Model comparison
Llama 4 Maverick vs Nemotron 3.5 Lightning
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.3 to 30.6 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 18 shared benchmarks.
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- They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. Llama 4 Maverick scores higher in 1 category and Nemotron 3.5 Lightning in 7 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Nemotron 3.5 Lightning leads 25.7 to 10.1.
- Nemotron 3.5 Lightning is cheaper at $0.06 / $0.16 per million input/output tokens, against $0.19 / $0.65 for Llama 4 Maverick.
- Nemotron 3.5 Lightning accepts more context: 262K tokens versus 128K.
Side by side
| Llama 4 Maverick | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Meta | NVIDIA |
| Noometry Index | 30.6 | 39.3 |
| Released | 2025-04-05 | 2026-08-11 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | 128K | 262K |
| Max output | 4K | 262K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.19 | $0.06 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.65 | $0.16 |
| Results tracked | 54 | 18 |
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Category by category
Coding Nemotron 3.5 Lightning leads
Llama 4 Maverick: 26.3 (#318), Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: 39.6 (#143)
| Benchmark | Llama 4 Maverick | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1302 | 1370 |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | 21% | — |
| Aider Polyglot | 15.6% | — |
| SciCode | 33.1% | — |
| WeirdML | 24.5% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 49.7% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 61.4% | — |
| ALE-Bench | 172.97 | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Llama 4 Maverick: 27.9 (#86), Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: —
| Benchmark | Llama 4 Maverick | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 37.3% | — |
Reasoning Nemotron 3.5 Lightning leads
Llama 4 Maverick: 10.1 (#337), Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: 25.7 (#128)
| Benchmark | Llama 4 Maverick | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1281 | 1335 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 0% | — |
| SimpleBench | 27.7% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 55.9% | — |
| NYT Connections (extended) | 8% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 4.4% | — |
| CritPt | 0% | — |
| EnigmaEval | 0.6% | — |
| DTBench | 61.9% | — |
| LMCA | 15.9% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 132.2 | — |
| ForecastBench | 57.5 | — |
Math Nemotron 3.5 Lightning leads
Llama 4 Maverick: 24.6 (#256), Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: 34.7 (#156)
| Benchmark | Llama 4 Maverick | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1299 | 1355 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 20.6% | — |
| Omni-MATH | 42.2% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 73% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 0.7% | — |
Knowledge Nemotron 3.5 Lightning leads
Llama 4 Maverick: 33.3 (#196), Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: 36.9 (#154)
| Benchmark | Llama 4 Maverick | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1259 | 1354 |
| GPQA Diamond | 67% | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 5.7% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 81% | — |
| Confabulations | 22.6% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 8.2% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 65% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Llama 4 Maverick: 30.9 (#100), Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: —
| Benchmark | Llama 4 Maverick | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1141 | — |
| GeoBench | 52% | — |
| SpatialViz-Bench | 31.8% | — |
Multilingual Nemotron 3.5 Lightning leads
Llama 4 Maverick: 42.4 (#190), Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: 44.0 (#175)
| Benchmark | Llama 4 Maverick | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1269 | 1292 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1277 | 1356 |
| LMArena French | 1258 | 1369 |
| LMArena German | 1291 | 1280 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1207 | 1213 |
| LMArena Korean | 1203 | 1233 |
| LMArena Russian | 1286 | 1257 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1293 | 1321 |
Instruction Following Llama 4 Maverick leads
Llama 4 Maverick: 71.9 (#140), Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: 69.8 (#166)
| Benchmark | Llama 4 Maverick | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1267 | 1317 |
| IFEval | 90.8% | — |
Long Context Nemotron 3.5 Lightning leads
Llama 4 Maverick: 31.4 (#274), Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: 39.9 (#160)
| Benchmark | Llama 4 Maverick | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1280 | 1312 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | 46.2% | — |
Writing & Preference Nemotron 3.5 Lightning leads
Llama 4 Maverick: 39.0 (#247), Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: 48.5 (#198)
| Benchmark | Llama 4 Maverick | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1287 | 1324 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1266 | 1254 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 860 | 1280 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1289 | 1327 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 62% | — |
| WildBench | 80% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Llama 4 Maverick better than Nemotron 3.5 Lightning?
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.3 to 30.6 on the Noometry Index.
Which is cheaper, Llama 4 Maverick or Nemotron 3.5 Lightning?
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning is cheaper. It lists at $0.06 per million input tokens and $0.16 per million output tokens; Llama 4 Maverick lists at $0.19 and $0.65.
Is Llama 4 Maverick or Nemotron 3.5 Lightning better for coding?
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning scores higher on coding benchmarks: 39.6 versus 26.3 in the Noometry coding category.
Which has the bigger context window?
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning does, with 262K tokens against 128K.
How many benchmarks do Llama 4 Maverick and Nemotron 3.5 Lightning share?
18 benchmarks have published results for both models. Llama 4 Maverick has 54 scored results on Noometry and Nemotron 3.5 Lightning has 18.