Nemotron 3 Ultra (550B A55B) vs Qwen3.6-35B-A3B

Comparison

As of August 25, 2026, Qwen3.6-35B-A3B is 58% cheaper per million tokens than Nemotron 3 Ultra (550B A55B). Nemotron 3 Ultra (550B A55B) is $0.50 / $2.20 per million input/output tokens versus Qwen3.6-35B-A3B at $0.14 / $1.00. Source: https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/models

Source: OpenRouter pricing (https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/models)

Nemotron 3 Ultra (550B A55B)

NVIDIA

$2.70blended / 1M

Input

$0.50

Output

$2.20

1M ctx|Open Source

58%

cheaper

Better value

Qwen3.6-35B-A3B

Qwen

$1.14blended / 1M

Input

$0.14

Output

$1.00

262.1K ctx|Open Source

Save $1.56 per million tokens by choosing Qwen3.6-35B-A3B over Nemotron 3 Ultra (550B A55B).

Nemotron 3 Ultra (550B A55B) vs Qwen3.6-35B-A3B comparison

Token pricing, specs, and benchmarks side by side

Shared benchmarks

Each bar is share of the current leader on that eval. Click a row to open the board.

Nemotron 3 Ultra (550B A55B)Qwen3.6-35B-A3B

Score vs price

SWE-bench Verified. Left is cheaper. Up is a higher score. The line is the best score you can buy at each price.

Best score at each priceNemotron 3 Ultra (550B A55B)Qwen3.6-35B-A3B

Metric

Nemotron 3 Ultra (550B A55B)

Qwen3.6-35B-A3B

Provider

NVIDIA

Qwen

License

Open Source

Release Date

2026-06-04

2026-04-16

Pricing (per 1M tokens)

Input Price+257%

$0.50

$0.14

Output Price+120%

$2.20

$1.00

Blended (1M + 1M)

$2.70

$1.14

Model Details

Context Window

262.1K

Max Output Tokens

N/A

Knowledge Cutoff

2025-09-30

N/A

Throughput

N/A

Benchmarks

HLE

37.4%

21.4%

GPQA

87%

86%

GPQA Diamond

86.1%

83.8%

SWE-bench Verified

70.7%

73.4%

LiveCodeBench

86.0%

—

LiveCodeBench v6

89%

80.4%

SciCode

44.6%

35.8%

Arena Code Elo

—

1249.48

Vibe Code Bench

7.6%

—

BrowseComp

44.4%

—

IFBench

81.7%

—

AA-LCR

65.4%

—

FinanceAgent v2

37.5%

—

SWE-bench Multilingual

67.7%

67.2%

Terminal-Bench

—

24.6%

Terminal-Bench 2.0

—

51.5%

Terminal-Bench 2.1

56.4%

—

ToolAthlon

—

26.9%

MCP Atlas

—

62.8%

MMMU-Pro

—

75.3%

CharXiv-R

—

78%

GDPval

46.7%

—

FinanceAgent v1.1

53.7%

—

AIME 2025

—

86.7%

MMMU

—

81.7%

Ai2d

—

92.7%

Aime 2026

—

92.7%

Apex

84.8%

—

C Eval

—

90%

Cc Ocr

—

81.9%

Claw Eval

—

50%

Code Migration

4.9%

—

CorpFin v2

65.5%

—

CritPt

3.1%

0.3%

Deep Planning

—

25.9%

EMB

31.7%

—

Embspatialbench

—

84.3%

Finance Agent

53.7%

—

Hallusion Bench

—

69.8%

HMMT 2025

—

90.7%

Hmmt Feb 26

—

83.6%

Hmmt25

—

89.1%

Imo Answerbench

92.3%

78.9%

Longbench V2

61.9%

—

LVBench

—

71.4%

Mathvista Mini

—

86.4%

Mcp Mark

—

37%

MedCode

38.6%

—

Mlvu

—

86.2%

Mmbench V1 1

—

92.8%

MMLU-Pro

86.8%

85.2%

Mmlu Prox

83%

—

MMLU-Redux

—

93.3%

Multichallenge

63.8%

—

Mvbench

—

74.6%

Nl2repo

—

29.4%

Odinw

—

50.8%

Omnidocbench 1 5

—

89.9%

Omniscience

78.7%

—

Pinchbench

90%

—

Profbench

56%

—

ProofBench

—

Realworldqa

—

85.3%

Refcoco Avg

—

92%

Refspatialbench

—

64.3%

Ruler

94.7%

—

Simplevqa

—

58.9%

SkillsBench

—

28.7%

SuperGPQA

—

64.7%

SWE-bench Pro

—

49.5%

Tau3 Bench

22.6%

67.2%

Tax Eval v2

73.1%

—

Terminal-Bench 2

—

51.5%

Videomme W O Sub

—

82.5%

Videomme W Sub

—

86.6%

VideoMMMU

—

83.7%

Vita Bench

—

35.6%

Widesearch

—

60.1%

Wmt24

83.7%

—

Zclawbench

—

52.6%

Zerobench Sub

—

34.4%

Benchmark Wins

Nemotron 3 Ultra (550B A55B) 9|2 Qwen3.6-35B-A3B

Verdict

Nemotron 3 Ultra (550B A55B) vs Qwen3.6-35B-A3B: the bottom line

Qwen3.6-35B-A3B offers significantly lower pricing, while Nemotron 3 Ultra (550B A55B) leads on benchmark performance. Your choice depends on whether cost efficiency or raw capability matters more for your use case.

