nvidia · Open weights
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 | Gemini 2.5 Flash LiteGoogleRemove | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | nvidia | |
| Discovery tier | Open weights | Efficient |
| Added | Mar 1, 2026 | Jun 17, 2025 |
| Limits | ||
| Context window | 262.14K | 1.05MBest |
| Max output | — | 65.54K |
| Average output | 564 tokens | 42 tokens |
| Pricing, USD per 1M tokens | ||
| Input | $0.17 | $0.10Best |
| Output | $0.68 | $0.40Best |
| Cache read | — | $0.01 |
| Performance | ||
| Throughput | — | 271.6 tok/s |
| Time to first token | — | 0.7 s |
| Request success (24h) | 100.0%Best | 99.4% |
| Benchmark indexes | ||
| Intelligence Index | 6.8Best | 6.7 |
| Math Index | 13.3 | 35.3Best |
| Capabilities | ||
| Reasoning | No | Yes |
| Tools | No | Yes |
| Vision | No | Yes |
| Audio input | No | Yes |
| Video input | No | Yes |
| Reasoning effort | — | 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
- Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite
Intelligence Index
- Nvidia Nemotron 3 Nano 30B6.8
- Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite6.7
Nvidia Nemotron 3 Nano 30B: Better than 8% of 326 scored models
Indexes
Math Index
Composite of the math evaluations
- Nvidia Nemotron 3 Nano 30B: 13.3
- Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite: 35.3Top
Document reasoning
AA-LCRv1.1
Reasoning across long documents
- Nvidia Nemotron 3 Nano 30B: 10.7%
- Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite: 32.0%Top
Reasoning and knowledge
Humanity’s Last Exam
Expert-level questions across academic fields
- Nvidia Nemotron 3 Nano 30B: 4.6%Top
- Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite: 3.7%
GPQA Diamond
Graduate-level science questions
- Nvidia Nemotron 3 Nano 30B: 39.9%
- Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite: 47.4%Top
MMLU-Pro
Multi-subject knowledge and reasoning
- Nvidia Nemotron 3 Nano 30B: 57.9%
- Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite: 72.4%Top
IFBench
Following precise output instructions
- Nvidia Nemotron 3 Nano 30B: 37.5%Top
- Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite: 31.5%
Coding
LiveCodeBench
Recent competitive programming problems
- Nvidia Nemotron 3 Nano 30B: 36.0%
- Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite: 40.0%Top
Math
AIME 2025
Competition mathematics, 2025 problems
- Nvidia Nemotron 3 Nano 30B: 13.3%
- Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite: 35.3%Top
AIME
Competition mathematics
- Nvidia Nemotron 3 Nano 30B: —
- Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite: 50.0%
MATH-500
Competition math problems
- Nvidia Nemotron 3 Nano 30B: —
- Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite: 92.6%
Legacy evaluations
Terminal-Bench Hard
Earlier terminal task suite
- Nvidia Nemotron 3 Nano 30B: 12.1%Top
- Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite: 2.3%
τ²-Bench Telecom
Tool use in a customer-support simulation
- Nvidia Nemotron 3 Nano 30B: 25.4%Top
- Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite: 19.0%
AA-LCR (unversioned)
Long-context reasoning, earlier grading
- Nvidia Nemotron 3 Nano 30B: 10.7%
- Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite: 32.0%Top
Scores from Artificial Analysis, updated Oct 26, 2026. Artificial Analysis
- Nvidia Nemotron 3 Nano 30B
- Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite
| Leaderboard | Nvidia Nemotron 3 Nano 30B | Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite |
|---|---|---|
| Vision Style Control · Captioning | Not in top 20 | #15 · 1182.4 |
Ranks among Noumen catalog models on LMArena leaderboards. Only top-20 placements are listed.LMArena
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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