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Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B vs Qwen Plus

Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.6 to 37.1 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 13 shared benchmarks.

Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B NVIDIA

40.6

Rank #147 Confirmed

Qwen Plus Alibaba (Qwen)

37.1

Rank #210 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 13 benchmarks with published results for both. Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B scores higher in 6 categories and Qwen Plus in 2 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B leads 37.8 to 23.3.
  • Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B is cheaper at $0.05 / $0.20 per million input/output tokens, against $0.40 / $1.20 for Qwen Plus.
  • Qwen Plus accepts more context: 1M tokens versus 262K.
  • Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3BQwen Plus
ProviderNVIDIAAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index40.637.1
Released2025-12-152024-01-25
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window262K1M
Max output262K33K
Input $ / M tokens$0.05$0.40
Output $ / M tokens$0.20$1.20
Results tracked1820

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Category by category

Coding Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B leads

Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B: 40.5 (#138), Qwen Plus: 38.9 (#167)

BenchmarkNemotron 3 Nano 30B A3BQwen Plus
LMArena Coding13781328

Reasoning Qwen Plus leads

Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B: 27.1 (#124), Qwen Plus: 28.4 (#107)

BenchmarkNemotron 3 Nano 30B A3BQwen Plus
LMArena Hard Prompts13481317
Kagi LLM Benchmark—63.3%
DTBench—81.1%
LMCA—24%

Math Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B leads

Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B: 37.8 (#147), Qwen Plus: 23.3 (#271)

BenchmarkNemotron 3 Nano 30B A3BQwen Plus
LMArena Math13711326
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—17.8%
MATH Level 5—65.3%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—1.7%

Knowledge Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B leads

Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B: 38.2 (#148), Qwen Plus: 27.4 (#251)

BenchmarkNemotron 3 Nano 30B A3BQwen Plus
LMArena Expert13551328
GPQA Diamond—48.1%
Vectara Hallucination Rate9.6%—

Multilingual Too close to call

Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B: 45.8 (#162), Qwen Plus: 45.1 (#175)

BenchmarkNemotron 3 Nano 30B A3BQwen Plus
LMArena Non-English13201310
LMArena Chinese13821347
LMArena Japanese12681251
LMArena Russian13031323
LMArena French1396—
LMArena German1348—
LMArena Korean1269—
LMArena Spanish1376—

Instruction Following Too close to call

Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B: 68.8 (#180), Qwen Plus: 68.8 (#181)

BenchmarkNemotron 3 Nano 30B A3BQwen Plus
LMArena Instruction Following13041303

Long Context Too close to call

Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B: 39.5 (#175), Qwen Plus: 40.3 (#158)

BenchmarkNemotron 3 Nano 30B A3BQwen Plus
LMArena Longer Query13001324

Writing & Preference Too close to call

Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B: 52.3 (#174), Qwen Plus: 52.2 (#176)

BenchmarkNemotron 3 Nano 30B A3BQwen Plus
LMArena Text13481326
LMArena Creative Writing12691293
LMArena Multi-Turn13191336

Frequently asked questions

Is Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B better than Qwen Plus?

Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.6 to 37.1 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B or Qwen Plus?

Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B is cheaper. It lists at $0.05 per million input tokens and $0.20 per million output tokens; Qwen Plus lists at $0.40 and $1.20.

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

Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 40.5 versus 38.9 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Qwen Plus does, with 1M tokens against 262K.

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

13 benchmarks have published results for both models. Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B has 18 scored results on Noometry and Qwen Plus has 20.

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