NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B vs Qwen3.5 35B A3B
Wins 0 of 6 areas
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Wins 4 of 6 areas
Coding · Reasoning · Long documents · Following instructions
Qwen3.5 35B A3B is the stronger all-rounder.NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B is cheaper.
Scores updated · 38 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.
- CodingWriting and fixing software05Qwen3.5 35B A3B5 of 5 tests
- ReasoningHard problems that need careful thinking02Qwen3.5 35B A3B2 of 3 tests · 1 tie
- Following instructionsDoing exactly what it is asked02Qwen3.5 35B A3B2 of 2 tests
- Long documentsFinding answers in very long texts01Qwen3.5 35B A3B1 of 1 test
- AgentsCarrying out multi-step tasks on its own11Even1 each
- FactsGetting facts right instead of making them up11Even1 each · 1 tie
Long documents 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.
NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B costs 89% 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 Qwen3.5 35B A3B pulls ahead
- Command-line tasks in a real terminalTerminal-Bench 2.1+34.1points ahead
- Reasons across sets of long documentsAA-LCR+34points ahead
- Fixes real GitHub issues in Python projectsSWE-bench Verified+30.4points ahead
Where NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B pulls ahead
- Avoids making up answers it doesn't knowAA-Omniscience · Non-hallucination+2.1points ahead
- Customer-service tasks in a simulated bankτ-Bench V3 · Banking+1.1points ahead
Every test, side by side
All 38 tests both models report. The winning score is in its model's colour; marks a score checked independently.
CodingQwen3.5 35B A3B
- Terminal-Bench 2.1Qwen3.5 35B A3B by 34.16.740.8+34.1
- SWE-bench VerifiedQwen3.5 35B A3B by 30.438.869.2+30.4
- Terminal-Bench HardQwen3.5 35B A3B by 12.913.626.5+12.9
- SciCodeQwen3.5 35B A3B by 7.130.637.7+7.1
- LiveCodeBench v6Qwen3.5 35B A3B by 6.368.374.6+6.3
AgentsEven
- GDPValQwen3.5 35B A3B by 5.605.6+5.6
- τ-Bench V3 · BankingNVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B by 1.164.9+1.1
ReasoningQwen3.5 35B A3B
- Humanity's Last ExamQwen3.5 35B A3B by 9.611.421+9.6
- GPQA DiamondQwen3.5 35B A3B by 8.875.784.5+8.8
- CritPttie0.90.9tie
FactsEven
- AA-Omniscience · AccuracyQwen3.5 35B A3B by 2.817.320.1+2.8
- AA-Omniscience · Non-hallucinationNVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B by 2.116.714.6+2.1
- Vectara HHEM hallucination ratelower is bettertie9.610.5tie
Following instructionsQwen3.5 35B A3B
- Multi-ChallengeQwen3.5 35B A3B by 21.538.560+21.5
- IFBenchQwen3.5 35B A3B by 1.471.172.5+1.4
Other results22 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.
- τ²-Bench Telecom (AA run)Qwen3.5 35B A3B by 48.340.989.2+48.3
- Minerva MathNVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B by 22.982.659.7+22.9
- Artificial Analysis Coding IndexQwen3.5 35B A3B by 22.614.437+22.6
- MMLU-ProXQwen3.5 35B A3B by 21.559.581+21.5
- RULER 256KQwen3.5 35B A3B by 10.771.782.4+10.7
- AA IntelligenceQwen3.5 35B A3B by 10.48.919.3+10.4
- HumanEvalNVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B by 8.57566.5+8.5
- MMLU-ProQwen3.5 35B A3B by 778.385.3+7
- Global-MMLU-Lite (5-shot) AverageQwen3.5 35B A3B by 6.374.680.9+6.3
- RULER 1MQwen3.5 35B A3B by 5.251.256.4+5.2
- AA-OmniscienceQwen3.5 35B A3B by 3.5-51.6-48.1+3.5
- ARC-ChallengeQwen3.5 35B A3B by 3.49295.4+3.4
- MBPPNVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B by 373.870.8+3
- MMLUQwen3.5 35B A3B by 2.678.581.1+2.6
- OpenBookQANVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B by 2.646.844.2+2.6
- PIQA (acc-norm)NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B by 1.884.382.5+1.8
- vectara_avg_summary_lengthtie104.294.9tie
- vectara_factual_consistencytie90.489.5tie
- PIQA (Acc.)tie82.682.3tie
- vectara_answer_ratetie99.699.8tie
- HellaSwagtie85.585.6tie
- WinoGrandetie79.279.2tie
Questions people ask
Which is better, NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B or Qwen3.5 35B A3B?
Qwen3.5 35B A3B wins four of the six areas where both have results: coding, reasoning, long documents and following instructions. NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B wins none, but costs 89% less. They are level on agents and facts.
Which is better for coding?
Qwen3.5 35B A3B. It wins 5 of the 5 coding tests both models report; NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B wins none.
Which is cheaper?
NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B costs $0.05 per million input tokens and $0.20 per million output tokens; Qwen3.5 35B A3B costs $0.25 and $2.00. That makes NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B about 89% cheaper for the same work.
How do you compare the two?
We use the 38 benchmark tests both models have published scores on. The verdict counts the 16 tests in the eight capability areas, and a gap under one point (ten on rating-style scales) counts as a tie. The other 22 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.