NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3b Nvfp4 vs Granite 4.1 8B
NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3b Nvfp4 is from NVIDIA, released August 11, 2026. Granite 4.1 8B is from IBM, released April 29, 2026.
- LMArena Elo1349 vs 1304. NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3b Nvfp4 is 3.5% ahead on LMArena Elo.
- Context window1M vs 131k. NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3b Nvfp4 takes 663% more context in one request.
Prices are the vendors’ published API rates; Elo is LMArena’s text board. Each figure is dated on its model page.
Interactive Comparison
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Open weights — free to self-host | $0.05 / $0.10 per million tokens | |
|---|---|---|
| Identity | ||
| Developer | NVIDIA | IBM |
| Released | Aug 2026 | Apr 2026 |
| Status | Open weights | — |
| Licence | OpenMDW-1.1 | Apache 2.0 |
| Self-hostable | Yes — weights at nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-NVFP4 on Hugging Face | Yes |
| Cost | ||
| Blended $/1M tokensinput × 0.75 + output × 0.25 | — | $0.063 / 1M tokens |
| Input price | — | $0.050 / 1M tokens |
| Output price | — | $0.100 / 1M tokens |
| Capacity | ||
| Context window | 1M tokens | 131.1K tokens |
| Measured quality | ||
| LMArena Elo | 1349 (checked Oct 2026) | 1304 (checked Oct 2026) |
| LMArena rank | Rank 215 | Rank 281 |
| Elo per dollarLMArena Elo ÷ blended $/1M tokens | — | 20864 |
