Model comparison
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning vs QwQ-32B
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning and QwQ-32B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (39.3 vs 39.4), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 18 shared benchmarks.
NVIDIA
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. Nemotron 3.5 Lightning scores higher in 2 categories and QwQ-32B in 6 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in long context, where QwQ-32B leads 49.0 to 39.9.
Side by side
| Nemotron 3.5 Lightning | QwQ-32B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | NVIDIA | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 39.3 | 39.4 |
| Released | 2026-08-11 | 2024-11-28 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | 262K | — |
| Max output | 262K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.06 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.16 | — |
| Results tracked | 18 | 36 |
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Category by category
Coding Nemotron 3.5 Lightning leads
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: 39.6 (#143), QwQ-32B: 34.9 (#220)
| Benchmark | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1370 | 1333 |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 20.9% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 44.6% |
| LiveBench Coding | — | 72.2% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 54.4% |
Reasoning Nemotron 3.5 Lightning leads
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: 25.7 (#128), QwQ-32B: 22.9 (#171)
| Benchmark | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1335 | 1326 |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 5% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 83.5% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 65% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 137.6 |
| ForecastBench | — | 58.3 |
| LiveBench | — | 72% |
Math QwQ-32B leads
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: 34.7 (#156), QwQ-32B: 36.2 (#123)
| Benchmark | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1355 | 1359 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 59.2% |
| LiveBench Math | — | 77.8% |
Knowledge Too close to call
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: 36.9 (#154), QwQ-32B: 37.2 (#150)
| Benchmark | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1354 | 1323 |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 65.3% |
| Confabulations | — | 15.6% |
Multilingual Too close to call
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: 44.0 (#175), QwQ-32B: 45.0 (#171)
| Benchmark | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1292 | 1306 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1356 | 1378 |
| LMArena French | 1369 | 1337 |
| LMArena German | 1280 | 1313 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1213 | 1263 |
| LMArena Korean | 1233 | 1278 |
| LMArena Russian | 1257 | 1297 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1321 | 1353 |
Instruction Following QwQ-32B leads
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: 69.8 (#166), QwQ-32B: 72.8 (#131)
| Benchmark | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1317 | 1297 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 81.8% |
Long Context QwQ-32B leads
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: 39.9 (#160), QwQ-32B: 49.0 (#11)
| Benchmark | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1312 | 1308 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 83.3% |
Writing & Preference QwQ-32B leads
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: 48.5 (#198), QwQ-32B: 50.9 (#175)
| Benchmark | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1324 | 1329 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1254 | 1288 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1280 | 1257 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1327 | 1314 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 80.2% |
| LiveBench Language | — | 51.4% |
Frequently asked questions
Is Nemotron 3.5 Lightning better than QwQ-32B?
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning and QwQ-32B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (39.3 vs 39.4), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Is Nemotron 3.5 Lightning or QwQ-32B better for coding?
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning scores higher on coding benchmarks: 39.6 versus 34.9 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Nemotron 3.5 Lightning and QwQ-32B share?
18 benchmarks have published results for both models. Nemotron 3.5 Lightning has 18 scored results on Noometry and QwQ-32B has 36.