Gemini 3.7 Flash vs Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (30B A3B): Specs & Benchmark Comparison
Gemini 3.7 Flash is developed by Google, while Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (30B A3B) comes from NVIDIA. Both were released 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 3.7 Flash.
We have 4 benchmark results for Gemini 3.7 Flash and 4 benchmark results for Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (30B A3B), but they were measured on different benchmarks, so there is no like-for-like scoreboard.
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 15 times cheaper than Gemini 3.7 Flash at $0.75 and $3.75. Gemini 3.7 Flash takes the larger context window at 1M tokens, compared with 262K for Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (30B A3B). Gemini 3.7 Flash accepts text and images as input, while Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (30B A3B) accepts text.
| Characteristic | Gemini 3.7 Flash | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (30B A3B) |
|---|---|---|
| Company | NVIDIA | |
| Release Date | August 13, 2026 | August 11, 2026 |
| Parameters | — | 30B |
| Multimodal | Yes | No |
| Context (input) | 1.0M | 262K |
| Context (output) | 66K | 262K |
| Input Price / 1M | $0.75 | $0.05 |
| Output Price / 1M | $3.75 | $0.20 |
| Average Score | 79.6% | 78.5% |
Verdict
Both models show equal results — the choice depends on your specific use case.
Both models show comparable average scores: Gemini 3.7 Flash — 0.8, Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (30B A3B) — 0.8.
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (30B A3B) is 18.0x cheaper: input $0.05/1M vs $0.75/1M tokens.
Gemini 3.7 Flash supports a larger context: 1M vs 262K tokens.
Both models were released around the same time: 8/13/2026 and 8/11/2026.
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