Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite vs Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (30B A3B): Specs & Benchmark Comparison
Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite is developed by Google, while Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (30B A3B) comes from NVIDIA. Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite was released in July 2026, and Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (30B A3B) followed a month 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 3.5 Flash-Lite.
We have 6 benchmark results for Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite and 13 benchmark results for Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (30B A3B), but they overlap on a single test: Terminal-Bench 2.1, where Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite scores 54.0% against 24.6%.
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 6 times cheaper than Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite at $0.30 and $2.50. Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite takes the larger context window at 1M tokens, compared with 262K for Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (30B A3B). Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite accepts text and images as input, while Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (30B A3B) accepts text.
| Characteristic | Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (30B A3B) |
|---|---|---|
| Company | NVIDIA | |
| Release Date | July 21, 2026 | August 11, 2026 |
| Parameters | — | 30B |
| Multimodal | Yes | No |
| Context (input) | 1.0M | 262K |
| Context (output) | 66K | 262K |
| Input Price / 1M | $0.30 | $0.05 |
| Output Price / 1M | $2.50 | $0.20 |
| Average Score | 53.2% | 45.3% |
| Benchmarks | ||
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 54.0% | 24.6% |
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Verdict
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (30B A3B) leads in 2 out of 4 comparison categories.
Both models show comparable average scores: Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite — 0.5, Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (30B A3B) — 0.5.
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (30B A3B) is 11.2x cheaper: input $0.05/1M vs $0.30/1M tokens.
Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite supports a larger context: 1M vs 262K tokens.
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (30B A3B) is newer: released 8/11/2026 vs 7/21/2026.
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