vs
3:0
overall capability wins (0 ties across 3 scored). Nemotron 3.5 Lightning leads overall.
- Reasoning1:0
- Specs2:0
Verdict
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning edges reasoning & knowledge; Nemotron 3.5 Lightning offers ~2.0x larger context (262K vs 128K).
- Nemotron 3.5 Lightning edges reasoning & knowledge
- Nemotron 3.5 Lightning offers ~2.0x larger context (262K vs 128K)
Cost for 1M in + 250K out
Illustrative chat workload at primary-provider list prices.
- Nemotron 3.5 Lightning
- -
- Nemotron Nano 9B v2
- $0.11
Price per 1M tokens
Full comparison
Organization
NVIDIA
NVIDIA
Family
Nemotron
Nemotron
License
OpenMDW-1.1
NVIDIA Open Model
Open weights
Yes
Yes
Release
Aug 11, 2026
Aug 18, 2025
Knowledge cutoff
-
-
API / provider
No primary API price listed
NVIDIA NIM
Modalities
text → text
text → text
Specs
Context window
262K
128K
Max output
-
8K
Parameters
30B (3B act.)
9B
Pricing
Input $/1M
—
$0.06
Output $/1M
—
$0.20
Blended $/1M (3∶1)
-
$0.10
Speed
tok/s
-
140
TTFT (s)
-
0.2
Reasoning
MMLU-Pro
—
—
GPQA Diamond
74.3
—
Humanity's Last Exam
10.6
6.5
AIME 2025
—
72.1
MATH-500
—
97.8
Humanity's Last Exam (with tools)
—
—
AA-Omniscience Accuracy
14.4
—
AA-LCR v1.1
60.3
—
CritPt
—
—
MMMU-Pro
—
—
IFBench
—
—
Chartography
—
—
Chartography (With Tools)
—
—
Coding
SWE-bench Verified
—
—
SWE-bench Pro
—
—
SWE-bench Multilingual
—
—
LiveCodeBench
—
71.1
Terminal-Bench 2.1
24.3
—
Aider Polyglot
—
—
Terminal-Bench 3
—
—
BigCodeBench
—
—
SciCode
32.1
—
CursorBench
—
—
SWE-Rebench
—
—
NL2Repo-Bench
—
—
DeepSWE
—
—
WebDev Arena
—
—
Terminal-Bench 4.0
—
—
CursorBench 4.0
—
—
FrontierCode v1.1 (Main)
—
—
Arena
LMArena Elo
—
—
| Metric | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning | Nemotron Nano 9B v2 | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|
| Identity | |||
| Organization | NVIDIA | NVIDIA | — |
| Family | Nemotron | Nemotron | — |
| License | OpenMDW-1.1 | NVIDIA Open Model | — |
| Open weights | Yes | Yes | — |
| Release | Aug 11, 2026 | Aug 18, 2025 | — |
| Knowledge cutoff | - | - | — |
| API / provider | No primary API price listed | NVIDIA NIM | — |
| Modalities | text → text | text → text | — |
| Specs | |||
| Context window | 262K | 128K | A +134K |
| Max output | - | 8K | — |
| Parameters | 30B (3B act.) | 9B | A +21 |
| Pricing | |||
| Input $/1M | — | $0.06 | — |
| Output $/1M | — | $0.20 | — |
| Blended $/1M (3∶1) | - | $0.10 | — |
| Speed | |||
| tok/s | - | 140 | — |
| TTFT (s) | - | 0.2 | — |
| Reasoning | |||
| MMLU-Pro | — | — | — |
| GPQA Diamond | 74.3 | — | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 10.6 | 6.5 | A +4.1 pts |
| AIME 2025 | — | 72.1 | — |
| MATH-500 | — | 97.8 | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam (with tools) | — | — | — |
| AA-Omniscience Accuracy | 14.4 | — | — |
| AA-LCR v1.1 | 60.3 | — | — |
| CritPt | — | — | — |
| MMMU-Pro | — | — | — |
| IFBench | — | — | — |
| Chartography | — | — | — |
| Chartography (With Tools) | — | — | — |
| Coding | |||
| SWE-bench Verified | — | — | — |
| SWE-bench Pro | — | — | — |
| SWE-bench Multilingual | — | — | — |
| LiveCodeBench | — | 71.1 | — |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 24.3 | — | — |
| Aider Polyglot | — | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 3 | — | — | — |
| BigCodeBench | — | — | — |
| SciCode | 32.1 | — | — |
| CursorBench | — | — | — |
| SWE-Rebench | — | — | — |
| NL2Repo-Bench | — | — | — |
| DeepSWE | — | — | — |
| WebDev Arena | — | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 4.0 | — | — | — |
| CursorBench 4.0 | — | — | — |
| FrontierCode v1.1 (Main) | — | — | — |
| Arena | |||
| LMArena Elo | — | — | — |
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning
- Context
- 262K
- Parameters
- 30B (3B act.)
- Price
- —
- Speed
- —
- Modalities
- text → text
- License
- OpenMDW-1.1
NVIDIA's low-latency Nemotron variant (30B total / 3B active MoE, hybrid Mamba-2 + attention) built for high-volume specialized task execution inside long-running agents rather than deep reasoning; open weights under OpenMDW-1.1.
Nemotron Nano 9B v2
- Context
- 128K / 8K out
- Parameters
- 9B
- Price
- $0.06 / $0.20
- Speed
- 140 tok/s · 0.2s TTFT
- Modalities
- text → text
- License
- NVIDIA Open Model
NVIDIA's compact Nemotron Nano — surprisingly strong coding for a sub-10B open model.
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