Model comparison
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning vs Qwen3-4B
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.3 to 31.5 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.
NVIDIA
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Nemotron 3.5 Lightning leads 25.7 to 18.5.
Side by side
| Nemotron 3.5 Lightning | Qwen3-4B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | NVIDIA | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 39.3 | 31.5 |
| Released | 2026-08-11 | 2025-04-29 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | 262K | — |
| Max output | 262K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.06 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.16 | — |
| Results tracked | 18 | 6 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: 39.6 (#143), Qwen3-4B: —
| Benchmark | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning | Qwen3-4B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1370 | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: —, Qwen3-4B: 27.3 (#94)
| Benchmark | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning | Qwen3-4B |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 35.7% |
Reasoning Nemotron 3.5 Lightning leads
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: 25.7 (#128), Qwen3-4B: 18.5 (#264)
| Benchmark | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning | Qwen3-4B |
|---|---|---|
| Chess Puzzles | — | 4% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1335 | — |
Math Nemotron 3.5 Lightning leads
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: 34.7 (#156), Qwen3-4B: 28.5 (#228)
| Benchmark | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning | Qwen3-4B |
|---|---|---|
| MathArena Final-Answer Competitions | — | 38.5% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 52.2% |
| LMArena Math | 1355 | — |
Knowledge Nemotron 3.5 Lightning leads
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: 36.9 (#154), Qwen3-4B: 33.0 (#198)
| Benchmark | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning | Qwen3-4B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 52.3% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 5.7% |
| LMArena Expert | 1354 | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: 44.0 (#175), Qwen3-4B: —
| Benchmark | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning | Qwen3-4B |
|---|---|---|
| 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), Qwen3-4B: —
| Benchmark | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning | Qwen3-4B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1317 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: 39.9 (#160), Qwen3-4B: —
| Benchmark | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning | Qwen3-4B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1312 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: 48.5 (#198), Qwen3-4B: —
| Benchmark | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning | Qwen3-4B |
|---|---|---|
| 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 Qwen3-4B?
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.3 to 31.5 on the Noometry Index.
How many benchmarks do Nemotron 3.5 Lightning and Qwen3-4B share?
0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Nemotron 3.5 Lightning has 18 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3-4B has 6.