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Claude Opus 4.8vsNVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B NVFP4

Claude Opus 4.8 leads 6 of 6 shared benchmarks. Both offer a 1M-token context window.

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Shared benchmarks
6 – 0
Claude Opus 4.8 leads
Cheaper per token
list price, input + output
Larger context
Tie
both 1M tokens
Provider uptime (30d)
100% · 100%
Anthropic · NVIDIA
Claude Opus 4.8
Anthropic · released 2026-05-28
textvision
Context
1M
Max out
128K
Input /1M
$5
Output /1M
$25
Cached /1M
$0.5
Scores
17 · 13 core
NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B NVFP4
NVIDIA · released 2026-08-11
text
Context
1M
Max out
Input /1M
Output /1M
Cached /1M
Scores
7 · 5 core
Quality

Benchmark matrix

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B NVFP4ΔEdge
Reported by both · 6
SWE-bench Verified88.6% 52.8% +35.8 ptClaude Opus 4.8
GPQA Diamond93.6% 75.57% +18 ptClaude Opus 4.8
Humanity's Last Exam (no tools)49.8% 10.47% +39.3 ptClaude Opus 4.8
LMArena Elo1452.7 1330.7 +122Claude Opus 4.8
BrowseComp84.3% 36.81% +47.5 ptClaude Opus 4.8
Terminal-Bench 2.174.6% 23.46% +51.1 ptClaude Opus 4.8
Only Claude Opus 4.8 reports · 10
AIME 2026100% matharenanot reported
FrontierMath Tier 4 v2 (Epoch AI run)56.1% epochnot reported
FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 v2 (Epoch AI run)80% epochnot reported
Humanity's Last Exam (with tools)57.9% not reported
OSWorld-Verified83.4% not reported
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 (Epoch AI run)98.3% epochnot reported
SimpleQA Verified53% epochnot reported
SWE-bench Multilingual84.4% not reported
SWE-bench Multimodal38.4% not reported
SWE-Bench Pro69.2% not reported
Only NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B NVFP4 reports · 1
MMLU-Pronot reported81.62%
Scores tagged "epoch" or "matharena" are independent runs, used only where the lab has not published its own; ⚠ marks rows MathArena flags as released after the competition. Higher is better on every row. Δ is Claude Opus 4.8 minus NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B NVFP4 in the benchmark's own unit. "Not reported" means the lab has not published that figure; it is not a zero. ↗ opens the source.
Specs & pricing

Side by side

SpecClaude Opus 4.8NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B NVFP4Edge
Context window1M tokens1M tokensTie
Max output128K tokens
Input price / 1M$5
Output price / 1M$25
Cached input / 1M$0.5
Input + output / 1M
Lower is cheaper. List prices; batch, tool and regional fees excluded.
$30
Modalitiestext · visiontextClaude Opus 4.8
Released2026-05-282026-08-11
Cited benchmark scores177
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