# Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B NVFP4 vs Sakana Fugu

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

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

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 6
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5.7

## Quick Verdict

Pick Sakana Fugu 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

- Sakana Fugu leads overall 65 to 19.1.
- The clearest category separation is in reasoning, where the averages are 55.9 for Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B NVFP4 and 70.6 for Sakana Fugu.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is Terminal-Bench 2.1 in Agentic, with scores of 23.5% and 80.2%.
- Sakana Fugu 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 | Sakana Fugu |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | NVIDIA | Sakana AI |
| Type | Open Weight | Proprietary |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 1M | 1M |
| Overall Score | 19.1 | null |
| Benchmarks Covered | 13 | 11 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $0.00 / $0.00 | Pricing unavailable / Pricing unavailable |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

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

| Benchmark | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B NVFP4 | Sakana Fugu | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 23.5% | 80.2% | Sakana Fugu |
| PinchBench | 83.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| BrowseComp | 36.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| τ³-bench results | 9.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Coding

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

| Benchmark | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B NVFP4 | Sakana Fugu | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| SWE-bench Verified | 52.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE Multilingual | 36.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 23.5% | 80.2% | Sakana Fugu |
| SciCode | 31.4% | 60.1% | Sakana Fugu |
| SWE-bench Pro | Coming soon | 59% | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench v6 | Coming soon | 92.9% | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench Pro | Coming soon | 87.8% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Not comparable
- Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B NVFP4 public-lane score: 55.9 (Unranked · 1 rankable row)
- Sakana Fugu public-lane score: 70.6 (Unranked · 1 rankable row)

| Benchmark | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B NVFP4 | Sakana Fugu | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MRCRv2 | Coming soon | 86.6% | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Not comparable
- Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B NVFP4 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Sakana Fugu public-lane score: 68.6 (Unranked · 1 rankable row)

| Benchmark | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B NVFP4 | Sakana Fugu | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| CharXiv | Coming soon | 85.1% | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

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

| Benchmark | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B NVFP4 | Sakana Fugu | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA | 75.6% | 95.5% | Sakana Fugu |
| GPQA-D | 75.6% | 95.5% | Sakana Fugu |
| HLE w/o tools | 10.5% | 47.2% | Sakana Fugu |
| 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)
- Sakana Fugu public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B NVFP4 | Sakana Fugu | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFBench | 72.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Which is better overall, Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B NVFP4 or Sakana Fugu?

Sakana Fugu is ahead overall on BenchLM right now.

### Where is the biggest gap between Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B NVFP4 and Sakana Fugu?

The widest category gap is in reasoning, where the averages are 55.9 for Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B NVFP4 and 70.6 for Sakana Fugu.

### 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 Sakana Fugu cover on BenchLM?

Sakana Fugu currently has 11 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

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