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Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B A55B Base vs Qwen3.5 35B A3B

NVIDIA · released

Wins 0 of 1 area

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Alibaba · released

Wins 1 of 1 area

Reasoning

Qwen3.5 35B A3B is the stronger all-rounder.

Scores updated · 11 tests both models report · How we compare

Where each one wins

Tests won in each of the one area 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.

Reasoning rests on a single test.

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 Ultra 550B A55B BaseNo current price is tracked.
Qwen3.5 35B A3B$0.25 to read · $2.00 to write$2.25Price from Alibaba's own price page

The biggest differences

The tests each model wins by the widest margin, up to three each. Scores are out of 100.

Where Qwen3.5 35B A3B pulls ahead

  • Graduate-level biology, physics and chemistry questionsGPQA Diamond+34.5points aheadQwen3.5 35B A3B84.5Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B A55B Base50

Where Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B A55B Base pulls ahead

No clear win on a test scored out of 100.

Every test, side by side

All 11 tests both models report. The winning score is in its model's colour; marks a score checked independently.

ReasoningQwen3.5 35B A3B

Full reasoning ranking

Other results10 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.

  • GPQA (unspecified)Qwen3.5 35B A3B by 34.25084.2+34.2
  • RULER 1MNemotron 3 Ultra 550B A55B Base by 20.476.856.4+20.4
  • HumanEvalNemotron 3 Ultra 550B A55B Base by 17.383.866.5+17.3
  • MMLUNemotron 3 Ultra 550B A55B Base by 889.181.1+8
  • MMLU-ProQwen3.5 35B A3B by 6.279.185.3+6.2
  • HellaSwagNemotron 3 Ultra 550B A55B Base by 4.990.585.6+4.9
  • OpenBookQANemotron 3 Ultra 550B A55B Base by 4.448.644.2+4.4
  • RULER 256KNemotron 3 Ultra 550B A55B Base by 3.886.282.4+3.8
  • ARC-ChallengeNemotron 3 Ultra 550B A55B Base by 297.395.4+2
  • WinoGrandetie79.379.2tie

Questions people ask

Which is better, Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B A55B Base or Qwen3.5 35B A3B?

Qwen3.5 35B A3B wins the one area where both have results: reasoning. Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B A55B Base wins none.

How do you compare the two?

We use the 11 benchmark tests both models have published scores on. The verdict counts the 1 tests in the eight capability areas, and a gap under one point (ten on rating-style scales) counts as a tie. The other 10 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.