Model comparison

Nemotron 4 340b Instruct vs Qwen3.5-Flash

Qwen3.5-Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.5 to 35.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.

Nemotron 4 340b Instruct NVIDIA

35.9

Rank #223 Confirmed

Qwen3.5-Flash Alibaba (Qwen)

42.5

Rank #112 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Nemotron 4 340b Instruct scores higher in 1 category and Qwen3.5-Flash in 7 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Qwen3.5-Flash leads 57.9 to 42.7.
  • Nemotron 4 340b Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Nemotron 4 340b Instruct and Qwen3.5-Flash specifications
Nemotron 4 340b InstructQwen3.5-Flash
ProviderNVIDIAAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index35.942.5
Released2024-06-142026-02-23
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window—1M
Max output—66K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.10
Output $ / M tokens—$0.40
Results tracked1732

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Category by category

Coding Nemotron 4 340b Instruct leads

Nemotron 4 340b Instruct: 35.2 (#228), Qwen3.5-Flash: 34.2 (#242)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkNemotron 4 340b InstructQwen3.5-Flash
LMArena Coding12091412
LMArena WebDev—1244
ALE-Bench—221.8

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Nemotron 4 340b Instruct: —, Qwen3.5-Flash: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkNemotron 4 340b InstructQwen3.5-Flash
Vending-Bench 2—462.69

Reasoning Qwen3.5-Flash leads

Nemotron 4 340b Instruct: 23.4 (#178), Qwen3.5-Flash: 33.7 (#72)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkNemotron 4 340b InstructQwen3.5-Flash
LMArena Hard Prompts12021403
Chess Puzzles—21%
Mystery Game Puzzles—20%
DTBench—82.9%
LMCA—29.1%
Epoch Capabilities Index—143.98

Math Qwen3.5-Flash leads

Nemotron 4 340b Instruct: 34.3 (#195), Qwen3.5-Flash: 37.4 (#158)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkNemotron 4 340b InstructQwen3.5-Flash
LMArena Math12161407
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—18.2%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—84.4%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—6.2%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)—0%

Knowledge Qwen3.5-Flash leads

Nemotron 4 340b Instruct: 32.0 (#216), Qwen3.5-Flash: 43.2 (#93)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkNemotron 4 340b InstructQwen3.5-Flash
LMArena Expert11711407
GPQA Diamond—82.3%
SimpleQA Verified—20.3%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—10.5%

Multilingual Qwen3.5-Flash leads

Nemotron 4 340b Instruct: 37.9 (#233), Qwen3.5-Flash: 50.5 (#121)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkNemotron 4 340b InstructQwen3.5-Flash
LMArena Non-English12061385
LMArena Chinese12141446
LMArena French11971412
LMArena German11921390
LMArena Japanese11281368
LMArena Korean11481344
LMArena Russian12191379
LMArena Spanish11951400

Instruction Following Qwen3.5-Flash leads

Nemotron 4 340b Instruct: 63.1 (#232), Qwen3.5-Flash: 72.6 (#139)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkNemotron 4 340b InstructQwen3.5-Flash
LMArena Instruction Following12031374

Long Context Qwen3.5-Flash leads

Nemotron 4 340b Instruct: 37.1 (#221), Qwen3.5-Flash: 42.4 (#124)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkNemotron 4 340b InstructQwen3.5-Flash
LMArena Longer Query12251392

Writing & Preference Qwen3.5-Flash leads

Nemotron 4 340b Instruct: 42.7 (#233), Qwen3.5-Flash: 57.9 (#122)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkNemotron 4 340b InstructQwen3.5-Flash
LMArena Text12251397
LMArena Creative Writing12031343
LMArena Multi-Turn12141393

Frequently asked questions

Is Nemotron 4 340b Instruct better than Qwen3.5-Flash?

Qwen3.5-Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.5 to 35.9 on the Noometry Index.

Is Nemotron 4 340b Instruct or Qwen3.5-Flash better for coding?

Nemotron 4 340b Instruct scores higher on coding benchmarks: 35.2 versus 34.2 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Nemotron 4 340b Instruct and Qwen3.5-Flash share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Nemotron 4 340b Instruct has 17 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.5-Flash has 32.

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