Model comparison
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning vs Phi-3.5-mini
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning has enough public results to be ranked (#155); Phi-3.5-mini does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.
NVIDIA
MicrosoftSummary
- The widest gap is in coding, where Nemotron 3.5 Lightning leads 40.4 to 34.6.
Side by side
| Nemotron 3.5 Lightning | Phi-3.5-mini | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | NVIDIA | Microsoft |
| Noometry Index | 40.0 | 36.9 |
| Released | 2026-08-11 | 2024-08-16 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | 262K | — |
| Max output | 262K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.05 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.20 | — |
| Results tracked | 18 | 5 |
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Category by category
Coding Nemotron 3.5 Lightning leads
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: 40.4 (#141), Phi-3.5-mini: 34.6 (#232)
| Benchmark | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning | Phi-3.5-mini |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 32.8% |
| LMArena Coding | 1375 | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 38.5% |
Reasoning Not comparable
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: 26.8 (#127), Phi-3.5-mini: —
| Benchmark | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning | Phi-3.5-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1337 | — |
| PIQA | — | 81% |
Math Not comparable
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: 37.5 (#155), Phi-3.5-mini: —
| Benchmark | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning | Phi-3.5-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1359 | — |
| GSM8K | — | 86.2% |
Knowledge Not comparable
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: 37.5 (#154), Phi-3.5-mini: —
| Benchmark | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning | Phi-3.5-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1356 | — |
| BoolQ | — | 78% |
Multilingual Not comparable
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: 44.0 (#180), Phi-3.5-mini: —
| Benchmark | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning | Phi-3.5-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1295 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1359 | — |
| LMArena French | 1366 | — |
| LMArena German | 1282 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1206 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1238 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1253 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1345 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: 69.6 (#170), Phi-3.5-mini: —
| Benchmark | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning | Phi-3.5-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1318 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: 39.9 (#165), Phi-3.5-mini: —
| Benchmark | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning | Phi-3.5-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1314 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: 48.5 (#201), Phi-3.5-mini: —
| Benchmark | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning | Phi-3.5-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1327 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1254 | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1280 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1328 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Nemotron 3.5 Lightning better than Phi-3.5-mini?
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning has enough public results to be ranked (#155); Phi-3.5-mini does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Is Nemotron 3.5 Lightning or Phi-3.5-mini better for coding?
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning scores higher on coding benchmarks: 40.4 versus 34.6 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Nemotron 3.5 Lightning and Phi-3.5-mini share?
0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Nemotron 3.5 Lightning has 18 scored results on Noometry and Phi-3.5-mini has 5.