NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning is an open mixture-of-experts model from NVIDIA, with 3B active parameters out of 30B total. It is suited for high-throughput agentic workloads and specialized tasks that...
Model details →NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Lightning vs Qwen: Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking
NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Lightning wins on 2 of 6 axes — pricing and capability skew in its favour for most workloads.
Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking is a reasoning-first chat model in the Qwen3-Next line that outputs structured “thinking” traces by default. It’s designed for hard multi-step problems; math proofs, code synthesis/debugging, logic, and agentic..…
Model details →Side-by-side comparison
| Capability | NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Lightning | Qwen: Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking | Winner |
|---|---|---|---|
| Context window Maximum number of input tokens the model can attend to in a single request. | 262K | 262K | Tie |
| Input price (per 1M) Cost per million input tokens billed by the provider. | $0.10 | $0.15 | 🏆 NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Lightning |
| Output price (per 1M) Cost per million output tokens billed by the provider. | $0.25 | $1.20 | 🏆 NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Lightning |
| Tool / function calling First-class support for emitting structured tool calls. | — | Yes | 🏆 Qwen: Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking |
| Vision input Accepts image inputs alongside text. | — | — | Tie |
| Reasoning mode Internal chain-of-thought / extended-thinking support. | Yes | Yes | Tie |
Frequently asked questions
Is NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Lightning better than Qwen: Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking?
NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Lightning wins on 2 of 6 axes — pricing and capability skew in its favour for most workloads.
What's the price difference between NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Lightning and Qwen: Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking?
Input: $0.10 vs $0.15 per 1M tokens. Output: $0.25 vs $1.20 per 1M tokens.
What context windows do NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Lightning and Qwen: Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking support?
NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Lightning supports up to 262K tokens. Qwen: Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking supports up to 262K tokens.
Do both NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Lightning and Qwen: Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking support tool calling?
NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: not advertised. Qwen: Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking: yes.