Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B vs Qwen3.5-Flash
Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B and Qwen3.5-Flash cost about the same per output token ($0.22 vs $0.26 per million). Updated October 23, 2026; 28 benchmarks have a result for both.
Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B or Qwen3.5-Flash: which to pick
Only Qwen3.5-Flash has a coding score, 41.1 on the Vibe Coding Index; Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B has none, so the two cannot be ranked on coding.
Pick Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B for output tokens 1.2x cheaper ($0.22 vs $0.26 per million).
- Shared results
- 28
- Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B only
- 14
- Qwen3.5-Flash only
- 27
- 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
No call
Only Qwen3.5-Flash has a coding score, so no call is made.
One side not measured
Intelligence
AA Intelligence Index
No call
Only Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B has a AA Intelligence Index result, 8.9.
Directional only
Agentic work
AA Agentic Index
No call
Only Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B has a AA Agentic Index result, 1.0.
Directional only
Reasoning
GPQA Diamond
No call
Only Qwen3.5-Flash has a GPQA Diamond result, 82.8%.
Directional only
Math
AIME
No call
Only Qwen3.5-Flash has a AIME result, 92.5%.
Directional only
Knowledge
MMLU Pro
No call
Only Qwen3.5-Flash has a MMLU Pro result, 84.1%.
Directional only
Long documents
Listed context window
Qwen3.5-Flash
Qwen3.5-Flash takes 1M tokens against 262K.
Listed by OpenRouter
Everyday cost
1K input + 500 output tokens
Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B
Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B $0.0002, Qwen3.5-Flash $0.0002 per turn.
List prices
Cost per solved task
One SWE-bench Verified task, solved
No call
Only Qwen3.5-Flash has the number, $0.40.
Directional only
At a glance
- Coding index
- Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B not benchmarked, Qwen3.5-Flash 41.1 from 2 benchmarks.
- Widest category
- General, 10.4 points apart on average over 17 shared benchmarks.
- Widest single gap
- LMArena Text: Japanese: Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B 1269 against Qwen3.5-Flash 1369, 16.7 points apart on a 0 to 100 scale.
- Output price
- Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B $0.22 against Qwen3.5-Flash $0.26 per million output tokens, 1.2x apart.
- Context window
- Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B takes 262K tokens, Qwen3.5-Flash 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 Nano 30B A3B | Bars | Qwen3.5-Flash | Ties |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coding | 0 | 2 | ||
| Reasoning | 0 | 3 | ||
| Math | 0 | 2 | ||
| Knowledge | 0 | 4 | ||
| General | 0 | 17 | ||
| All shared boards | 0 | 28 |
CodingLike-for-likeSix of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index02
| Benchmark | Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B | Qwen3.5-Flash | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| LMArena WebDev | Not measured | 1244 | Only Qwen3.5-Flash measured |
| AA Coding Index | 14.4 | Not measured | Only Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B measured |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 83.3% | Only Qwen3.5-Flash measured |
| SWE-bench Verified (Vals AI) | Not measured | 64.4% | Only Qwen3.5-Flash measured |
| LiveCodeBench (Artificial Analysis run) | 74.1% | Not measured | Only Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B measured |
| SciCode | 30.6% | Not measured | Only Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B measured |
| Terminal-Bench Hard (Artificial Analysis run) | 13.6% | Not measured | Only Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B measured |
| ALE-Bench | Not measured | 265.9 | Only Qwen3.5-Flash measured |
| LMArena Text: coding | 1378 | 1412 | Qwen3.5-Flash |
| LMArena Text: software and IT | 1382 | 1416 | Qwen3.5-Flash |
| LMArena WebDev: React | Not measured | 1229 | Only Qwen3.5-Flash measured |
| LMArena WebDev: HTML | Not measured | 1291 | Only Qwen3.5-Flash measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 31 boards here | |||
IntelligenceDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index2 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B | Qwen3.5-Flash | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Intelligence Index | 8.9 | Not measured | Only Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B measured |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | Not measured | 143.5 | Only Qwen3.5-Flash measured |
Agentic workDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index2 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B | Qwen3.5-Flash | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Agentic Index | 1.0 | Not measured | Only Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B measured |
| τ²-Bench Telecom | 40.9% | Not measured | Only Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 40 boards here | |||
ReasoningLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index03
| Benchmark | Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B | Qwen3.5-Flash | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | Not measured | 82.8% | Only Qwen3.5-Flash measured |
| MMMU Pro (Vals AI) | Not measured | 81.9% | Only Qwen3.5-Flash measured |
| GPQA Diamond (Artificial Analysis run) | 75.7% | Not measured | Only Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B measured |
| Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run) | 11.4% | Not measured | Only Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B measured |
| GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI run) | Not measured | 82.3% | Only Qwen3.5-Flash measured |
| Chess puzzles | Not measured | 14.0% | Only Qwen3.5-Flash measured |
| Mystery game puzzles | Not measured | 20.0% | Only Qwen3.5-Flash measured |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts | 1348 | 1403 | Qwen3.5-Flash |
| LMArena Text: expert | 1356 | 1407 | Qwen3.5-Flash |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts in English | 1376 | 1409 | Qwen3.5-Flash |
| Neither model has a result on the other 13 boards here | |||
MathLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index02
