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Nvidia Nemotron 3 Nano 30B
Nvidia's latest Nemotron 3 Nano model with 30B total parameters (3B active) using hybrid Mamba-Transformer MoE architecture. Features excellent throughput and strong reasoning capabilities.
- Input
- Text
- Output
- Text
- Discovery tier
- Open weights
Pricing
USD per 1M tokens- Input
- $0.17
- Output
- $0.68
Reference prices as published by the model provider. API example
Specifications
- Context window
- 262.1K
- Max output
- —
- Average output (7 days)
- 564 tokens
- Longer than 53% of 468 models
Side by side
Nvidia Nemotron 3 Nano 30B compared
Specifications, prices, speed and benchmark scores next to each other. Benchmarks below show every compared model too.
| Nvidia Nemotron 3 Nano 30BnvidiaThis model | Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Lightning TEEnvidiaRemove | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | nvidia | nvidia |
| Discovery tier | Open weights | Open weights |
| Added | Mar 1, 2026 | Sep 11, 2026 |
| Limits | ||
| Context window | 262.14K | 262.14K |
| Max output | — | 65.54K |
| Average output | 564 tokens | — |
| Pricing, USD per 1M tokens | ||
| Input | $0.17 | $0.08Best |
| Output | $0.68 | $0.20Best |
| Cache read | — | $0.04 |
| Performance | ||
| Request success (24h) | 100.0% | — |
| Benchmark indexes | ||
| Intelligence Index | 6.8 | 12.9Best |
| Coding Index | — | 26.8 |
| Math Index | 13.3 | — |
| Capabilities | ||
| Reasoning | No | Yes |
| Tools | No | Yes |
| Structured output | No | Yes |
| Reasoning effort | — | none, low, medium, high |
Public evaluations
Benchmarks
Independent evaluation results, with how each score ranks among the models in the Noumen catalog.
- Nvidia Nemotron 3 Nano 30B
- Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Lightning TEE
Intelligence Index
- Nvidia Nemotron 3 Nano 30B6.8
- Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Lightning TEE12.9
Nvidia Nemotron 3 Nano 30B: Better than 8% of 326 scored models
Indexes
Coding Index
Composite of the coding evaluations
- Nvidia Nemotron 3 Nano 30B: —
- Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Lightning TEE: 26.8
Math Index
Composite of the math evaluations
- Nvidia Nemotron 3 Nano 30B: 13.3
- Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Lightning TEE: —
Agentic work
AutomationBench-AA
Workflow automation, penalized for guardrail violations
- Nvidia Nemotron 3 Nano 30B: —
- Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Lightning TEE: 0.8%
AutomationBench-AA tasks completed
Workflows finished end to end without a guardrail violation
- Nvidia Nemotron 3 Nano 30B: —
- Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Lightning TEE: 0.0%
AA-Briefcasev1.1
Agentic knowledge work, rated head to head
- Nvidia Nemotron 3 Nano 30B: —
- Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Lightning TEE: 506 Elo
GDPval-AAv2.1
Economically valuable occupational tasks, rated head to head
- Nvidia Nemotron 3 Nano 30B: —
- Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Lightning TEE: 638 Elo
Document reasoning
GDP.pdf
Professional reasoning over PDF documents, all-pass rate
- Nvidia Nemotron 3 Nano 30B: —
- Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Lightning TEE: 3.0%
AA-LCRv1.1
Reasoning across long documents
- Nvidia Nemotron 3 Nano 30B: 10.7%
- Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Lightning TEE: 60.3%Top
MLCR-AA
Long-context reasoning over medical records
- Nvidia Nemotron 3 Nano 30B: —
- Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Lightning TEE: 2.2%
Reasoning and knowledge
Humanity’s Last Exam
Expert-level questions across academic fields
- Nvidia Nemotron 3 Nano 30B: 4.6%
- Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Lightning TEE: 10.6%Top
GPQA Diamond
Graduate-level science questions
- Nvidia Nemotron 3 Nano 30B: 39.9%
- Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Lightning TEE: 74.3%Top
MMLU-Pro
Multi-subject knowledge and reasoning
- Nvidia Nemotron 3 Nano 30B: 57.9%
- Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Lightning TEE: —
IFBench
Following precise output instructions
- Nvidia Nemotron 3 Nano 30B: 37.5%
- Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Lightning TEE: —
Coding
Terminal-Benchv4.0
Practical software engineering in a terminal
- Nvidia Nemotron 3 Nano 30B: —
- Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Lightning TEE: 0.5%
SciCode
Scientific computing in Python
- Nvidia Nemotron 3 Nano 30B: —
- Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Lightning TEE: 32.1%
LiveCodeBench
Recent competitive programming problems
- Nvidia Nemotron 3 Nano 30B: 36.0%
- Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Lightning TEE: —
Math
AIME 2025
Competition mathematics, 2025 problems
- Nvidia Nemotron 3 Nano 30B: 13.3%
- Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Lightning TEE: —
Legacy evaluations
Terminal-Bench Hard
Earlier terminal task suite
- Nvidia Nemotron 3 Nano 30B: 12.1%
- Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Lightning TEE: —
τ²-Bench Telecom
Tool use in a customer-support simulation
- Nvidia Nemotron 3 Nano 30B: 25.4%
- Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Lightning TEE: —
AA-LCR (unversioned)
Long-context reasoning, earlier grading
- Nvidia Nemotron 3 Nano 30B: 10.7%
- Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Lightning TEE: 60.3%Top
Scores from Artificial Analysis, updated Oct 26, 2026. Artificial Analysis
Live routing data
Performance and reliability
Recent averages across requests routed for this model. Your own speed depends on prompt length, reasoning effort and load.
- Request success (24h)
- 100.0%
- Reliable
- Healthy (98% or more)
- Degraded (90–98%)
- Down (under 90%)
- No requests
Developers
Use it through the API
Noumen’s API is OpenAI-compatible: any Chat Completions client works with a base URL and a key.
curl https://www.noumen.xyz/api/v1/chat/completions \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $NOUMEN_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"model": "nvidia/nemotron-3-nano-30b-a3b",
"messages": [{ "role": "user", "content": "Explain this stack trace." }]
}'import os
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(base_url="https://www.noumen.xyz/api/v1", api_key=os.environ["NOUMEN_API_KEY"])
reply = client.chat.completions.create(
model="nvidia/nemotron-3-nano-30b-a3b",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Explain this stack trace."}],
)
print(reply.choices[0].message.content)nvidia
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