Nemotron 3.5 Lightning vs Qwen3.7 Plus
Qwen3.7 Plus leads Nemotron 3.5 Lightning on coding, 33.2 to 22.6 on the Vibe Coding Index, and Nemotron 3.5 Lightning costs 8.7x less per output token ($0.147 vs $1.28 per million). Updated October 22, 2026; 14 benchmarks have a result for both.
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning or Qwen3.7 Plus: which to pick
Pick Qwen3.7 Plus for coding: it scores 33.2 on the Vibe Coding Index against 22.6 for Nemotron 3.5 Lightning.
Pick Nemotron 3.5 Lightning for output tokens 8.7x cheaper ($0.147 vs $1.28 per million).
- Shared results
- 14
- Nemotron 3.5 Lightning only
- 6
- Qwen3.7 Plus only
- 61
- Like-for-like categories
- 5 of 9
Only benchmarks that tested both models count toward a pick; a result only one model has is shown but not compared.
Which one for your work
Each card is decided by one number both models carry. Where only one has it, the card says so and makes no call.
Coding
Vibe Coding Index, six public coding benchmarks
Qwen3.7 Plus
Qwen3.7 Plus scores 33.2 against 22.6.
2 benchmarks behind each score
Intelligence
AA Intelligence Index
Qwen3.7 Plus
Qwen3.7 Plus leads, 25.2 against 12.9.
Same board, both measured
Agentic work
AA Agentic Index
Qwen3.7 Plus
Qwen3.7 Plus leads, 17.5 against 3.5.
Same board, both measured
Web design
Design Arena: websites
No call
Only Qwen3.7 Plus has a Design Arena: websites result, 1269.
Directional only
Long documents
Listed context window
Qwen3.7 Plus
Qwen3.7 Plus takes 1M tokens against 262K.
Listed by OpenRouter
Everyday cost
1K input + 500 output tokens
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning $0.0001, Qwen3.7 Plus $0.0010 per turn.
List prices
Cost per solved task
One SWE-bench Verified task, solved
No call
Only Nemotron 3.5 Lightning has the number, $0.06.
Directional only
At a glance
- Coding index
- Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 22.6 from 2 benchmarks, Qwen3.7 Plus 33.2 from 2 benchmarks.
- Widest category
- Coding, 28.3 points apart on average over 5 shared benchmarks.
- Widest single gap
- Vibe Code Bench (Vals AI): Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 0.0% against Qwen3.7 Plus 46.4%, 46.4 points apart on a 0 to 100 scale.
- Output price
- Nemotron 3.5 Lightning $0.147 against Qwen3.7 Plus $1.28 per million output tokens, 8.7x apart.
- Context window
- Nemotron 3.5 Lightning takes 262K tokens, Qwen3.7 Plus 1M.
Benchmark by benchmark
First the score: boards each model leads, per category, where both have a result. Then every board, a category to a fold; bars are each result on a 0 to 100 scale, so compare the two in a row, not one row with another.
| Category | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning | Bars | Qwen3.7 Plus | Ties |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coding | 0 | 5 | ||
| Intelligence | 0 | 1 | ||
| Agentic work | 0 | 5 | ||
| Reasoning | 0 | 2 | ||
| General | 0 | 1 | ||
| All shared boards | 0 | 14 |
CodingLike-for-likeSix of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index05
| Benchmark | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning | Qwen3.7 Plus | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Coding Index | 26.8 | 55.9 | Qwen3.7 Plus |
| SWE-bench Verified (Vals AI) | 52.8% | Not measured | Only Nemotron 3.5 Lightning measured |
| Vibe Code Bench (Vals AI) | 0.0% | 46.4% | Qwen3.7 Plus |
| Code migration (Vals AI) | 3.0% | 12.9% | Qwen3.7 Plus |
| ProgramBench (Vals AI) | 0.0% | Not measured | Only Nemotron 3.5 Lightning measured |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals AI) | 10.9% | 52.8% | Qwen3.7 Plus |
| SkillsBench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 54.3% | Only Qwen3.7 Plus measured |
| CyberBench (Vals AI) | 29.5% | Not measured | Only Nemotron 3.5 Lightning measured |
| SciCode | 32.1% | 46.1% | Qwen3.7 Plus |
| Terminal-Bench Hard (Artificial Analysis run) | Not measured | 47.0% | Only Qwen3.7 Plus measured |
| FrontierCode | Not measured | 10.2% | Only Qwen3.7 Plus measured |
| ALE-Bench | 769.2 | Not measured | Only Nemotron 3.5 Lightning measured |
| LMArena Text: coding | Not measured | 1473 | Only Qwen3.7 Plus measured |
| LMArena Text: software and IT | Not measured | 1473 | Only Qwen3.7 Plus measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 25 boards here | |||
IntelligenceLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index01
| Benchmark | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning | Qwen3.7 Plus | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Intelligence Index | 12.9 | 25.2 | Qwen3.7 Plus |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | Not measured | 147.0 | Only Qwen3.7 Plus measured |
