Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (30B A3B) vs Qwen3.7 Max: Specs & Benchmark Comparison
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (30B A3B) is developed by NVIDIA, while Qwen3.7 Max comes from Alibaba. Qwen3.7 Max was released in May 2026, and Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (30B A3B) followed 3 months later in August 2026. Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (30B A3B) has a published size of about 30 billion parameters; Alibaba has not disclosed the parameter count of Qwen3.7 Max.
The two models share 7 published benchmarks. Qwen3.7 Max leads on 7 of them. The widest gaps are on SWE-bench Multilingual, where Qwen3.7 Max scores 78.3% against 39.3%; Humanity's Last Exam, where Qwen3.7 Max scores 41.4% against 11.7%. Averaged across everything we track, Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (30B A3B) sits at 45.3% and Qwen3.7 Max at 73.6%.
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 50 times cheaper than Qwen3.7 Max at $2.50 and $7.50. Qwen3.7 Max takes the larger context window at 1M tokens, compared with 262K for Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (30B A3B).
| Characteristic | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (30B A3B) | Qwen3.7 Max |
|---|---|---|
| Company | NVIDIA | Alibaba |
| Release Date | August 11, 2026 | May 19, 2026 |
| Parameters | 30B | — |
| Multimodal | No | No |
| Context (input) | 262K | 1.0M |
| Context (output) | 262K | 66K |
| Input Price / 1M | $0.05 | $2.50 |
| Output Price / 1M | $0.20 | $7.50 |
| Average Score | 45.3% | 73.6% |
| Benchmarks | ||
| SWE-bench Multilingual | 39.3% | 78.3% |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 11.7% | 41.4% |
| SWE-Bench Verified | 51.6% | 80.4% |
| SciCode | 32.6% | 53.5% |
| GPQA | 75.0% | 92.4% |
| MMLU-Pro | 82.0% | 89.6% |
| IFBench | 72.0% | 79.1% |
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Verdict
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (30B A3B) leads in 2 out of 5 comparison categories.
Both models show comparable average scores: Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (30B A3B) — 0.5, Qwen3.7 Max — 0.7.
On SWE-Bench, both models are nearly equal: Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (30B A3B) — 0.5, Qwen3.7 Max — 0.8.
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (30B A3B) is 40.0x cheaper: input $0.05/1M vs $2.50/1M tokens.
Qwen3.7 Max supports a larger context: 1M vs 262K tokens.
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (30B A3B) is newer: released 8/11/2026 vs 5/19/2026.
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