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Mistral vs Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B

Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.6 to 29.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.

Mistral Mistral AI

29.9

Rank #303 Confirmed

Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B NVIDIA

40.6

Rank #147 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Mistral 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 knowledge, where Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B leads 38.2 to 16.6.
  • Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

MistralNemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B
ProviderMistral AINVIDIA
Noometry Index29.940.6
Released—2025-12-15
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—262K
Max output—262K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.05
Output $ / M tokens—$0.20
Results tracked2218

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Category by category

Coding Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B leads

Mistral: 33.8 (#250), Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B: 40.5 (#138)

BenchmarkMistralNemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B
LMArena Coding11621378

Reasoning Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B leads

Mistral: 22.2 (#200), Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B: 27.1 (#124)

BenchmarkMistralNemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B
LMArena Hard Prompts11491348

Math Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B leads

Mistral: 22.3 (#278), Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B: 37.8 (#147)

BenchmarkMistralNemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B
LMArena Math11801371
Omni-MATH7.2%—

Knowledge Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B leads

Mistral: 16.6 (#288), Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B: 38.2 (#148)

BenchmarkMistralNemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B
LMArena Expert11251355
MMLU-Pro27.7%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate—9.6%
GPQA (HELM)30.3%—

Multilingual Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B leads

Mistral: 32.8 (#254), Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B: 45.8 (#162)

BenchmarkMistralNemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B
LMArena Non-English11291320
LMArena Chinese11091382
LMArena French11801396
LMArena German11551348
LMArena Japanese10131268
LMArena Korean10321269
LMArena Russian11681303
LMArena Spanish11431376

Instruction Following Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B leads

Mistral: 52.6 (#288), Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B: 68.8 (#180)

BenchmarkMistralNemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B
LMArena Instruction Following11521304
IFEval56.8%—

Long Context Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B leads

Mistral: 35.0 (#245), Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B: 39.5 (#175)

BenchmarkMistralNemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B
LMArena Longer Query11531300

Writing & Preference Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B leads

Mistral: 37.0 (#260), Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B: 52.3 (#174)

BenchmarkMistralNemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B
LMArena Text11651348
LMArena Creative Writing11581269
LMArena Multi-Turn11471319
WildBench66%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Mistral better than Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B?

Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.6 to 29.9 on the Noometry Index.

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

Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 40.5 versus 33.8 in the Noometry coding category.

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

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mistral has 22 scored results on Noometry and Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B has 18.

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