# Nemotron Ultra 253B vs QwQ-32B

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Nemotron Ultra 253B and QwQ-32B across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/nemotron-ultra-253b-vs-qwq-32b
- Last updated: October 14, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 4
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5.8

## Quick Verdict

Pick Nemotron Ultra 253B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. QwQ-32B only makes more sense when its price, context window, or workload-specific category wins matter more than the overall score.

## Summary

- Nemotron Ultra 253B leads overall 63 to 62.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is GPQA in Knowledge, with scores of 76.0% and 65.6%.
- QwQ-32B also has the larger context window at 131K.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Nemotron Ultra 253B | QwQ-32B |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | NVIDIA | Alibaba |
| Type | Open Weight | Open Weight |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 32K | 131K |
| Overall Score | null | null |
| Benchmarks Covered | 5 | 11 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $0.00 / $0.00 | N/A |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Not comparable
- Nemotron Ultra 253B public-lane score: Coming soon
- QwQ-32B public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Nemotron Ultra 253B | QwQ-32B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| BFCL v3 | Coming soon | 66.4% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Not comparable
- Nemotron Ultra 253B public-lane score: Coming soon
- QwQ-32B public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Nemotron Ultra 253B | QwQ-32B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| LiveCodeBench | 66.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench v5 | Coming soon | 62.7% | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Not comparable
- Nemotron Ultra 253B public-lane score: Coming soon
- QwQ-32B public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Nemotron Ultra 253B | QwQ-32B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA | 76.0% | 65.6% | Nemotron Ultra 253B |
| MMLU-Redux | Coming soon | 90% | Coming soon |
| C-Eval | Coming soon | 88.4% | Coming soon |
| MMMLU | Coming soon | 80.9% | Coming soon |

### Multilingual

- Winner: Not comparable
- Nemotron Ultra 253B public-lane score: Coming soon
- QwQ-32B public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Nemotron Ultra 253B | QwQ-32B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| INCLUDE | Coming soon | 69.7% | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Not comparable
- Nemotron Ultra 253B public-lane score: 0 (#127/128)
- QwQ-32B public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Nemotron Ultra 253B | QwQ-32B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFEval | 89.5% | 83.9% | Nemotron Ultra 253B |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Not comparable
- Nemotron Ultra 253B public-lane score: Coming soon
- QwQ-32B public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Nemotron Ultra 253B | QwQ-32B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| AIME 2025 | 72.5% | 69.5% | Nemotron Ultra 253B |
| MATH-500 | 97% | 98% | QwQ-32B |
| AIME 2024 | Coming soon | 79.5% | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Which is better overall, Nemotron Ultra 253B or QwQ-32B?

Nemotron Ultra 253B is ahead overall on BenchLM right now.

### How many benchmarks does Nemotron Ultra 253B cover on BenchLM?

Nemotron Ultra 253B currently has 5 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

### How many benchmarks does QwQ-32B cover on BenchLM?

QwQ-32B currently has 11 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

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- [Nemotron Ultra 253B profile](/models/nemotron-ultra-253b)
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