Model comparison
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning vs Qwen-7B
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning has enough public results to be ranked (#156); Qwen-7B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.
NVIDIA
Alibaba (Qwen)Side by side
| Nemotron 3.5 Lightning | Qwen-7B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | NVIDIA | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 39.3 | — |
| Released | 2026-08-11 | 2023-09-28 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | 262K | — |
| Max output | 262K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.06 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.16 | — |
| Results tracked | 18 | 8 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: 39.6 (#143), Qwen-7B: —
| Benchmark | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning | Qwen-7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1370 | — |
Reasoning Not comparable
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: 25.7 (#128), Qwen-7B: —
| Benchmark | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning | Qwen-7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1335 | — |
| BIG-Bench Hard | — | 45% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 106.47 |
| LAMBADA | — | 67.9% |
| PIQA | — | 77.9% |
Math Not comparable
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: 34.7 (#156), Qwen-7B: —
| Benchmark | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning | Qwen-7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1355 | — |
| GSM8K | — | 51.7% |
Knowledge Not comparable
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: 36.9 (#154), Qwen-7B: —
| Benchmark | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning | Qwen-7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1354 | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 75.3% |
| BoolQ | — | 76.4% |
| MMLU | — | 45% |
Multilingual Not comparable
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: 44.0 (#175), Qwen-7B: —
| Benchmark | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning | Qwen-7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1292 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1356 | — |
| LMArena French | 1369 | — |
| LMArena German | 1280 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1213 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1233 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1257 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1321 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: 69.8 (#166), Qwen-7B: —
| Benchmark | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning | Qwen-7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1317 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: 39.9 (#160), Qwen-7B: —
| Benchmark | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning | Qwen-7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1312 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: 48.5 (#198), Qwen-7B: —
| Benchmark | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning | Qwen-7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1324 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1254 | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1280 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1327 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Nemotron 3.5 Lightning better than Qwen-7B?
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning has enough public results to be ranked (#156); Qwen-7B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
How many benchmarks do Nemotron 3.5 Lightning and Qwen-7B share?
0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Nemotron 3.5 Lightning has 18 scored results on Noometry and Qwen-7B has 8.