Qwen3-32B vs NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-GGUF

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 10 November 2026.

Qwen · A · Open weights
Params
32.8 B
Context
40,960
30d
3.0 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
ggml-org · B · Open weights
Params
30.0 B
Context
262,144
30d
220 K

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Qwen3-32B NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-GGUF
Deployment Open weights · also via API Open weights
Parameters 32.8 B 30.0 B
Architecture Qwen3ForCausalLM —
Context length 40,960 262,144
Licence apache-2.0 other
Commercial use Allowed Unknown
Languages — —
Downloads 30d 2,980,175 220,283
Downloads all time 62.7 M 733 K
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS GGUF
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2025-04-27 2026-08-11
API input price / 1M tokens $0.08 not on OpenRouter
API output price / 1M tokens $0.28 not on OpenRouter
Est. cost per 1M input + 1M output tokens $0.36 not on OpenRouter
Cached input / 1M tokens — not on OpenRouter
AA Intelligence Index — not on OpenRouter
AA Coding Index 15.3 not on OpenRouter
AA Agentic Index 0.9 not on OpenRouter
Max output tokens 16,384 not on OpenRouter
API providers 3 not on OpenRouter
Tool calling Yes not on OpenRouter
Reasoning mode Yes not on OpenRouter

API cost

Estimated cost of 1M input + 1M output tokens via OpenRouter

Qwen3-32B $0.36

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 90 days (13 Aug – 10 Nov)

8.0 M176 K
Qwen3-32B NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-GGUF

VRAM side by side

On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted

NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-GGUF · Q4_0 25.8 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit
Qwen3-32B · fp16 77.5 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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