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Gemma SEA Guard 12B 2602 vs Nemotron 3.5 Lightning

Gemma SEA Guard 12B 2602 (Aisingapore) and Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (NVIDIA) compared on the ModelCap Index, API price, context window, provider availability, weight access and every public benchmark board they share. Figures are the same ones shown on the live rankings; nothing here is a hidden score.

Snapshot as of 15 September 2026

As of 15 September 2026, Nemotron 3.5 Lightning holds the stronger ModelCap Index position (#150 vs #151).

Which should you choose?

Choose Gemma SEA Guard 12B 2602 if…

  • ModelCap publishes no field on which Gemma SEA Guard 12B 2602 leads Nemotron 3.5 Lightning for this pair.

Choose Nemotron 3.5 Lightning if…

  • you want the stronger overall ModelCap Index position — #150 against #151 (30.2 vs 29.5 points).
  • you want provider choice — 4 listed API providers against 0.
  • you want the more recently listed model — Nemotron 3.5 Lightning was listed 11 August 2026, Gemma SEA Guard 12B 2602 4 December 2025.

Gemma SEA Guard 12B 2602 vs Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: specs, pricing and context

Specification comparison of Gemma SEA Guard 12B 2602 and Nemotron 3.5 Lightning
FieldGemma SEA Guard 12B 2602AisingaporeNemotron 3.5 LightningNVIDIA
ModelCap Index position#151#150
Index score29.530.2
EvidenceInheritedEstimated
Input price / 1M tokensUnlisted$0.08
Output price / 1M tokensUnlisted$0.20
Context window— tokens262K tokens
Max output tokens—131K
API providers listed04
Weight accessRestricted licenseRestricted license
Input modalitiesText, ImageText
First listed4 December 202511 August 2026
PublisherAisingaporeNVIDIA

Evidence: finetune of google/gemma-3-12b-it · finetune (100%) · publisher-corpus-prior over 176 held-out anchors (25%); launch card against 3 resolved peers on 11 rows (75%); optimism haircut 2.8 from cross-lab-probe; shrunk 1.2 up toward the measured corpus. Prices are the lowest listed API offer per million tokens observed on the OpenRouter catalogue.

Benchmark scores: Gemma SEA Guard 12B 2602 vs Nemotron 3.5 Lightning

Public benchmark boards where Gemma SEA Guard 12B 2602 or Nemotron 3.5 Lightning has a published result
BoardGemma SEA Guard 12B 2602Nemotron 3.5 LightningLeads
AA Intelligence IndexArtificial Analysis—13.6intelligence-index:v4.3:reasoning-unspecifiedOnly one result
AA Terminal-Bench 2.1Artificial Analysis—24.3%terminal-bench:2.1:terminus-2:e2b:pass-at-1:3-repeats:source-model="Nemotron 3.5 Lightning":reasoning=trueOnly one result
AA Humanity's Last ExamArtificial Analysis—10.6%hle:may-2025:text-only-2158:no-tools:pass-at-1:source-model="Nemotron 3.5 Lightning":reasoning=trueOnly one result

Scores are the sources' own published figures for each model's best evaluated configuration; ModelCap never re-runs a benchmark.

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Gemma SEA Guard 12B 2602 vs Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: common questions

Is Gemma SEA Guard 12B 2602 better than Nemotron 3.5 Lightning?

Nemotron 3.5 Lightning ranks higher on the ModelCap Index as of 15 September 2026: #150 against #151. That is a capability ranking built from public benchmark evidence with published uncertainty; whether it is "better" for you also depends on price, context and where you can run it. Their published uncertainty intervals overlap, so the rank difference alone does not establish a reliable capability advantage for your workload.

Is Gemma SEA Guard 12B 2602 cheaper than Nemotron 3.5 Lightning?

At least one of the two has no listed API price on ModelCap right now, so no price comparison is made.

Which has the bigger context window, Gemma SEA Guard 12B 2602 or Nemotron 3.5 Lightning?

Both publish a —-token context window.

Which is better for coding, Gemma SEA Guard 12B 2602 or Nemotron 3.5 Lightning?

The two models do not share a coding benchmark board on ModelCap yet, so no head-to-head coding score is published; the ModelCap Index position is the closest overall signal.

Are Gemma SEA Guard 12B 2602 and Nemotron 3.5 Lightning open-weight models?

Gemma SEA Guard 12B 2602: Restricted license. Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: Restricted license. Open weights mean the checkpoint can be downloaded and self-hosted under its licence; API-only models are available solely through hosted endpoints.

Where can I run Gemma SEA Guard 12B 2602 and Nemotron 3.5 Lightning?

ModelCap currently lists 0 API providers for Gemma SEA Guard 12B 2602 and 4 for Nemotron 3.5 Lightning, from the OpenRouter catalogue snapshot the site serves; each model page lists the providers and their prices.

How current is this Gemma SEA Guard 12B 2602 vs Nemotron 3.5 Lightning comparison?

Every figure comes from the sealed ModelCap dataset published 15 September 2026; the page re-renders within a minute of each data refresh, and the ModelCap Index positions are the same ones shown on the live rankings.

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