# Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3B vs Qwen3.5 397B

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3B and Qwen3.5 397B across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/nemotron-3-nano-omni-30b-a3b-vs-qwen3-5-397b
- Last updated: September 10, 2026

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

## Quick Verdict

Pick Qwen3.5 397B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3B 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 54.7 to 40.6.
- The clearest category separation is in instruction following, where the averages are 75.9 for Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3B and 0 for Qwen3.5 397B.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is GPQA in Knowledge, with scores of 72.2% and 88.4%.
- Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3B is the cheaper option on output tokens, which matters if you expect large responses or heavy interactive use.
- Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3B also has the larger context window at 256K.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3B | Qwen3.5 397B |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | NVIDIA | Alibaba |
| Type | Open Weight | Open Weight |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Non-Reasoning |
| Context | 256K | 128K |
| Overall Score | 40.6 | 54.7 |
| Benchmarks Covered | 16 | 38 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $0.00 / $0.00 | $0.60 / $3.60 |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Coming soon
- Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3B public-lane score: 44.3 (Estimated · #90/152)
- Qwen3.5 397B public-lane score: 46.8 (Estimated · #71/152)

| Benchmark | Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3B | Qwen3.5 397B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| OSWorld | 47.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| τ²-bench results | 45.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | Coming soon | 52.5% | Coming soon |
| BrowseComp | Coming soon | 62% | Coming soon |
| Claw-Eval | Coming soon | 56.8% | Coming soon |
| QwenClawBench | Coming soon | 51.8% | Coming soon |
| τ³-bench results | Coming soon | 68.4% | 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: Coming soon
- Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3B public-lane score: 40.2 (Estimated · #116/151)
- Qwen3.5 397B public-lane score: 50.2 (Estimated · #59/151)

| Benchmark | Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3B | Qwen3.5 397B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| LiveCodeBench v5 | 63.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SciCode | 32% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Verified | Coming soon | 76.2% | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench v6 | Coming soon | 83.6% | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Pro | Coming soon | 50.9% | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Coming soon
- Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3B public-lane score: 39.3 (#42/48)
- Qwen3.5 397B public-lane score: 63 (#27/48)

| Benchmark | Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3B | Qwen3.5 397B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMMU | 70.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMLongBench-Doc | 57.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| CharXiv | 76.3% | 80.8% | Qwen3.5 397B |
| ScreenSpot Pro | 57.8% | 65.6% | Qwen3.5 397B |
| Video-MME (w/o subtitle) | 72.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| AI2D_TEST | 88.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| RefCOCO (avg) | 90.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMMU-Pro | Coming soon | 79% | Coming soon |
| MathVision | Coming soon | 88.6% | Coming soon |
| VideoMMMU | Coming soon | 84.7% | Coming soon |
| V* | Coming soon | 95.8% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Coming soon
- Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3B public-lane score: 48.3 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)
- Qwen3.5 397B public-lane score: 59.8 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3B | Qwen3.5 397B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| LongBench v2 | Coming soon | 63.2% | Coming soon |
| AI-Needle | Coming soon | 68.7% | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Coming soon
- Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3B public-lane score: 38.7 (Supported · #143/183)
- Qwen3.5 397B public-lane score: 50.2 (Estimated · #77/183)

| Benchmark | Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3B | Qwen3.5 397B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMLU-Pro | 77.3% | 87.8% | Qwen3.5 397B |
| GPQA | 72.2% | 88.4% | Qwen3.5 397B |
| GPQA-D | 72.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| 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 |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Coming soon
- Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3B public-lane score: 75.9 (#59/123)
- Qwen3.5 397B public-lane score: 0 (#123/123)

| Benchmark | Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3B | Qwen3.5 397B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFBench | 74.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| IFEval | Coming soon | 92.6% | Coming soon |

### Multilingual

- Winner: Coming soon
- Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3B public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.5 397B public-lane score: 69.7 (#5/12)

| Benchmark | Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3B | Qwen3.5 397B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMLU-ProX | Coming soon | 84.7% | Coming soon |
| NOVA-63 | Coming soon | 59.1% | Coming soon |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Coming soon
- Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3B public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.5 397B public-lane score: 74.2 (Unranked · 5 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3B | Qwen3.5 397B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| AIME 2025 | 82.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| 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 Nano Omni 30B A3B or Qwen3.5 397B?

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

### Where is the biggest gap between Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3B and Qwen3.5 397B?

The widest category gap is in instruction following, where the averages are 75.9 for Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3B and 0 for Qwen3.5 397B.

### How many benchmarks does Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3B cover on BenchLM?

Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3B currently has 16 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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