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash is ahead overall on BenchLM right now.

### Where is the biggest gap between Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B NVFP4 and Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash?

The widest category gap is in knowledge, where the averages are 30 for Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B NVFP4 and 54.9 for Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash.

### 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 Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash cover on BenchLM?

Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash currently has 19 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

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