NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-BF16: benchmark scores, price and ranking
NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-BF16 from nvidia ranks #114 of 743 LLMs on the LLMs Tiger aggregate benchmark score (51.5), based on 2 benchmark results captured up to 2026-10-13.
- Organisation
- nvidia
- Type
- Open-weight / local model
- Open weights
- Yes
- Aggregate rank
- #114 of 743 (score 51.5)
Across the 2 benchmarks where at least ten models are scored, NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-BF16 is in the top 10% on 0 and in the top half on 2.
NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-BF16 benchmark results
| Benchmark | Score | Rank | Source | Captured |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MMLU-Pro | 81.9% | #26 of 136 | HuggingFace MMLU-Pro leaderboard | 2026-10-13 |
| GPQA Diamond | 75.4% | #129 of 275 | HuggingFace GPQA Diamond leaderboard | 2026-10-13 |
About NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-BF16
NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-BF16 is an open-weight model that can run on your own hardware from nvidia. No API price is listed for it yet. We hold 2 benchmark results for it across 1 area, and none is in the top tenth of its board.
Where NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-BF16 stands
On our aggregate score, NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-BF16 is #114 of 743 ranked models, in the top quarter. Its score is 51.5; the scale is centred on 50, so it sits 1.5 points above the typical model. That beats 85% of the ranked field. Among the 9 ranked nvidia models it is #4. The next one up is NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Super-120B-A12B-BF16 at 52.0. The next one down is NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-NVFP4 at 51.5.
NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-BF16, benchmark by benchmark
MMLU-Pro puts NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-BF16 at 81.9%, #26 of 136. That beats 81% of the models tested, but 6.2 points short of Darwin-180B-RSI (88.1%). The results either side are MiniMax-M2 (82.0%) and NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-NVFP4 (81.6%). It covers 57-subject knowledge + reasoning. The board median is 55.3%, so NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-BF16 is 26.7 points above it. Source: HuggingFace MMLU-Pro leaderboard, captured 2026-10-13.
On GPQA Diamond, NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-BF16 reaches 75.4%. It ranks #129 of 275, ahead of 53% of the field, and 20.3 points behind GPT-6 Astra (max) at 95.8%. The results either side are grok-3-mini-beta (high) (75.5%) and glm-4.7-flash (75.2%). It covers expert-level science questions. The board median is 71.7%, so NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-BF16 is 3.7 points above it. Source: HuggingFace GPQA Diamond leaderboard, captured 2026-10-13.
Strengths and weaknesses
Reasoning, maths and science: solid, ahead of 67% of the field on average across 2 benchmarks. Its best board here is MMLU-Pro (#26 of 136) and its weakest is GPQA Diamond (#129 of 275).
Reading these numbers
The 2 scores on this page come from 2 sources: HuggingFace GPQA Diamond leaderboard (1), HuggingFace MMLU-Pro leaderboard (1). No official leaderboard supplied any of them, so treat them as third-party measurements. With 2 results the aggregate rank can move a lot when one new score arrives.
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