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Nemotron 3 Ultra (550B A55B) vs Qwen3.6-35B-A3B FAQ

Which is cheaper, Nemotron 3 Ultra (550B A55B) or Qwen3.6-35B-A3B?

As of August 25, 2026, Qwen3.6-35B-A3B is 58% cheaper on blended LLM API pricing. Qwen3.6-35B-A3B costs $0.14 per million input tokens and $1.00 per million output tokens ($1.14 blended 1M-in + 1M-out). Nemotron 3 Ultra (550B A55B) costs $0.50 / $2.20 per million tokens ($2.70 blended). Sources: https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/models and https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/models. The cheapest LLM for your app still depends on how many output tokens you generate.

How much does Nemotron 3 Ultra (550B A55B) vs Qwen3.6-35B-A3B cost per million tokens?

Nemotron 3 Ultra (550B A55B) OpenRouter API pricing is $0.50 input and $2.20 output per million tokens via OpenRouter. Qwen3.6-35B-A3B OpenRouter API pricing is $0.14 input and $1.00 output per million tokens via OpenRouter. Use those four numbers, not ChatGPT Plus or Claude Pro subscription prices, when you are comparing APIs.

Which is better for coding, Nemotron 3 Ultra (550B A55B) or Qwen3.6-35B-A3B?

Qwen3.6-35B-A3B leads on SWE-bench Verified: Nemotron 3 Ultra (550B A55B) at 70.7% vs Qwen3.6-35B-A3B at 73.4%. SWE-bench measures real GitHub fixes; LiveCodeBench measures contest programming.

What is the context window for Nemotron 3 Ultra (550B A55B) vs Qwen3.6-35B-A3B?

Nemotron 3 Ultra (550B A55B) supports a 1M token context window, while Qwen3.6-35B-A3B supports 262K tokens. Nemotron 3 Ultra (550B A55B) offers a larger context window. Filling a larger window bills more input tokens, so the cheaper-per-million model can still cost more on long documents.

Which model performs better on benchmarks, Nemotron 3 Ultra (550B A55B) or Qwen3.6-35B-A3B?

Nemotron 3 Ultra (550B A55B) leads on 9 of 11 shared benchmarks versus Qwen3.6-35B-A3B's 2 wins. Check the comparison table for GPQA Diamond, SWE-bench, MMLU, HLE, and the other evals we track. Token price and benchmark score together are the usual LLM comparison, not either number alone.

Is Nemotron 3 Ultra (550B A55B) or Qwen3.6-35B-A3B better for production use?

Both Nemotron 3 Ultra (550B A55B) and Qwen3.6-35B-A3B are production API models. For cost-sensitive production traffic, Qwen3.6-35B-A3B has better economics on the blended 1M-in + 1M-out scale. For maximum capability, weight the benchmark table for your domain. Many production stacks route cheap models for drafts and a frontier model for the hard turn, which is usually cheaper than sending everything to the expensive API.

Can I switch between Nemotron 3 Ultra (550B A55B) and Qwen3.6-35B-A3B in my app?

Yes. Call Nemotron 3 Ultra (550B A55B) through OpenRouter and Qwen3.6-35B-A3B through OpenRouter with separate API keys, or through a gateway that already wraps both. Keep prompts in tokens, not characters, when you estimate the invoice. AnotherWrapper templates can swap providers without rewriting auth and billing.

How accurate is this Nemotron 3 Ultra (550B A55B) vs Qwen3.6-35B-A3B pricing data?

List rates are the latest published OpenRouter API pricing and OpenRouter API pricing, quoted per million tokens. Official rate sheets: https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/models and https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/models. Prompt caching, batch APIs, and committed-use discounts can change the invoice. Benchmark scores are from official publications and independent evals, updated as new numbers land.

What is the output token limit for Nemotron 3 Ultra (550B A55B) and Qwen3.6-35B-A3B?

Nemotron 3 Ultra (550B A55B) supports up to an unspecified number of output tokens per request, while Qwen3.6-35B-A3B supports up to an unspecified number of output tokens. Output tokens are usually the expensive half of API pricing, so a higher max output cap is a capability, not a discount.

Which model has better throughput, Nemotron 3 Ultra (550B A55B) or Qwen3.6-35B-A3B?

Neither Nemotron 3 Ultra (550B A55B) nor Qwen3.6-35B-A3B has published throughput data on this page yet. Throughput (tokens per second) and time-to-first-token are why two models with the same per-million-token price can still feel different in chat and agents.

How do I switch the models in this Nemotron 3 Ultra (550B A55B) vs Qwen3.6-35B-A3B comparison?

Use the model pickers at the top of this LLM comparison. Search any model in the index and the URL updates. Open Nemotron 3 Ultra (550B A55B) or Qwen3.6-35B-A3B from the sidebar for the single-model API pricing page, or go back to the LLM pricing table to sort by cheapest blended cost.

Nemotron 3 Ultra (550B A55B) vs Qwen3.6-35B-A3B pricing

This comparison covers API pricing, context window, throughput, and benchmark scores. Nemotron 3 Ultra (550B A55B) costs $0.50/M input and $2.20/M output via OpenRouter. Qwen3.6-35B-A3B costs $0.14/M input and $1.00/M output via OpenRouter.