| Benchmark | Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B | Qwen3.5-Flash | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AIME | Not measured | 92.5% | Only Qwen3.5-Flash measured |
| AA Math Index | 91.0 | Not measured | Only Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B measured |
| AIME 2025 (Artificial Analysis run) | 91.0% | Not measured | Only Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B measured |
| OTIS Mock AIME | Not measured | 84.4% | Only Qwen3.5-Flash measured |
| FrontierMath, tiers 1 to 3 | Not measured | 18.2% | Only Qwen3.5-Flash measured |
| LMArena Text: math | 1371 | 1407 | Qwen3.5-Flash |
| LMArena Text: mathematical work | 1375 | 1413 | Qwen3.5-Flash |
| Neither model has a result on the other 7 boards here | |||
KnowledgeLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index04
| Benchmark | Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B | Qwen3.5-Flash | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| MMLU Pro | Not measured | 84.1% | Only Qwen3.5-Flash measured |
| LegalBench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 84.3% | Only Qwen3.5-Flash measured |
| CaseLaw (Vals AI) | Not measured | 56.0% | Only Qwen3.5-Flash measured |
| CorpFin (Vals AI) | Not measured | 63.6% | Only Qwen3.5-Flash measured |
| TaxEval (Vals AI) | Not measured | 72.2% | Only Qwen3.5-Flash measured |
| MortgageTax (Vals AI) | Not measured | 67.4% | Only Qwen3.5-Flash measured |
| MedCode (Vals AI) | Not measured | 33.0% | Only Qwen3.5-Flash measured |
| MMLU Pro (Artificial Analysis run) | 79.4% | Not measured | Only Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B measured |
| SimpleQA Verified | Not measured | 20.3% | Only Qwen3.5-Flash measured |
| LMArena Text: science | 1353 | 1415 | Qwen3.5-Flash |
| LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare | 1349 | 1407 | Qwen3.5-Flash |
| LMArena Text: legal and government | 1341 | 1397 | Qwen3.5-Flash |
| LMArena Text: business and finance | 1345 | 1394 | Qwen3.5-Flash |
| Neither model has a result on the other 7 boards here | |||
Web designNot comparablePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index0 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B | Qwen3.5-Flash | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Neither model has a result on 9 boards here | |||
GeneralLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index017
| Benchmark | Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B | Qwen3.5-Flash | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| SAGE (Vals AI) | Not measured | 42.5% | Only Qwen3.5-Flash measured |
| MedScribe (Vals AI) | Not measured | 70.6% | Only Qwen3.5-Flash measured |
| IFBench | 71.1% | Not measured | Only Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B measured |
| Long context reasoning (AA-LCR) | 38.0% | Not measured | Only Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B measured |
| DTBench | Not measured | 82.9% | Only Qwen3.5-Flash measured |
| LMCA | Not measured | 29.1% | Only Qwen3.5-Flash measured |
| LMArena Text | 1348 | 1397 | Qwen3.5-Flash |
| LMArena Text: instruction following | 1304 | 1375 | Qwen3.5-Flash |
| LMArena Text: creative writing | 1270 | 1343 | Qwen3.5-Flash |
| LMArena Text: English | 1378 | 1404 | Qwen3.5-Flash |
| LMArena Text: non-English | 1320 | 1385 | Qwen3.5-Flash |
| LMArena Text: Chinese | 1383 | 1446 | Qwen3.5-Flash |
| LMArena Text: German | 1348 | 1391 | Qwen3.5-Flash |
| LMArena Text: Japanese | 1269 | 1369 | Qwen3.5-Flash |
| LMArena Text: Korean | 1269 | 1344 | Qwen3.5-Flash |
| LMArena Text: French | 1396 | 1413 | Qwen3.5-Flash |
| LMArena Text: Spanish | 1376 | 1399 | Qwen3.5-Flash |
| LMArena Text: Russian | 1304 | 1380 | Qwen3.5-Flash |
| LMArena Text: Polish | 1302 | 1376 | Qwen3.5-Flash |
| LMArena Text: multi-turn | 1319 | 1393 | Qwen3.5-Flash |
| LMArena Text: longer queries | 1300 | 1392 | Qwen3.5-Flash |
| LMArena Text: writing and language | 1284 | 1369 | Qwen3.5-Flash |
| LMArena Text: entertainment and media | 1294 | 1347 | Qwen3.5-Flash |
| Neither model has a result on the other 25 boards here | |||
Image generationNot comparablePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index0 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B | Qwen3.5-Flash | 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 Nano 30B A3B costs less
Repository review
50K input + 3K output tokens
Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B costs less
Agent loop
200K input + 10K output tokens
Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B 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 Nano 30B A3B | Qwen3.5-Flash |
|---|---|---|
| Maker | NVIDIA | Qwen |
| Weights | Open weights | No public weights listed |
| Released | December 14, 2025 | February 25, 2026 |
| Context window | 262K | 1M |
| Input $/Mtok | $0.055 | $0.065 |
| Output $/Mtok | $0.22 | $0.26 |
| Coding index | Not benchmarked | 41.1 |
| Independent measurements behind it | 0 | 2 |
| Cost per solved task | Not computable | $0.40 |
| Source | OpenRouter listing | OpenRouter listing |
Questions
Is Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B better than Qwen3.5-Flash for coding?
Only Qwen3.5-Flash has a coding score, 41.1 on the Vibe Coding Index; Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B has none, so the two cannot be ranked on coding. Pick Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B for output tokens 1.2x cheaper ($0.22 vs $0.26 per million).
Which is cheaper, Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B or Qwen3.5-Flash?
Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B costs $0.055 per million input tokens and $0.22 per million output tokens; Qwen3.5-Flash costs $0.065 and $0.26. Cost per solved task is known for Qwen3.5-Flash only.
Which has the bigger context window, Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B or Qwen3.5-Flash?
Qwen3.5-Flash, with 1M tokens against 262K.
How many benchmarks is the Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B vs Qwen3.5-Flash comparison based on?
28 benchmarks have a result for both models as of October 23, 2026. Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B's coding index rests on 0 independent benchmarks and Qwen3.5-Flash's on 2. Where only one model has a result, the page says so instead of naming a winner.