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Nemotron 3 Ultra vs Qwen3.6 35B A3B

Nemotron 3 Ultra leads Qwen3.6 35B A3B on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, 22.9 to 18.2, and Qwen3.6 35B A3B costs 2.4x less per output token ($1.00 vs $2.40 per million). Updated October 23, 2026; 17 benchmarks have a result for both.

Replace Nemotron 3 Ultra Replace Qwen3.6 35B A3B
Nemotron 3 UltraNVIDIA
Coding
30.0
Overall
53.1
Output $/M
$2.40
14
Qwen3.6 35B A3BQwen
Coding
No data
Overall
45.0
Output $/M
$1.00
2
vs boards won of 17 shared, 1 tied

Nemotron 3 Ultra or Qwen3.6 35B A3B: which to pick

Only Nemotron 3 Ultra has a coding score, 30.0 on the Vibe Coding Index; Qwen3.6 35B A3B has none, so the two cannot be ranked on coding.

Pick Qwen3.6 35B A3B for output tokens 2.4x cheaper ($1.00 vs $2.40 per million) and work measured by τ²-Bench Telecom or Mystery game puzzles, where it leads.

Model ANemotron 3 UltraNVIDIA30.0/1003 independent benchmarksNo cost per solved taskModel BQwen3.6 35B A3BQwenNot benchmarkedNo coding benchmarkNo cost per solved task
Shared results
17
Nemotron 3 Ultra only
54
Qwen3.6 35B A3B only
3
Like-for-like categories
6 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.

At a glance

Coding index
Nemotron 3 Ultra 30.0 from 3 benchmarks, Qwen3.6 35B A3B not benchmarked.
Widest category
General, 12.0 points apart on average over 4 shared benchmarks.
Widest single gap
IFBench: Nemotron 3 Ultra 81.4% against Qwen3.6 35B A3B 64.4%, 17.0 points apart on a 0 to 100 scale.
Output price
Nemotron 3 Ultra $2.40 against Qwen3.6 35B A3B $1.00 per million output tokens, 2.4x apart.
Context window
Both take 262K tokens.

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.