Agentic workLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index05
| Benchmark | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning | Qwen3.7 Plus | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Agentic Index | 3.5 | 17.5 | Qwen3.7 Plus |
| Finance Agent (Vals AI) | 18.5% | 38.2% | Qwen3.7 Plus |
| Tax Agent Bench (Vals AI) | 2.6% | 10.5% | Qwen3.7 Plus |
| Legal Research Bench (Vals AI) | 2.9% | 16.4% | Qwen3.7 Plus |
| Excel Modeling Benchmark (Vals AI) | 17.0% | 49.3% | Qwen3.7 Plus |
| τ²-Bench Telecom | Not measured | 93.0% | Only Qwen3.7 Plus measured |
| OSWorld 2.0 | Not measured | 2.8% | Only Qwen3.7 Plus measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 34 boards here | |||
ReasoningLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index02
| Benchmark | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning | Qwen3.7 Plus | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond (Artificial Analysis run) | 74.3% | 90.0% | Qwen3.7 Plus |
| Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run) | 10.6% | 35.6% | Qwen3.7 Plus |
| GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI run) | Not measured | 87.9% | Only Qwen3.7 Plus measured |
| Mystery game puzzles | Not measured | 17.0% | Only Qwen3.7 Plus measured |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts | Not measured | 1460 | Only Qwen3.7 Plus measured |
| LMArena Text: expert | Not measured | 1466 | Only Qwen3.7 Plus measured |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts in English | Not measured | 1460 | Only Qwen3.7 Plus measured |
| LMArena Vision: diagrams | Not measured | 1292 | Only Qwen3.7 Plus measured |
| LMArena Vision: homework | Not measured | 1295 | Only Qwen3.7 Plus measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 13 boards here | |||
MathDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index4 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning | Qwen3.7 Plus | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME | Not measured | 93.3% | Only Qwen3.7 Plus measured |
| FrontierMath, tiers 1 to 3 | Not measured | 34.4% | Only Qwen3.7 Plus measured |
| LMArena Text: math | Not measured | 1467 | Only Qwen3.7 Plus measured |
| LMArena Text: mathematical work | Not measured | 1470 | Only Qwen3.7 Plus measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 9 boards here | |||
KnowledgeDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index6 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning | Qwen3.7 Plus | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| CorpFin (Vals AI) | 54.2% | Not measured | Only Nemotron 3.5 Lightning measured |
| MortgageTax (Vals AI) | Not measured | 66.2% | Only Qwen3.7 Plus measured |
| LMArena Text: science | Not measured | 1464 | Only Qwen3.7 Plus measured |
| LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare | Not measured | 1464 | Only Qwen3.7 Plus measured |
| LMArena Text: legal and government | Not measured | 1451 | Only Qwen3.7 Plus measured |
| LMArena Text: business and finance | Not measured | 1435 | Only Qwen3.7 Plus measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 12 boards here | |||
Web designDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index8 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning | Qwen3.7 Plus | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Design Arena: websites | Not measured | 1269 | Only Qwen3.7 Plus measured |
| Design Arena: UI components | Not measured | 1258 | Only Qwen3.7 Plus measured |
| Design Arena: game dev | Not measured | 1261 | Only Qwen3.7 Plus measured |
| Design Arena: data viz | Not measured | 1276 | Only Qwen3.7 Plus measured |
| Design Arena: 3D | Not measured | 1238 | Only Qwen3.7 Plus measured |
| Design Arena: all code categories | Not measured | 1269 | Only Qwen3.7 Plus measured |
| Design Arena: SVG | Not measured | 1208 | Only Qwen3.7 Plus measured |
| Design Arena: ASCII art | Not measured | 1143 | Only Qwen3.7 Plus measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 1 board here | |||
GeneralLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index01
| Benchmark | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning | Qwen3.7 Plus | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| SAGE (Vals AI) | Not measured | 39.3% | Only Qwen3.7 Plus measured |
| MedScribe (Vals AI) | 4.3% | Not measured | Only Nemotron 3.5 Lightning measured |
| Vals Multimodal Index | Not measured | 53.9% | Only Qwen3.7 Plus measured |
| IFBench | Not measured | 78.0% | Only Qwen3.7 Plus measured |
| Long context reasoning (AA-LCR) | 60.3% | 73.0% | Qwen3.7 Plus |
