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NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B (NVFP4)

NVIDIA · 32B · A3B · open weights

Strongest in Cybersecurity (#44 of 46), weakest in Agents (#289 of 289). Above par in 2 of 23 scopes. Among the models it meets almost everywhere, it finishes behind Claude Opus 5.5 and Claude Fable 5.1.

§ 1 · Profile

What it is good at

Bars run from 50 — the average of the models each source lists — so right of the line is above par. The middle column is the gap to whoever leads that scope.

Human preference52.2#170/350
Human preference52.2#170/350
Coding32.4#176/176
Agentic coding31.6#169/169
Professional34.3#188/188
Cybersecurity27#44/46
Document design26#48/48
Medical32.9#143/149
Finance37.6#145/161
Legal35.8#155/164
Reasoning33.6#189/190
Reasoning31.8#144/144
Mathematics32.9#149/150
Core abilities29.8#225/225
Data analysis26#48/48
Instruction following26.8#60/62
Language26#62/62
General intelligence35#205/214
Agents36.6#289/289
Web research30#48/49
Long-horizon work31.8#48/48
Computer use33.2#79/81
Knowledge work43.6#125/198

§ 2 · Head to head

What it beats, and what beats it

The same models turn up scope after scope. Counted once: where both were placed, who finished higher. Bars run right for NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B (NVFP4), left for the other.

GPT-4o miniwon 4 · lost 10
GPT-4.1 nanowon 4 · lost 11
GPT OSS 120Bwon 2 · lost 13
Mistral Medium 3.5won 1 · lost 13
Gemini 3.1 Flash-Litewon 1 · lost 13
GPT-4.1 miniwon 1 · lost 14
DeepSeek V3won 1 · lost 14
Mistral Large 3won 1 · lost 14
DeepSeek R1won 1 · lost 14
Gemini 2.5 Prowon 1 · lost 14
Gemma 4 31Bwon 1 · lost 17
Mistral Large 4won 1 · lost 21
MiniMax M3won 1 · lost 22
GLM-5.3 Flashwon 1 · lost 22
GPT-6.1 Solwon 1 · lost 22
Qwen3.8 Maxwon 1 · lost 22
Nemotron 3.5 Super VLwon 0 · lost 14
Muse Spark Openwon 0 · lost 14
O4 Miniwon 0 · lost 14
Gemini 2.5 Flashwon 0 · lost 14
Grok 4won 0 · lost 14
GPT-4.1won 0 · lost 14
Kimi K2won 0 · lost 14
GLM-4.6won 0 · lost 14
Gemini 3 Prowon 0 · lost 14
MiniMax M3.1 Flashwon 0 · lost 15
GPT-5 miniwon 0 · lost 15
DeepSeek V3.2won 0 · lost 15
O3won 0 · lost 15
GPT-5won 0 · lost 15
Grok 4.3won 0 · lost 15
Qwen3.6 Pluswon 0 · lost 15
MiMo V2.6 Flashwon 0 · lost 15
Claude Opus 4.6won 0 · lost 15
Beam 1.0won 0 · lost 16
Claude Sonnet 4won 0 · lost 16
Inkling Smallwon 0 · lost 16
GPT-5.2won 0 · lost 16
GPT-5.4 miniwon 0 · lost 16
Kimi K2.5won 0 · lost 16
Kimi K2.6won 0 · lost 16
Qwen3.7 Maxwon 0 · lost 16
Muse Spark 1.1won 0 · lost 16
DeepSeek V4 Flash Visionwon 0 · lost 17
GPT-5.4 nanowon 0 · lost 17
GPT-5.4won 0 · lost 17
GLM-5.2won 0 · lost 17
Gemini 3.5 Flashwon 0 · lost 17
Gemini 3.6 Flashwon 0 · lost 17
Claude Opus 4.7won 0 · lost 17
DeepSeek V4 Flashwon 0 · lost 18
Gemini 3.5 Flash-Litewon 0 · lost 18
Step 5won 0 · lost 19
Claude Haiku 4.5won 0 · lost 20
Claude Haiku 5.5won 0 · lost 21
MiMo V2.6 Prowon 0 · lost 21
Gemini 4 Argonwon 0 · lost 21
Claude Sonnet 4.6won 0 · lost 22
Claude Opus 4.8won 0 · lost 22
GPT-5.5won 0 · lost 22
Gemini 3.1 Prowon 0 · lost 22
Muse Spark 1.3won 0 · lost 22
Claude Fable 5won 0 · lost 22
Muse Wonderwon 0 · lost 22
Qwen3.8 27Bwon 0 · lost 23
Inklingwon 0 · lost 23
GPT-6 Lunawon 0 · lost 23
Grok 4.7won 0 · lost 23
GPT-5.6 Lunawon 0 · lost 23
Grok 4.6won 0 · lost 23
GPT-6 Solwon 0 · lost 23
Claude Sonnet 5won 0 · lost 23
Grok 4.5won 0 · lost 23
GPT-5.6 Terrawon 0 · lost 23
DeepSeek V4.1 Flashwon 0 · lost 23
GPT-6 Astrawon 0 · lost 23
Claude Sonnet 5.5won 0 · lost 23
GLM-5.3won 0 · lost 23
GPT-5.6 Solwon 0 · lost 23
Kimi K3won 0 · lost 23
Gemini 3.7 Flashwon 0 · lost 23
Claude Opus 5won 0 · lost 23
Muse Spark 1.2won 0 · lost 23
Gemini 3.8 Flashwon 0 · lost 23
Claude Fable 5.1won 0 · lost 23
Claude Opus 5.5won 0 · lost 23

§ 3 · Sources

Where the numbers come from

7 publications, 27 figures. Every one links to the page it was read from.

LMArena Text ↗1 measureread 2026-10-21
LMArena Text 1353
Artificial Analysis ↗1 measureread 2026-10-21
Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index 13
GDPval-AA ↗1 measureread 2026-10-21
GDPval-AA 639
AA-Briefcase ↗1 measureread 2026-10-21
AA-Briefcase 506
LiveBench ↗8 measuresread 2026-10-21
LiveBench 28.7LiveBench · Agentic 8.3LiveBench · Reasoning 42.9LiveBench · Coding 22.6LiveBench · Browser Use 0LiveBench · Data Analysis 43.1LiveBench · Research 40LiveBench · Design 43.9
LiveBench 1.0 ↗8 measuresread 2026-10-21
LiveBench 1.0 44.5LiveBench 1.0 · Reasoning 42.9LiveBench 1.0 · Coding 45.8LiveBench 1.0 · Agentic Coding 19.9LiveBench 1.0 · Mathematics 66.5LiveBench 1.0 · Data Analysis 43.1LiveBench 1.0 · Language 38.3LiveBench 1.0 · Instruction Following 54.9
Vals.ai ↗7 measuresread 2026-10-21
Vals · Legal Research Bench 2.88%Vals · Finance Agent 18.5%Vals · CorpFin 54.23%Vals · MedScribe 4.27%Vals · CyberBench 29.46%Vals · SWE-bench Verified 52.8% (Mini-SWE-agent)Vals · Code Migration 2.95%

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