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Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B vs Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct

Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.6 to 27.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.

Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B NVIDIA

40.6

Rank #147 Confirmed

Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct Microsoft

27.9

Rank #328 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B scores higher in 8 categories and Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B leads 52.3 to 27.6.

Side by side

Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3BPhi 3 Mini 4k Instruct
ProviderNVIDIAMicrosoft
Noometry Index40.627.9
Released2025-12-152024-04-23
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window262K—
Max output262K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.05—
Output $ / M tokens$0.20—
Results tracked1835

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Category by category

Coding Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B leads

Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B: 40.5 (#138), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 26.6 (#323)

BenchmarkNemotron 3 Nano 30B A3BPhi 3 Mini 4k Instruct
LMArena Coding13781093
LiveBench Coding—15.5%
HumanEval+—59.1%
MBPP+—54.2%

Reasoning Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B leads

Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B: 27.1 (#124), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 14.1 (#328)

BenchmarkNemotron 3 Nano 30B A3BPhi 3 Mini 4k Instruct
LMArena Hard Prompts13481072
Chess Puzzles—0%
LiveBench Reasoning—26.8%
LiveBench Data Analysis—34.7%
Adversarial NLI—52.8%
BIG-Bench Hard—71.7%
HellaSwag—76.7%
LiveBench—22.4%
WinoGrande—70.8%

Math Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B leads

Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B: 37.8 (#147), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 26.6 (#257)

BenchmarkNemotron 3 Nano 30B A3BPhi 3 Mini 4k Instruct
LMArena Math13711111
LiveBench Math—15.7%

Knowledge Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B leads

Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B: 38.2 (#148), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 28.5 (#246)

BenchmarkNemotron 3 Nano 30B A3BPhi 3 Mini 4k Instruct
LMArena Expert13551045
Vectara Hallucination Rate9.6%—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—84.9%
MMLU—68.8%
OpenBookQA—88%
TriviaQA—64%

Multilingual Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B leads

Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B: 45.8 (#162), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 26.3 (#280)

BenchmarkNemotron 3 Nano 30B A3BPhi 3 Mini 4k Instruct
LMArena Non-English13201021
LMArena Chinese13821021
LMArena French13961076
LMArena German13481044
LMArena Japanese1268935
LMArena Korean1269905
LMArena Russian13031022
LMArena Spanish13761085

Instruction Following Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B leads

Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B: 68.8 (#180), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 47.7 (#303)

BenchmarkNemotron 3 Nano 30B A3BPhi 3 Mini 4k Instruct
LMArena Instruction Following13041053
LiveBench Instruction Following—39.1%

Long Context Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B leads

Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B: 39.5 (#175), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 31.7 (#276)

BenchmarkNemotron 3 Nano 30B A3BPhi 3 Mini 4k Instruct
LMArena Longer Query13001044

Writing & Preference Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B leads

Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B: 52.3 (#174), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 27.6 (#300)

BenchmarkNemotron 3 Nano 30B A3BPhi 3 Mini 4k Instruct
LMArena Text13481073
LMArena Creative Writing12691037
LMArena Multi-Turn13191018
LiveBench Language—9.2%

Frequently asked questions

Is Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B better than Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct?

Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.6 to 27.9 on the Noometry Index.

Is Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B or Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct better for coding?

Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 40.5 versus 26.6 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B and Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B has 18 scored results on Noometry and Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct has 35.

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