Gemini 3 Flash vs Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (30B A3B): Specs & Benchmark Comparison
Gemini 3 Flash is developed by Google, while Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (30B A3B) comes from NVIDIA. Gemini 3 Flash was released in December 2025, and Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (30B A3B) followed 8 months later in August 2026. Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (30B A3B) has a published size of about 30 billion parameters; Google has not disclosed the parameter count of Gemini 3 Flash.
The two models share 3 published benchmarks. Gemini 3 Flash leads on 3 of them. The widest gaps are on Humanity's Last Exam, where Gemini 3 Flash scores 43.5% against 11.7%; SWE-Bench Verified, where Gemini 3 Flash scores 78.0% against 51.6%. Averaged across everything we track, Gemini 3 Flash sits at 63.0% and Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (30B A3B) at 45.3%.
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (30B A3B) is the cheaper API at $0.05 per million input tokens and $0.20 per million output tokens, roughly 10 times cheaper than Gemini 3 Flash at $0.50 and $3. Gemini 3 Flash takes the larger context window at 1M tokens, compared with 262K for Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (30B A3B). Gemini 3 Flash accepts text, images, audio, and video as input, while Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (30B A3B) accepts text.
| Characteristic | Gemini 3 Flash | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (30B A3B) |
|---|---|---|
| Company | NVIDIA | |
| Release Date | December 16, 2025 | August 11, 2026 |
| Parameters | — | 30B |
| Multimodal | Yes | No |
| Context (input) | 1.0M | 262K |
| Context (output) | 66K | 262K |
| Input Price / 1M | $0.50 | $0.05 |
| Output Price / 1M | $3.00 | $0.20 |
| Average Score | 63.0% | 45.3% |
| Benchmarks | ||
| Humanity's Last Exam | 43.5% | 11.7% |
| SWE-Bench Verified | 78.0% | 51.6% |
| GPQA | 90.0% | 75.0% |
Visual Benchmark Comparison
Verdict
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (30B A3B) leads in 2 out of 5 comparison categories.
Both models show comparable average scores: Gemini 3 Flash — 0.6, Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (30B A3B) — 0.5.
On SWE-Bench, both models are nearly equal: Gemini 3 Flash — 0.8, Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (30B A3B) — 0.5.
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (30B A3B) is 14.0x cheaper: input $0.05/1M vs $0.50/1M tokens.
Gemini 3 Flash supports a larger context: 1M vs 262K tokens.
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (30B A3B) is newer: released 8/11/2026 vs 12/16/2025.
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