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Decision facts

• Nemotron 3.5 Lightning is #89; Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507 is #88 on the same current language board.
• Index scores are 44.9 for Nemotron 3.5 Lightning and 45.3 for Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507. Their published uncertainty intervals overlap, so the rank difference alone does not establish a reliable capability advantage for your workload.
• Both positions use Measured evidence.
• Listed output price per 1M tokens is $0.20 for Nemotron 3.5 Lightning and $0.19 for Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507. For 1,000 requests with 2,000 input and 500 output tokens each (2M input + 0.5M output), the listed-rate estimate is $0.26 for Nemotron 3.5 Lightning versus $0.19 for Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507. Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507 costs 25.8% less in this scenario. This excludes caching, batch discounts, prompt-length tiers, tool charges and retries; verify the selected endpoint before budgeting.
• Published context is 262,144 tokens for Nemotron 3.5 Lightning and 262,144 for Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507.
• Weight access differs: Nemotron 3.5 Lightning is restricted; Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507 is open.
• ModelCap currently lists 2 providers for Nemotron 3.5 Lightning and 4 for Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507.

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