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Decision facts

• Nemotron 3.5 Lightning is #87; Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct is #88 on the same current language board.
• Index scores are 55.6 for Nemotron 3.5 Lightning and 55.4 for Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct. 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 $1.10 for Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct. For 1,000 requests with 2,000 input and 500 output tokens each (2M input + 0.5M output), the listed-rate estimate is $0.24 for Nemotron 3.5 Lightning versus $0.73 for Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct. Nemotron 3.5 Lightning costs 67.1% 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 Next 80B A3B Instruct.
• Weight access differs: Nemotron 3.5 Lightning is restricted; Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct is open.
• ModelCap currently lists 4 providers for Nemotron 3.5 Lightning and 5 for Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct.

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