Boards won, where both have a result
CategoryNemotron 3 UltraBarsQwen3.6 35B A3BTies
Coding40
Intelligence20
Agentic work11
Reasoning31
Math001 tie
General40
All shared boards1421 tie
CodingLike-for-likeSix of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index40
Coding benchmarks for Nemotron 3 Ultra and Qwen3.6 35B A3B
BenchmarkNemotron 3 UltraQwen3.6 35B A3BLeader
AA Coding Index49.341.9Nemotron 3 Ultra
LiveCodeBench (Vals AI)86.0%Not measuredOnly Nemotron 3 Ultra measured
SWE-bench Verified (Vals AI)69.0%Not measuredOnly Nemotron 3 Ultra measured
Vibe Code Bench (Vals AI)7.6%Not measuredOnly Nemotron 3 Ultra measured
Code migration (Vals AI)4.9%Not measuredOnly Nemotron 3 Ultra measured
ProgramBench (Vals AI)0.0%Not measuredOnly Nemotron 3 Ultra measured
Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals AI)50.9%Not measuredOnly Nemotron 3 Ultra measured
SciCode40.3%36.6%Nemotron 3 Ultra
Terminal-Bench Hard (Artificial Analysis run)36.4%34.8%Nemotron 3 Ultra
Terminal-BenchNot measured24.6%Only Qwen3.6 35B A3B measured
FrontierCode13.6%Not measuredOnly Nemotron 3 Ultra measured
WeirdML43.5%34.5%Nemotron 3 Ultra
LMArena Text: coding1467Not measuredOnly Nemotron 3 Ultra measured
LMArena Text: software and IT1468Not measuredOnly Nemotron 3 Ultra measured
Neither model has a result on the other 29 boards here
IntelligenceLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index20
Intelligence benchmarks for Nemotron 3 Ultra and Qwen3.6 35B A3B
BenchmarkNemotron 3 UltraQwen3.6 35B A3BLeader
AA Intelligence Index22.918.2Nemotron 3 Ultra
Epoch Capabilities Index146.0143.7Nemotron 3 Ultra
Agentic workLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index11
Agentic work benchmarks for Nemotron 3 Ultra and Qwen3.6 35B A3B
BenchmarkNemotron 3 UltraQwen3.6 35B A3BLeader
AA Agentic Index20.113.1Nemotron 3 Ultra
Finance Agent (Vals AI)37.7%Not measuredOnly Nemotron 3 Ultra measured
Legal Research Bench (Vals AI)15.4%Not measuredOnly Nemotron 3 Ultra measured
Excel Modeling Benchmark (Vals AI)31.7%Not measuredOnly Nemotron 3 Ultra measured
τ²-Bench Telecom83.3%95.3%Qwen3.6 35B A3B
APEX-Agents22.7%Not measuredOnly Nemotron 3 Ultra measured
MCP Atlas63.1%Not measuredOnly Nemotron 3 Ultra measured
Neither model has a result on the other 35 boards here
ReasoningLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index31
Reasoning benchmarks for Nemotron 3 Ultra and Qwen3.6 35B A3B
BenchmarkNemotron 3 UltraQwen3.6 35B A3BLeader
GPQA Diamond86.1%Not measuredOnly Nemotron 3 Ultra measured
GPQA Diamond (Artificial Analysis run)86.7%84.1%Nemotron 3 Ultra
Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run)28.4%22.2%Nemotron 3 Ultra
GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI run)85.4%84.8%Nemotron 3 Ultra
Mystery game puzzles20.0%22.0%Qwen3.6 35B A3B
LMArena Text: hard prompts1452Not measuredOnly Nemotron 3 Ultra measured
LMArena Text: expert1472Not measuredOnly Nemotron 3 Ultra measured
LMArena Text: hard prompts in English1453Not measuredOnly Nemotron 3 Ultra measured
Neither model has a result on the other 15 boards here
MathLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index00
Math benchmarks for Nemotron 3 Ultra and Qwen3.6 35B A3B
BenchmarkNemotron 3 UltraQwen3.6 35B A3BLeader
OTIS Mock AIME86.7%86.7%Tie
FrontierMath, tiers 1 to 3Not measured20.4%Only Qwen3.6 35B A3B measured
ProofBench2.0%Not measuredOnly Nemotron 3 Ultra measured
LMArena Text: math1457Not measuredOnly Nemotron 3 Ultra measured
LMArena Text: mathematical work1462Not measuredOnly Nemotron 3 Ultra measured
Neither model has a result on the other 9 boards here
KnowledgeDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index9 boards, none shared
Knowledge benchmarks for Nemotron 3 Ultra and Qwen3.6 35B A3B
BenchmarkNemotron 3 UltraQwen3.6 35B A3BLeader
MMLU Pro85.8%Not measuredOnly Nemotron 3 Ultra measured
LegalBench (Vals AI)82.1%Not measuredOnly Nemotron 3 Ultra measured
CorpFin (Vals AI)65.5%Not measuredOnly Nemotron 3 Ultra measured
TaxEval (Vals AI)73.1%Not measuredOnly Nemotron 3 Ultra measured
MedCode (Vals AI)38.6%Not measuredOnly Nemotron 3 Ultra measured
LMArena Text: science1465Not measuredOnly Nemotron 3 Ultra measured
LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare1455Not measuredOnly Nemotron 3 Ultra measured
LMArena Text: legal and government1453Not measuredOnly Nemotron 3 Ultra measured
LMArena Text: business and finance1435Not measuredOnly Nemotron 3 Ultra measured
Neither model has a result on the other 11 boards here
Web designDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index8 boards, none shared
Web design benchmarks for Nemotron 3 Ultra and Qwen3.6 35B A3B
BenchmarkNemotron 3 UltraQwen3.6 35B A3BLeader
Design Arena: websites1145Not measuredOnly Nemotron 3 Ultra measured
Design Arena: UI components1135Not measuredOnly Nemotron 3 Ultra measured
Design Arena: game dev1138Not measuredOnly Nemotron 3 Ultra measured
Design Arena: data viz1142Not measuredOnly Nemotron 3 Ultra measured
Design Arena: 3D1132Not measuredOnly Nemotron 3 Ultra measured
Design Arena: all code categories1146Not measuredOnly Nemotron 3 Ultra measured
Design Arena: SVG1069Not measuredOnly Nemotron 3 Ultra measured
Design Arena: ASCII art1100Not measuredOnly Nemotron 3 Ultra measured
Neither model has a result on the other 1 board here
GeneralLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index40
General benchmarks for Nemotron 3 Ultra and Qwen3.6 35B A3B
BenchmarkNemotron 3 UltraQwen3.6 35B A3BLeader
IFBench81.4%64.4%Nemotron 3 Ultra
Long context reasoning (AA-LCR)79.3%71.7%Nemotron 3 Ultra
DTBench90.1%73.9%Nemotron 3 Ultra
LMCA36.9%29.7%Nemotron 3 Ultra
Surface Evolver BenchNot measured44.4%Only Qwen3.6 35B A3B measured
LMArena Text1445Not measuredOnly Nemotron 3 Ultra measured
LMArena Text: instruction following1418Not measuredOnly Nemotron 3 Ultra measured
LMArena Text: creative writing1398Not measuredOnly Nemotron 3 Ultra measured
LMArena Text: English1454Not measuredOnly Nemotron 3 Ultra measured
LMArena Text: non-English1427Not measuredOnly Nemotron 3 Ultra measured
LMArena Text: Chinese1498Not measuredOnly Nemotron 3 Ultra measured
LMArena Text: German1474Not measuredOnly Nemotron 3 Ultra measured
LMArena Text: Korean1385Not measuredOnly Nemotron 3 Ultra measured
LMArena Text: French1473Not measuredOnly Nemotron 3 Ultra measured
LMArena Text: Spanish1454Not measuredOnly Nemotron 3 Ultra measured
LMArena Text: Russian1417Not measuredOnly Nemotron 3 Ultra measured
LMArena Text: Polish1385Not measuredOnly Nemotron 3 Ultra measured
LMArena Text: multi-turn1411Not measuredOnly Nemotron 3 Ultra measured
LMArena Text: longer queries1437Not measuredOnly Nemotron 3 Ultra measured
LMArena Text: writing and language1405Not measuredOnly Nemotron 3 Ultra measured
LMArena Text: entertainment and media1397Not measuredOnly Nemotron 3 Ultra measured
Neither model has a result on the other 27 boards here
Image generationNot comparablePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index0 boards, none shared
Image generation benchmarks for Nemotron 3 Ultra and Qwen3.6 35B A3B
BenchmarkNemotron 3 UltraQwen3.6 35B A3BLeader
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 Ultra$0.0018Fits in one request
Qwen3.6 35B A3B$0.0006Fits in one request

