Model comparison
Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B vs o1
Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B and o1 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (40.6 vs 40.9), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.
NVIDIASummary
- They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B scores higher in 1 category and o1 in 7 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in long context, where o1 leads 50.3 to 39.5.
- Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B is cheaper at $0.05 / $0.20 per million input/output tokens, against $15 / $60 for o1.
- Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B accepts more context: 262K tokens versus 200K.
- Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B | o1 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | NVIDIA | OpenAI |
| Noometry Index | 40.6 | 40.9 |
| Released | 2025-12-15 | 2024-09-12 |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |
| Context window | 262K | 200K |
| Max output | 262K | 100K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.05 | $15 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.20 | $60 |
| Results tracked | 18 | 52 |
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Category by category
Coding o1 leads
Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B: 40.5 (#138), o1: 46.1 (#70)
| Benchmark | Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B | o1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1378 | 1367 |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 61.7% |
| WeirdML | — | 47.6% |
| LiveBench Coding | — | 69.7% |
| CadEval | — | 56% |
| HumanEval+ | — | 89% |
| MBPP+ | — | 80.2% |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B: —, o1: 24.6 (#117)
| Benchmark | Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B | o1 |
|---|---|---|
| Cybench | — | 10% |
| METR Time Horizons | — | 51.1% |
Reasoning Too close to call
Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B: 27.1 (#124), o1: 27.9 (#111)
| Benchmark | Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B | o1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1348 | 1371 |
| SimpleBench | — | 41.7% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | — | 30.7% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 15% |
| EnigmaEval | — | 5.7% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 91.6% |
| DTBench | — | 74.7% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 65.5% |
| LMCA | — | 22.3% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 141.91 |
| LiveBench | — | 75.7% |
Math Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B leads
Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B: 37.8 (#147), o1: 36.1 (#175)
| Benchmark | Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B | o1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1371 | 1388 |
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | — | 14.7% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 73.3% |
| LiveBench Math | — | 80.3% |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 94.7% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 9.3% |
Knowledge o1 leads
Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B: 38.2 (#148), o1: 41.5 (#110)
| Benchmark | Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B | o1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1355 | 1361 |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 76.8% |
| Humanity's Last Exam | — | 8% |
| SimpleQA Verified | — | 41.1% |
| Confabulations | — | 11.7% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 9.6% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B: —, o1: 34.2 (#93)
| Benchmark | Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B | o1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1168 |
| GeoBench | — | 80% |
| VPCT | — | 37% |
| SpatialViz-Bench | — | 41.4% |
Multilingual o1 leads
Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B: 45.8 (#162), o1: 48.6 (#142)
| Benchmark | Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B | o1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1320 | 1358 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1382 | 1394 |
| LMArena French | 1396 | 1344 |
| LMArena German | 1348 | 1337 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1268 | 1346 |
| LMArena Korean | 1269 | 1396 |
| LMArena Russian | 1303 | 1356 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1376 | 1345 |
Instruction Following o1 leads
Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B: 68.8 (#180), o1: 74.8 (#86)
| Benchmark | Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B | o1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1304 | 1367 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 81.5% |
Long Context o1 leads
Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B: 39.5 (#175), o1: 50.3 (#9)
| Benchmark | Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B | o1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1300 | 1378 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 83.3% |
Writing & Preference o1 leads
Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B: 52.3 (#174), o1: 55.6 (#144)
| Benchmark | Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B | o1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1348 | 1366 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1269 | 1348 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1319 | 1369 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 70.2% |
| LiveBench Language | — | 65.4% |
Frequently asked questions
Is Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B better than o1?
Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B and o1 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (40.6 vs 40.9), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Which is cheaper, Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B or o1?
Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B is cheaper. It lists at $0.05 per million input tokens and $0.20 per million output tokens; o1 lists at $15 and $60.
Is Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B or o1 better for coding?
o1 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 46.1 versus 40.5 in the Noometry coding category.
Which has the bigger context window?
Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B does, with 262K tokens against 200K.
How many benchmarks do Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B and o1 share?
17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B has 18 scored results on Noometry and o1 has 52.