| DTBench | Not measured | 84.0% | Only Qwen3.7 Plus measured |
| LMCA | Not measured | 37.6% | Only Qwen3.7 Plus measured |
| LMArena Text | Not measured | 1454 | Only Qwen3.7 Plus measured |
| LMArena Text: instruction following | Not measured | 1439 | Only Qwen3.7 Plus measured |
| LMArena Text: creative writing | Not measured | 1438 | Only Qwen3.7 Plus measured |
| LMArena Vision | Not measured | 1278 | Only Qwen3.7 Plus measured |
| LMArena Text: English | Not measured | 1458 | Only Qwen3.7 Plus measured |
| LMArena Text: non-English | Not measured | 1445 | Only Qwen3.7 Plus measured |
| LMArena Text: Chinese | Not measured | 1509 | Only Qwen3.7 Plus measured |
| LMArena Text: German | Not measured | 1471 | Only Qwen3.7 Plus measured |
| LMArena Text: Japanese | Not measured | 1412 | Only Qwen3.7 Plus measured |
| LMArena Text: Korean | Not measured | 1413 | Only Qwen3.7 Plus measured |
| LMArena Text: French | Not measured | 1472 | Only Qwen3.7 Plus measured |
| LMArena Text: Spanish | Not measured | 1457 | Only Qwen3.7 Plus measured |
| LMArena Text: Russian | Not measured | 1457 | Only Qwen3.7 Plus measured |
| LMArena Text: Polish | Not measured | 1449 | Only Qwen3.7 Plus measured |
| LMArena Text: multi-turn | Not measured | 1459 | Only Qwen3.7 Plus measured |
| LMArena Text: longer queries | Not measured | 1454 | Only Qwen3.7 Plus measured |
| LMArena Text: writing and language | Not measured | 1437 | Only Qwen3.7 Plus measured |
| LMArena Text: entertainment and media | Not measured | 1422 | Only Qwen3.7 Plus measured |
| LMArena Vision: English | Not measured | 1280 | Only Qwen3.7 Plus measured |
| LMArena Vision: Chinese | Not measured | 1332 | Only Qwen3.7 Plus measured |
| LMArena Vision: reading text | Not measured | 1288 | Only Qwen3.7 Plus measured |
| LMArena Vision: humor | Not measured | 1261 | Only Qwen3.7 Plus measured |
| LMArena Vision: creative writing | Not measured | 1258 | Only Qwen3.7 Plus measured |
| LMArena Document | Not measured | 1444 | Only Qwen3.7 Plus measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 15 boards here | |||
Image generationNot comparablePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index0 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning | Qwen3.7 Plus | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Neither model has a result on 5 boards here | |||
What each workload costs
Three fixed token mixes at each model's listed price, so per-token rates become a bill.
Chat turn
1K input + 500 output tokens
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning costs less
Repository review
50K input + 3K output tokens
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning costs less
Agent loop
200K input + 10K output tokens
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning costs less
Listed OpenRouter rates, without cache or batch discounts. A workload that does not fit a model's context window would need splitting.
Specification differences
The leading value in a row is marked; a row with a missing value names no leader. Our two rows are marked in red.
| Specification | NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning | Qwen3.7 Plus |
|---|---|---|
| Maker | NVIDIA | Qwen |
| Weights | Open weights | No public weights listed |
| Released | August 11, 2026 | June 3, 2026 |
| Context window | 262K | 1M |
| Input $/Mtok | $0.0534 | $0.32 |
| Output $/Mtok | $0.147 | $1.28 |
| Coding index | 22.6 | 33.2 |
| Independent measurements behind it | 2 | 2 |
| Cost per solved task | $0.06 | Not computable |
| Source | OpenRouter listing | OpenRouter listing |
Questions
Is Nemotron 3.5 Lightning better than Qwen3.7 Plus for coding?
Pick Qwen3.7 Plus for coding: it scores 33.2 on the Vibe Coding Index against 22.6 for Nemotron 3.5 Lightning. Pick Nemotron 3.5 Lightning for output tokens 8.7x cheaper ($0.147 vs $1.28 per million).
Which is cheaper, Nemotron 3.5 Lightning or Qwen3.7 Plus?
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning costs $0.0534 per million input tokens and $0.147 per million output tokens; Qwen3.7 Plus costs $0.32 and $1.28. Cost per solved task is known for Nemotron 3.5 Lightning only.
Which has the bigger context window, Nemotron 3.5 Lightning or Qwen3.7 Plus?
Qwen3.7 Plus, with 1M tokens against 262K.
How many benchmarks is the Nemotron 3.5 Lightning vs Qwen3.7 Plus comparison based on?
14 benchmarks have a result for both models as of October 22, 2026. Nemotron 3.5 Lightning's coding index rests on 2 independent benchmarks and Qwen3.7 Plus's on 2. Where only one model has a result, the page says so instead of naming a winner.