Model comparison
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning vs Qwen2.5-Coder-32B
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.0 to 33.4 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 12 shared benchmarks.
NVIDIA
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- They share 12 benchmarks with published results for both. Nemotron 3.5 Lightning scores higher in 8 categories and Qwen2.5-Coder-32B in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in coding, where Nemotron 3.5 Lightning leads 40.4 to 22.6.
- Nemotron 3.5 Lightning is cheaper at $0.05 / $0.20 per million input/output tokens, against $0.66 / $1 for Qwen2.5-Coder-32B.
- Nemotron 3.5 Lightning accepts more context: 262K tokens versus 33K.
Side by side
| Nemotron 3.5 Lightning | Qwen2.5-Coder-32B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | NVIDIA | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 40.0 | 33.4 |
| Released | 2026-08-11 | 2024-09-18 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | 262K | 33K |
| Max output | 262K | 29K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.05 | $0.66 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.20 | $1 |
| Results tracked | 18 | 31 |
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Category by category
Coding Nemotron 3.5 Lightning leads
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: 40.4 (#141), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 22.6 (#333)
| Benchmark | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning | Qwen2.5-Coder-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1375 | 1276 |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | — | 9% |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 16.4% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 49% |
| LiveBench Coding | — | 56.9% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 58% |
| HumanEval+ | — | 87.2% |
| MBPP+ | — | 77% |
Reasoning Nemotron 3.5 Lightning leads
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: 26.8 (#127), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 21.2 (#225)
| Benchmark | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning | Qwen2.5-Coder-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1337 | 1251 |
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 42.1% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 49.9% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 119.49 |
| HellaSwag | — | 83% |
| LiveBench | — | 46.2% |
| WinoGrande | — | 80.8% |
Math Nemotron 3.5 Lightning leads
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: 37.5 (#155), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 33.3 (#204)
| Benchmark | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning | Qwen2.5-Coder-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1359 | 1251 |
| LiveBench Math | — | 46.6% |
| GSM8K | — | 93% |
Knowledge Nemotron 3.5 Lightning leads
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: 37.5 (#154), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 33.4 (#203)
| Benchmark | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning | Qwen2.5-Coder-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1356 | 1221 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 70.5% |
| MMLU | — | 79.1% |
Multilingual Nemotron 3.5 Lightning leads
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: 44.0 (#180), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 37.8 (#235)
| Benchmark | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning | Qwen2.5-Coder-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1295 | 1205 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1359 | 1222 |
| LMArena Russian | 1253 | 1228 |
| LMArena French | 1366 | — |
| LMArena German | 1282 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1206 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1238 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1345 | — |
Instruction Following Nemotron 3.5 Lightning leads
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: 69.6 (#170), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 61.4 (#245)
| Benchmark | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning | Qwen2.5-Coder-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1318 | 1223 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 58.7% |
Long Context Nemotron 3.5 Lightning leads
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: 39.9 (#165), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 38.0 (#208)
| Benchmark | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning | Qwen2.5-Coder-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1314 | 1251 |
Writing & Preference Nemotron 3.5 Lightning leads
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: 48.5 (#201), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 41.6 (#240)
| Benchmark | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning | Qwen2.5-Coder-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1327 | 1230 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1254 | 1174 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1328 | 1222 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1280 | — |
| LiveBench Language | — | 23.3% |
Frequently asked questions
Is Nemotron 3.5 Lightning better than Qwen2.5-Coder-32B?
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.0 to 33.4 on the Noometry Index.
Which is cheaper, Nemotron 3.5 Lightning or Qwen2.5-Coder-32B?
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning is cheaper. It lists at $0.05 per million input tokens and $0.20 per million output tokens; Qwen2.5-Coder-32B lists at $0.66 and $1.
Is Nemotron 3.5 Lightning or Qwen2.5-Coder-32B better for coding?
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning scores higher on coding benchmarks: 40.4 versus 22.6 in the Noometry coding category.
Which has the bigger context window?
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning does, with 262K tokens against 33K.
How many benchmarks do Nemotron 3.5 Lightning and Qwen2.5-Coder-32B share?
12 benchmarks have published results for both models. Nemotron 3.5 Lightning has 18 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5-Coder-32B has 31.