Qwen3.6 35B A3B costs less

Repository review

50K input + 3K output tokens

Nemotron 3 Ultra$0.037Fits in one request
Qwen3.6 35B A3B$0.0080Fits in one request

Qwen3.6 35B A3B costs less

Agent loop

200K input + 10K output tokens

Nemotron 3 Ultra$0.144Fits in one request
Qwen3.6 35B A3B$0.030Fits in one request

Qwen3.6 35B 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.

Specifications of Nemotron 3 Ultra and Qwen3.6 35B A3B
SpecificationNVIDIA Nemotron 3 UltraQwen3.6 35B A3B
MakerNVIDIAQwen
WeightsOpen weightsOpen weights
ReleasedJune 4, 2026April 27, 2026
Context window262K262K
Input $/Mtok$0.60$0.10
Output $/Mtok$2.40$1.00
Coding index30.0Not benchmarked
Independent measurements behind it30
Cost per solved taskNot computableNot computable
SourceOpenRouter listingOpenRouter listing

Questions

Is Nemotron 3 Ultra better than Qwen3.6 35B A3B for coding?

Only Nemotron 3 Ultra has a coding score, 30.0 on the Vibe Coding Index; Qwen3.6 35B A3B has none, so the two cannot be ranked on coding. Pick Qwen3.6 35B A3B for output tokens 2.4x cheaper ($1.00 vs $2.40 per million) and work measured by τ²-Bench Telecom or Mystery game puzzles, where it leads.

Which is cheaper, Nemotron 3 Ultra or Qwen3.6 35B A3B?

Nemotron 3 Ultra costs $0.60 per million input tokens and $2.40 per million output tokens; Qwen3.6 35B A3B costs $0.10 and $1.00. Cost per solved task is known for neither of them.

Which has the bigger context window, Nemotron 3 Ultra or Qwen3.6 35B A3B?

Neither: both take 262K tokens.

How many benchmarks is the Nemotron 3 Ultra vs Qwen3.6 35B A3B comparison based on?

17 benchmarks have a result for both models as of October 23, 2026. Nemotron 3 Ultra's coding index rests on 3 independent benchmarks and Qwen3.6 35B A3B's on 0. Where only one model has a result, the page says so instead of naming a winner.

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