Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B

Composite indexes

• Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index#94 of 151
  13independentIntelligence Index v4.3; reasoningArtificial Analysis: Nemotron 3.5 Lightning ↗

  Leader: Claude Opus 5.5 at 58

Coding

• SciCode#91 of 100
  32.6%vendorNVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning model card (NVIDIA-measured comparison table) ↗
  32.1%independentreasoningArtificial Analysis: Nemotron 3.5 Lightning ↗

  Leader: Claude Opus 5.5 at 66.9%

• Terminal-Bench 4.0#64 of 96
  0.5%independentreasoningArtificial Analysis: Nemotron 3.5 Lightning ↗

  Leader: Claude Sonnet 5.5 at 70.6%

• Terminal-Bench 2.x#82 of 105
  24.6%vendorTerminal-Bench 2.1NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning model card (NVIDIA-measured comparison table) ↗
  24.3%independentTerminal-Bench 2.1; reasoningArtificial Analysis: Nemotron 3.5 Lightning ↗

  Leader: Claude Fable 5.1 at 91.4%

• SWE-bench Verified#15 of 18
  51.6%vendorNVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning model card (NVIDIA-measured comparison table) ↗

  Leader: Claude Sonnet 5 at 85.2%

Agents and tool use

• GDPval-AA#76 of 109
  832vendorGDPval-AA v2NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning model card (NVIDIA-measured comparison table) ↗
  624independentreasoningArtificial Analysis: Nemotron 3.5 Lightning ↗

  Leader: Muse Wonder Full at 1857

• BrowseComp#14 of 16
  37.0%vendorNVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning model card (NVIDIA-measured comparison table) ↗

  Leader: GPT-6 Astra at 91.5%

Reasoning and knowledge

• GPQA Diamond#93 of 144
  75.4%vendorno toolsNVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning model card (NVIDIA-measured comparison table) ↗
  74.3%independentreasoningArtificial Analysis: Nemotron 3.5 Lightning ↗

  Leader: GPT-6 Astra at 96.1%

• Humanity’s Last Exam#108 of 153
  11.7%vendortext-only, no toolsNVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning model card (NVIDIA-measured comparison table) ↗
  10.6%independentno tools; reasoningArtificial Analysis: Nemotron 3.5 Lightning ↗

  Leader: Claude Sonnet 5.5 at 64.5%

• CritPt#115 of 144
  0%independentreasoningArtificial Analysis: Nemotron 3.5 Lightning ↗

  Leader: Muse Wonder Full at 33%

• MMLU-Pro#6 of 15
  81.9%vendorNVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning model card (NVIDIA-measured comparison table) ↗

  Leader: Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B A55B at 86.8%

Vision and long context

• AA Long Context Reasoning#89 of 144
  60.3%independentreasoningArtificial Analysis: Nemotron 3.5 Lightning ↗
  52%vendorNVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning model card (NVIDIA-measured comparison table) ↗

  Leader: Kimi K3 at 88.7%

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