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Nemotron 3.5 Lightning

NVIDIA · 32B · open weights

Strongest in Knowledge work (#106 of 177), weakest in Coding (#164 of 164). Above par in 0 of 10 scopes. Among the models it meets almost everywhere, it finishes behind Claude Fable 5 and GPT-6 Astra and ahead of Trinity Large and Mercury 2.5.

§ 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.

Core abilities44.6#152/204
General intelligence42.2#157/204
Agents46.1#162/267
Knowledge work44.9#106/177
Professional37.6#162/168
Medical32.9#135/140
Finance37.6#136/151
Legal37.3#139/151
Coding37#164/164
Agentic coding35.6#155/157

§ 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 Nemotron 3.5 Lightning, left for the other.

Laguna XS.2won 4 · lost 2
Mistral Small 4won 4 · lost 2
Granite 4.2 3Bwon 4 · lost 2
Granite 4.2 8Bwon 4 · lost 2
Gemma 3 27B Itwon 4 · lost 2
GPT-4.1 Nanowon 6 · lost 4
Mercury 2.5won 6 · lost 4
Trinity Largewon 4 · lost 3
Magistral Small 1.2won 3 · lost 3
Magistral Medium 1.2won 3 · lost 3
Llama 4 Scout Instructwon 4 · lost 4
GPT-4o Miniwon 4 · lost 5
GPT OSS 20Bwon 3 · lost 5
Laguna M.1won 2 · lost 4
Mistral Small 3.1won 2 · lost 4
Mistral Medium 3.1won 2 · lost 4
Grok Build 0.1won 2 · lost 4
Mistral Medium 3.5won 3 · lost 7
Mistral Large 3won 3 · lost 7
Claude 3.5 Haikuwon 2 · lost 5
O3 Miniwon 2 · lost 6
Qwen3.6 27Bwon 2 · lost 7
GPT-5.4 Miniwon 2 · lost 7
Command Awon 2 · lost 7
Gemma 4 31Bwon 2 · lost 7
Grok 4.3won 2 · lost 8
Gemini 3.5 Flash Litewon 2 · lost 8
GPT-5.4 Nanowon 2 · lost 8
Qwen3.6 Pluswon 2 · lost 8
Nemotron 3 Ultrawon 2 · lost 8
DeepSeek V3won 2 · lost 8
Gemini 3.1 Flash Litewon 2 · lost 8
DeepSeek R1won 2 · lost 8
Gemini 2.5 Prowon 2 · lost 8
Kimi K2.7 Codewon 1 · lost 5
Mistral Smallwon 1 · lost 5
Qwen3 32Bwon 1 · lost 5
Grok 4.1 Fastwon 1 · lost 6
GPT-5 Nanowon 1 · lost 6
Grok 4 Fastwon 1 · lost 7
Kimi K2.6won 1 · lost 9
MiniMax M3won 1 · lost 9
GPT-6 Lunawon 1 · lost 9
GPT-4.1 Miniwon 1 · lost 9
GPT-4owon 0 · lost 6
Gemini 3 Flashwon 0 · lost 6
Qwen 3.5 Pluswon 0 · lost 6
Qwen3.5 Flashwon 0 · lost 6
MiniMax M2.1won 0 · lost 6
DeepSeek V4won 0 · lost 6
O1won 0 · lost 6
Hy4won 0 · lost 6
K2 Horizon 3.7Bwon 0 · lost 6
Qwen3.6 35B A3Bwon 0 · lost 6
K2 Horizon 7Bwon 0 · lost 6
GLM-4.5won 0 · lost 6
K2 Horizon 375B A23Bwon 0 · lost 6
Qwen3.8 Flash Nextwon 0 · lost 6
Claude 3.7 Sonnetwon 0 · lost 7
Gemini 2.5 Flash Litewon 0 · lost 7
Ling 3.0 Flashwon 0 · lost 8
Muse Sparkwon 0 · lost 8
Inkling Smallwon 0 · lost 8
MiniMax M2.7won 0 · lost 8
GPT-5.1won 0 · lost 8
Mimo V2.5won 0 · lost 8
GLM-4.7won 0 · lost 8
