Nemotron 3.5 Lightning vs Nemotron 3 Super
Wins 1 of 3 areas
Agents
Wins 2 of 3 areas
Coding · Reasoning
Nemotron 3 Super is the stronger all-rounder.Nemotron 3.5 Lightning is better at agents.
Scores updated · 12 tests both models report · How we compare
Where each one wins
Tests won in each of the three areas where both have results. Each piece is one test, so a longer bar means more evidence; grey means the two scored within a point of each other.
Agents and reasoning rest on a single test each.
What it costs
Prices per million tokens, roughly 750,000 words. The bars show the cost of a million tokens read plus a million written.
The biggest differences
The tests each model wins by the widest margin, up to three each. Scores are out of 100.
Where Nemotron 3 Super pulls ahead
- Command-line tasks in a real terminalTerminal-Bench 2.1+15.3points ahead
- Fixes real GitHub issues in Python projectsSWE-bench Verified+11.5points ahead
- Fixes real GitHub issues in many programming languagesSWE-bench Multilingual+10.5points ahead
Where Nemotron 3.5 Lightning pulls ahead
- Finds hard-to-locate facts by browsing the webBrowseComp+14.2points ahead
Every test, side by side
All 12 tests both models report. The winning score is in its model's colour; marks a score checked independently.
CodingNemotron 3 Super
- Terminal-Bench 2.1Nemotron 3 Super by 15.324.339.6+15.3
- SWE-bench VerifiedNemotron 3 Super by 11.551.663.1+11.5
- SWE-bench MultilingualNemotron 3 Super by 10.539.349.8+10.5
- SciCodeNemotron 3 Super by 332.135.1+3
Other results6 tests, not counted
Tests outside the eight areas. They are not counted above: several are summary scores built from other tests, or the same test under another name.
- AA IntelligenceNemotron 3 Super by 13.112.926+13.1
- GDPval-AA v2Nemotron 3.5 Lightning by 86 rating points832746+86 rating
- HLE (text-only, no tools)Nemotron 3 Super by 8.611.720.3+8.6
- PinchBenchNemotron 3.5 Lightning by 585.480.4+5
- τ³-Bench BankingNemotron 3 Super by 3.19.312.4+3.1
- MMLU-ProNemotron 3 Super by 281.983.9+2
Questions people ask
Which is better, Nemotron 3.5 Lightning or Nemotron 3 Super?
Nemotron 3 Super wins two of the three areas where both have results: coding and reasoning. Nemotron 3.5 Lightning wins agents.
Which is better for coding?
Nemotron 3 Super. It wins 4 of the 4 coding tests both models report; Nemotron 3.5 Lightning wins none.
How do you compare the two?
We use the 12 benchmark tests both models have published scores on. The verdict counts the 6 tests in the eight capability areas, and a gap under one point (ten on rating-style scales) counts as a tie. The other 6 are listed but not counted, because several are summary scores or repeat a test. Each score is the one shown on the model's own page.