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Nemotron 3.5 Lightning vs Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

NVIDIA · released

Wins 1 of 6 areas

Agents

NVIDIA · released

Wins 3 of 6 areas

Coding · Reasoning · Long documents

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B wins more areas, narrowly.Nemotron 3.5 Lightning is cheaper and better at agents.

Scores updated · 33 tests both models report · How we compare

Where each one wins

Tests won in each of the six 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.

Long documents and following instructions 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.

Nemotron 3.5 Lightning$0.06 to read · $0.20 to write$0.26Price from Artificial Analysis
Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B$0.30 to read · $0.90 to write$1.20Price from Artificial Analysis

Nemotron 3.5 Lightning costs 78% less for the same work.

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 120B A12B pulls ahead

  • Command-line tasks in a real terminalTerminal-Bench 2.1+14.3points aheadNemotron 3 Super 120B A12B38.6Nemotron 3.5 Lightning24.3
  • Very hard expert questions across many subjectsHumanity's Last Exam+10.2points aheadNemotron 3 Super 120B A12B20.8Nemotron 3.5 Lightning10.6
  • Answers hard knowledge questions correctlyAA-Omniscience · Accuracy+9.9points aheadNemotron 3 Super 120B A12B24.3Nemotron 3.5 Lightning14.4

Where Nemotron 3.5 Lightning pulls ahead

  • Avoids making up answers it doesn't knowAA-Omniscience · Non-hallucination+49.4points aheadNemotron 3.5 Lightning62.4Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B13
  • Finds hard-to-locate facts by browsing the webBrowseComp+5.7points aheadNemotron 3.5 Lightning37Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B31.3

Every test, side by side

All 33 tests both models report. The winning score is in its model's colour; marks a score checked independently.

CodingNemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

Full coding ranking

AgentsNemotron 3.5 Lightning

Full agents ranking

ReasoningNemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

Full reasoning ranking

FactsEven

Full facts ranking

Long documentsNemotron 3 Super 120B A12B
  • AA-LCRNemotron 3 Super 120B A12B by 5.460.365.7+5.4

Full long documents ranking

Following instructionsEven

Full following instructions ranking

Other results18 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.

Questions people ask

Which is better, Nemotron 3.5 Lightning or Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B?

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B wins three of the six areas where both have results: coding, reasoning and long documents. Nemotron 3.5 Lightning wins agents, and costs 78% less. They are level on facts and following instructions.

Which is better for coding?

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B. It wins 4 of the 4 coding tests both models report; Nemotron 3.5 Lightning wins none.

Which is cheaper?

Nemotron 3.5 Lightning costs $0.06 per million input tokens and $0.20 per million output tokens; Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B costs $0.30 and $0.90. That makes Nemotron 3.5 Lightning about 78% cheaper for the same work.

How do you compare the two?

We use the 33 benchmark tests both models have published scores on. The verdict counts the 15 tests in the eight capability areas, and a gap under one point (ten on rating-style scales) counts as a tie. The other 18 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.