Verdict
Built from the measurements below
- Accuracy is too close to call: Nemotron 3.5 Super VL scored 40.0% and Qwen3.6 35B A3B 37.5% on the same 80 questions, a gap within what chance alone could produce.
- Nemotron 3.5 Super VL is 2.9× cheaper per question as billed ($0.0013 vs $0.0037), reasoning tokens included.
- Nemotron 3.5 Super VL generates text 5.3× faster: 715 tokens per second against 135.
- Qwen3.6 35B A3B starts answering sooner: 0.4 s to the first token, against 0.6 s for Nemotron 3.5 Super VL.
- Nemotron 3.5 Super VL accepts more context: 1M tokens against 262k.
Which should you choose?
Choose Nemotron 3.5 Super VL for the lower cost per correct answer ($0.0032 against $0.0099), faster streaming and a 1M-token context window. Choose Qwen3.6 35B A3B for a quicker first token. The widest subject gap is in medicine: Qwen3.6 35B A3B answered 6 of 11 correctly, Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 2 of 11. With so few questions per subject, treat this as a lead to test on your own prompts, not a result.
Accuracy gap +2.5 points (z = 0.32). We call a winner only when z is at least 1.96, the usual 95% threshold. Speed, latency and price need a 10% margin.