Noometry

Model comparison

Nemotron 3.5 Lightning vs Nemotron 3 Super

Nemotron 3.5 Lightning and Nemotron 3 Super score almost the same on the Noometry Index (40.0 vs 40.1), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified . 15 shared benchmarks.

Nemotron 3.5 Lightning NVIDIA

40.0

Rank #155 Confirmed

Nemotron 3 Super NVIDIA

40.1

Rank #153 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 15 benchmarks with published results for both. Nemotron 3.5 Lightning scores higher in 2 categories and Nemotron 3 Super in 6 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Nemotron 3.5 Lightning leads 26.8 to 18.7.
  • Nemotron 3.5 Lightning is cheaper at $0.05 / $0.20 per million input/output tokens, against $0.08 / $0.45 for Nemotron 3 Super.

Side by side

Nemotron 3.5 LightningNemotron 3 Super
ProviderNVIDIANVIDIA
Noometry Index40.040.1
Released2026-08-112026-03-11
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window262K262K
Max output262K131K
Input $ / M tokens$0.05$0.08
Output $ / M tokens$0.20$0.45
Results tracked1821

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Category by category

Coding Nemotron 3.5 Lightning leads

Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: 40.4 (#141), Nemotron 3 Super: 39.4 (#158)

BenchmarkNemotron 3.5 LightningNemotron 3 Super
LMArena Coding13751403
SciCode—36%
WeirdML—38%
ALE-Bench—213.9

Reasoning Nemotron 3.5 Lightning leads

Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: 26.8 (#127), Nemotron 3 Super: 18.7 (#276)

BenchmarkNemotron 3.5 LightningNemotron 3 Super
LMArena Hard Prompts13371386
NYT Connections (extended)—15.4%
CritPt—3.1%

Math Nemotron 3 Super leads

Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: 37.5 (#155), Nemotron 3 Super: 39.6 (#101)

BenchmarkNemotron 3.5 LightningNemotron 3 Super
LMArena Math13591380
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions—60.4%

Knowledge Nemotron 3 Super leads

Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: 37.5 (#154), Nemotron 3 Super: 38.9 (#139)

BenchmarkNemotron 3.5 LightningNemotron 3 Super
LMArena Expert13561398

Multilingual Nemotron 3 Super leads

Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: 44.0 (#180), Nemotron 3 Super: 48.4 (#144)

BenchmarkNemotron 3.5 LightningNemotron 3 Super
LMArena Non-English12951355
LMArena Chinese13591432
LMArena French13661405
LMArena German12821341
LMArena Russian12531336
LMArena Spanish13451417
LMArena Japanese1206—
LMArena Korean1238—

Instruction Following Nemotron 3 Super leads

Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: 69.6 (#170), Nemotron 3 Super: 71.2 (#154)

BenchmarkNemotron 3.5 LightningNemotron 3 Super
LMArena Instruction Following13181347

Long Context Nemotron 3 Super leads

Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: 39.9 (#165), Nemotron 3 Super: 41.5 (#139)

BenchmarkNemotron 3.5 LightningNemotron 3 Super
LMArena Longer Query13141362

Writing & Preference Nemotron 3 Super leads

Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: 48.5 (#201), Nemotron 3 Super: 55.9 (#140)

BenchmarkNemotron 3.5 LightningNemotron 3 Super
LMArena Text13271378
LMArena Creative Writing12541317
LMArena Multi-Turn13281369
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1280—

Frequently asked questions

Is Nemotron 3.5 Lightning better than Nemotron 3 Super?

Nemotron 3.5 Lightning and Nemotron 3 Super score almost the same on the Noometry Index (40.0 vs 40.1), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Which is cheaper, Nemotron 3.5 Lightning or Nemotron 3 Super?

Nemotron 3.5 Lightning is cheaper. It lists at $0.05 per million input tokens and $0.20 per million output tokens; Nemotron 3 Super lists at $0.08 and $0.45.

Is Nemotron 3.5 Lightning or Nemotron 3 Super better for coding?

Nemotron 3.5 Lightning scores higher on coding benchmarks: 40.4 versus 39.4 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Both accept 262K tokens.

How many benchmarks do Nemotron 3.5 Lightning and Nemotron 3 Super share?

15 benchmarks have published results for both models. Nemotron 3.5 Lightning has 18 scored results on Noometry and Nemotron 3 Super has 21.

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