Head-to-head comparison

Nemotron 3 Super vs Qwen3.5 4B

Nemotron 3 Super (NVIDIA) and Qwen3.5 4B (Qwen) 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 9 September 2026

As of 9 September 2026, Nemotron 3 Super holds the stronger ModelCap Index position (#107 vs #109); and Qwen3.5 4B ships open weights.

Which should you choose?

Choose Nemotron 3 Super if…

you want the stronger overall ModelCap Index position — #107 against #109 (38.9 vs 38.4 points).
you want provider choice — 1 listed API providers against 0.
AA Terminal-Bench 2.1 is your yardstick — 38.6% against 25.8%.
AA Humanity's Last Exam is your yardstick — 20.8% against 9.9%.
you want the more recently listed model — Nemotron 3 Super was listed 11 March 2026, Qwen3.5 4B 27 February 2026.

Choose Qwen3.5 4B if…

you want to self-host: Qwen3.5 4B ships open weights while Nemotron 3 Super is restricted license.
AA τ²-Bench Telecom is your yardstick — 92.1% against 67.8%.

Nemotron 3 Super vs Qwen3.5 4B: specs, pricing and context

Specification comparison of Nemotron 3 Super and Qwen3.5 4B
Field	Nemotron 3 SuperNVIDIA	Qwen3.5 4BQwen
ModelCap Index position	#107	#109
Index score	38.9	38.4
Evidence	Measured	Estimated
Input price / 1M tokens	$0.085	Unlisted
Output price / 1M tokens	$0.40	Unlisted
Context window	262K tokens	— tokens
Max output tokens	16K	—
API providers listed	1	0
Weight access	Restricted license	Open weights
Input modalities	Text	Text, Image
First listed	11 March 2026	27 February 2026
Publisher	NVIDIA	Qwen

Evidence: 3 public benchmark observations across 3 boards · publisher-corpus-prior over 182 held-out anchors (27%); launch card against 3 resolved peers on 10 rows (73%); exceeds every named peer on 2 of 10 rows; optimism haircut 0.6 from cross-lab-probe; shrunk 4.1 up toward the measured corpus. Prices are the lowest listed API offer per million tokens observed on the OpenRouter catalogue.

Benchmark scores: Nemotron 3 Super vs Qwen3.5 4B

Public benchmark boards where Nemotron 3 Super or Qwen3.5 4B has a published result
Board	Nemotron 3 Super	Qwen3.5 4B	Leads
Arena codingArena (LMArena)	14091395–1422	—	Only one result
AA Intelligence IndexArtificial Analysis	13.6intelligence-index:v4.3:reasoning-unspecified	—	Only one result
AA Terminal-Bench 2.1Artificial Analysis	38.6%terminal-bench:2.1:terminus-2:e2b:pass-at-1:3-repeats:source-model="Nemotron 3 Super":reasoning=true	25.8%terminal-bench:2.1:terminus-2:e2b:pass-at-1:3-repeats:source-model="Qwen3.5 4B":reasoning=true	Nemotron 3 Super
AA τ²-Bench TelecomArtificial Analysis	67.8%tau2:telecom:dual-control:pass-at-1:3-repeats:source-model="Nemotron 3 Super":reasoning=true	92.1%tau2:telecom:dual-control:pass-at-1:3-repeats:source-model="Qwen3.5 4B":reasoning=true	Qwen3.5 4B
AA Humanity's Last ExamArtificial Analysis	20.8%hle:may-2025:text-only-2158:no-tools:pass-at-1:source-model="Nemotron 3 Super":reasoning=true	9.9%hle:may-2025:text-only-2158:no-tools:pass-at-1:source-model="Qwen3.5 4B":reasoning=true	Nemotron 3 Super

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

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Nemotron 3 Super vs Qwen3.5 4B: common questions

Is Nemotron 3 Super better than Qwen3.5 4B?

Nemotron 3 Super ranks higher on the ModelCap Index as of 9 September 2026: #107 against #109. 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 Nemotron 3 Super cheaper than Qwen3.5 4B?

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, Nemotron 3 Super or Qwen3.5 4B?

Both publish a 262K-token context window.

Which is better for coding, Nemotron 3 Super or Qwen3.5 4B?

AA Terminal-Bench 2.1: Nemotron 3 Super 38.6%, Qwen3.5 4B 25.8% — Nemotron 3 Super leads.

Are Nemotron 3 Super and Qwen3.5 4B open-weight models?

Nemotron 3 Super: Restricted license. Qwen3.5 4B: Open weights. 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 Nemotron 3 Super and Qwen3.5 4B?

ModelCap currently lists 1 API provider for Nemotron 3 Super and 0 for Qwen3.5 4B, from the OpenRouter catalogue snapshot the site serves; each model page lists the providers and their prices.

How current is this Nemotron 3 Super vs Qwen3.5 4B comparison?

Every figure comes from the sealed ModelCap dataset published 9 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.