Battle of the Models

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Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B

A-TIER

NVIDIA NIM

Intelligence Score 85/100

Model Popularity 0 votes

Context Window 1M Context

Pricing Model Free / Open

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Hetzner Inference API

Intelligence Score 65/100

Context Window 262K

Pricing Model Free / Open

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FINAL VERDICT

With an intelligence score of 85/100 vs 65/100, Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B outperforms Qwen3.6 35B A3B by 20 points.

Clear Winner: Significant performance advantage for Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B.

HEAD-TO-HEAD

Feature	Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B	Qwen3.6 35B A3B
Context Window	1M Context	262K
Architecture	Transformer	Transformer (Open Weight)
Est. MMLU Score	~80-84%	~60-64%
Release Date	2024	2024
Pricing Model	Free Tier	Free Tier
Rate Limit (RPM)	~40 RPM (varies per model, not published)	10 requests, 4M input / 100K output tokens per 60s (per API key)
Daily Limit	-	No daily cap published (free while the API is experimental)
Capabilities	No specific data	Vision Reasoning
Performance Tier	A-Tier (Excellent)	C-Tier (Good)
Speed Estimate	Medium	Medium
Primary Use Case	General Purpose	General Purpose
Model Size	30B	35B
Limitations	Phone number verification required Free credits are limited Rate limits on free tier	Experimental — no SLA, could be discontinued or paywalled at any time Only one model currently offered No official uptime/support guarantees
Key Strengths	High performance models	OpenAI-compatible endpoint — swap base_url + key EU data residency MoE model with 262K context and image input