Nemotron 3.5 Lightning vs Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct

Nemotron 3.5 Lightning vs Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct. A reliable intelligence-versus-cost verdict requires both models' intelligence scores and benchmark-run costs. Missing data is not a performance verdict.

NVIDIANemotron 3.5 LightningOff the frontier
Intelligence
12.90
Total cost
$99.0
AlibabaQwen3 VL 235B A22B InstructNot ranked · benchmark data missing
Intelligence
9.90
Total cost
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Verdict

Comparison incomplete

A reliable intelligence-versus-cost verdict requires both models' intelligence scores and benchmark-run costs. Missing data is not a performance verdict.

MetricNemotron 3.5 LightningQwen3 VL 235B A22B InstructDifference
Intelligence (higher is better)12.99.9−23.3% Qwen3 VL 235B A22B In… is 23.3% less intelligent
Total AA cost (lower is better)$99.03Not reported— not comparable
End-to-end time (lower is better)8.23s11.56s+40.5% Qwen3 VL 235B A22B In… is 40.5% slower
Price per 1M tokens (in / out)$0.06 / $0.20$0.21 / $1.39
Input modalitiesTextText, Image
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