Noometry

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Claude 3 Sonnet vs Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B

Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.6 to 29.0 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.

Claude 3 Sonnet Anthropic

29.0

Rank #319 Confirmed

Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B NVIDIA

40.6

Rank #147 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3 Sonnet scores higher in 0 categories and Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B leads 37.8 to 10.7.
  • Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude 3 SonnetNemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B
ProviderAnthropicNVIDIA
Noometry Index29.040.6
Released2024-02-292025-12-15
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—262K
Max output—262K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.05
Output $ / M tokens—$0.20
Results tracked3018

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Category by category

Coding Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 29.6 (#302), Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B: 40.5 (#138)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetNemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B
LMArena Coding12231378
WeirdML10.2%—
BigCodeBench Instruct42.7%—
BigCodeBench Complete53.8%—
HumanEval+64%—
MBPP+69.3%—

Reasoning Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 20.5 (#237), Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B: 27.1 (#124)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetNemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B
LMArena Hard Prompts11971348
DTBench53.6%—
Epoch Capabilities Index120.7—
WinoGrande75.1%—

Math Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 10.7 (#310), Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B: 37.8 (#147)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetNemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B
LMArena Math12131371
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20252.5%—
MATH Level 518.2%—

Knowledge Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 21.1 (#276), Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B: 38.2 (#148)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetNemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B
LMArena Expert11731355
GPQA Diamond40.6%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate—9.6%
MMLU75.9%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude 3 Sonnet: 25.2 (#125), Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B: —

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetNemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B
LMArena Vision984—

Multilingual Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 37.8 (#234), Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B: 45.8 (#162)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetNemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B
LMArena Non-English12051320
LMArena Chinese11891382
LMArena French12291396
LMArena German12041348
LMArena Japanese11311268
LMArena Korean11281269
LMArena Russian12271303
LMArena Spanish12041376

Instruction Following Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 62.8 (#235), Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B: 68.8 (#180)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetNemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B
LMArena Instruction Following11991304

Long Context Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 36.7 (#228), Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B: 39.5 (#175)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetNemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B
LMArena Longer Query12111300

Writing & Preference Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 42.1 (#238), Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B: 52.3 (#174)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetNemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B
LMArena Text12181348
LMArena Creative Writing11861269
LMArena Multi-Turn12271319

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude 3 Sonnet better than Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B?

Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.6 to 29.0 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude 3 Sonnet or Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B better for coding?

Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 40.5 versus 29.6 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude 3 Sonnet and Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3 Sonnet has 30 scored results on Noometry and Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B has 18.

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