GLM-5.1won 0 · lost 8
Gemini 2.0 Flashwon 0 · lost 8
MiniMax M2.5won 0 · lost 8
Claude Opus 4.6won 0 · lost 8
Grok 3 Miniwon 0 · lost 8
Grok 3won 0 · lost 8
Kimi K2 Thinkingwon 0 · lost 8
Qwen3 Maxwon 0 · lost 8
Claude Opus 4won 0 · lost 8
GLM-5won 0 · lost 8
Grok 4.20won 0 · lost 8
Qwen3.7 Pluswon 0 · lost 9
Kimi K2won 0 · lost 9
GPT-4.1won 0 · lost 9
Gemini 2.5 Flashwon 0 · lost 9
Claude Opus 4.5won 0 · lost 9
GPT-5.2won 0 · lost 9
O4 Miniwon 0 · lost 9
O3won 0 · lost 9
Grok 4won 0 · lost 9
Mimo V2.6 Prowon 0 · lost 9
Gemini 3 Prowon 0 · lost 9
Muse Spark 1.3won 0 · lost 9
GPT-5.6 Lunawon 0 · lost 10
Claude Haiku 4.5won 0 · lost 10
GLM-5.3 Flashwon 0 · lost 10
Inklingwon 0 · lost 10
GPT OSS 120Bwon 0 · lost 10
GLM-5.2won 0 · lost 10
Claude Sonnet 4.6won 0 · lost 10
GLM-4.6won 0 · lost 10
Muse Spark 1.1won 0 · lost 10
Ling 3.0 Flash Finwon 0 · lost 10
Claude Sonnet 5won 0 · lost 10
DeepSeek V3.2won 0 · lost 10
Mimo V2.5 Prowon 0 · lost 10
Gemini 3.6 Flashwon 0 · lost 10
DeepSeek V4 Flashwon 0 · lost 10
Qwen3.7 Maxwon 0 · lost 10
Claude Sonnet 4.5won 0 · lost 10
Gemini 3.5 Flashwon 0 · lost 10
Qwen3.8 27Bwon 0 · lost 10
GLM-5.3won 0 · lost 10
Claude Opus 4.8won 0 · lost 10
DeepSeek V4 Prowon 0 · lost 10
Muse Spark 1.2won 0 · lost 10
Claude Opus 4.7won 0 · lost 10
GPT-5.6 Terrawon 0 · lost 10
Claude Opus 5won 0 · lost 10
GPT-5 Miniwon 0 · lost 10
Gemini 3.8 Flashwon 0 · lost 10
GPT-5.4won 0 · lost 10
GPT-5won 0 · lost 10
Claude Sonnet 4won 0 · lost 10
Grok 4.5won 0 · lost 10
Gemini 3.7 Flashwon 0 · lost 10
Grok 4.6won 0 · lost 10
DeepSeek V4.1 Flashwon 0 · lost 10
Grok 4.7won 0 · lost 10
Qwen3.8 Maxwon 0 · lost 10
Kimi K2.5won 0 · lost 10
Gemini 3.1 Prowon 0 · lost 10
Kimi K3won 0 · lost 10
GPT-6 Solwon 0 · lost 10
GPT-5.6 Solwon 0 · lost 10
Claude Opus 5.5won 0 · lost 10
GPT-5.5won 0 · lost 10
Claude Fable 5.1won 0 · lost 10
GPT-6 Astrawon 0 · lost 10
Claude Fable 5won 0 · lost 10

§ 3 · Sources

Where the numbers come from

4 publications, 11 figures. Every one links to the page it was read from.

Artificial Analysis ↗1 measureread 2026-09-27
Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index 13
GDPval-AA ↗1 measureread 2026-09-27
GDPval-AA 624
AA-Briefcase ↗1 measureread 2026-09-27
AA-Briefcase 505
Vals.ai ↗8 measuresread 2026-09-27
Vals · Legal Research Bench 2.88%Vals · Harvey Legal Agent Benchmark 0%Vals · Finance Agent 18.5%Vals · CorpFin 54.23%Vals · MedScribe 4.27%Vals · SWE-bench Verified 52.8% (Mini-SWE-agent)Vals · Vibe Code Bench 0% (OpenHands)Vals · Code Migration 2.95%

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