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NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B NVFP4 vs Qwen3 235B-A22B

SpecNVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B NVFP4Qwen3 235B-A22B
Respan Index16.0 (#142)16.2 (#141)
Blended price per 1M$0.078-
Context window1M262K
Input / output per 1M$0.05 / $0.16-
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Released2026-08-112025-04-29

Respan Index by category

Each category is scored 0 to 100, and how far ahead the winner is. Leads under a point are close to even.

CategoryNVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B NVFP4Qwen3 235B-A22B
Coding1.7 NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B NVFP44.4 Qwen3 235B-A22B
Agents14.0 NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B NVFP411.9* Qwen3 235B-A22B
Reasoning20.1 NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B NVFP419.3 Qwen3 235B-A22B
Knowledge & language12.3 NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B NVFP410.6* Qwen3 235B-A22B
Human preference38.8 NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B NVFP441.6 Qwen3 235B-A22B

* Estimated: no published scores in that category. How the Respan Index works

Benchmarks both report

They split the 2 benchmarks both report evenly. Higher is better. Each score links to where it was published.

BenchmarkNVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B NVFP4Qwen3 235B-A22B
LMArena Elo13531375
GPQA Diamond75.6%70.7%

FAQ

Is NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B NVFP4 better than Qwen3 235B-A22B?

Qwen3 235B-A22B scores 16.2 on the Respan Index (#141), ahead of NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B NVFP4 at 16.0 (#142). They split the 2 benchmarks both report evenly.

Which has the larger context window?

NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B NVFP4 accepts 1M tokens and Qwen3 235B-A22B 262K tokens.

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