Model comparison
Claude 3.7 Sonnet vs Nemotron 3.5 Lightning
Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Nemotron 3.5 Lightning score almost the same on the Noometry Index (39.5 vs 40.0), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 18 shared benchmarks.
NVIDIASummary
- They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3.7 Sonnet scores higher in 6 categories and Nemotron 3.5 Lightning in 2 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in long context, where Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads 50.3 to 39.9.
- Nemotron 3.5 Lightning has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Claude 3.7 Sonnet | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | NVIDIA |
| Noometry Index | 39.5 | 40.0 |
| Released | 2025-02-24 | 2026-08-11 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | 262K |
| Max output | — | 262K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.05 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $0.20 |
| Results tracked | 58 | 18 |
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Category by category
Coding Too close to call
Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 40.6 (#136), Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: 40.4 (#141)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.7 Sonnet | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1361 | 1375 |
| SWE-bench Verified | 61% | — |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | 52.8% | — |
| Aider Polyglot | 64.9% | — |
| GSO | 3.8% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | 74.5% | — |
| CadEval | 54% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 34.1 (#50), Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3.7 Sonnet | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| TheAgentCompany | 30.9% | — |
| Cybench | 20% | — |
| DeepResearch Bench | 43.6% | — |
| OSWorld | 35.8% | — |
| METR Time Horizons | 60% | — |
Reasoning Nemotron 3.5 Lightning leads
Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 18.6 (#277), Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: 26.8 (#127)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.7 Sonnet | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1333 | 1337 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 0.9% | — |
| SimpleBench | 46.4% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 28.6% | — |
| EnigmaEval | 4.2% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 87.8% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 74% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 141.16 | — |
| ForecastBench | 61.8 | — |
| LiveBench | 76.1% | — |
Math Too close to call
Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 37.5 (#153), Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: 37.5 (#155)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.7 Sonnet | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1337 | 1359 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 57.8% | — |
| Omni-MATH | 33% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 79% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 91.2% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 4.1% | — |
Knowledge Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads
Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 39.8 (#130), Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: 37.5 (#154)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.7 Sonnet | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1321 | 1356 |
| GPQA Diamond | 79.7% | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 8% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 78.4% | — |
| Confabulations | 14.7% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 60.8% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 33.7 (#95), Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3.7 Sonnet | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1169 | — |
| GeoBench | 68% | — |
| VPCT | 39% | — |
| SpatialViz-Bench | 33.9% | — |
Multilingual Too close to call
Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 44.1 (#179), Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: 44.0 (#180)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.7 Sonnet | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1296 | 1295 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1299 | 1359 |
| LMArena French | 1303 | 1366 |
| LMArena German | 1301 | 1282 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1267 | 1206 |
| LMArena Korean | 1249 | 1238 |
| LMArena Russian | 1311 | 1253 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1298 | 1345 |
Instruction Following Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads
Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 72.9 (#125), Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: 69.6 (#170)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.7 Sonnet | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1352 | 1318 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 81.3% | — |
| IFEval | 83.4% | — |
Long Context Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads
Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 50.3 (#10), Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: 39.9 (#165)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.7 Sonnet | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1373 | 1314 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | 83.3% | — |
Writing & Preference Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads
Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 54.4 (#150), Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: 48.5 (#201)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.7 Sonnet | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1314 | 1327 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1332 | 1254 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1412 | 1280 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1339 | 1328 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 81.1% | — |
| WildBench | 81.4% | — |
| LiveBench Language | 59.9% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Claude 3.7 Sonnet better than Nemotron 3.5 Lightning?
Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Nemotron 3.5 Lightning score almost the same on the Noometry Index (39.5 vs 40.0), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Is Claude 3.7 Sonnet or Nemotron 3.5 Lightning better for coding?
They score almost the same on coding (40.6 vs 40.4); test both on your own repository before choosing.
How many benchmarks do Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Nemotron 3.5 Lightning share?
18 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3.7 Sonnet has 58 scored results on Noometry and Nemotron 3.5 Lightning has 18.