Noometry

Model comparison

Nemotron 4 340b Instruct vs Qwen3-30B-A3B

Qwen3-30B-A3B is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.9 to 35.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.

Nemotron 4 340b Instruct NVIDIA

35.9

Rank #223 Confirmed

Qwen3-30B-A3B Alibaba (Qwen)

38.9

Rank #179 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Nemotron 4 340b Instruct scores higher in 2 categories and Qwen3-30B-A3B in 6 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Qwen3-30B-A3B leads 55.6 to 42.7.

Side by side

Nemotron 4 340b InstructQwen3-30B-A3B
ProviderNVIDIAAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index35.938.9
Released2024-06-142025-04-28
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window—41K
Max output—16K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.12
Output $ / M tokens—$0.50
Results tracked1732

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Category by category

Coding Qwen3-30B-A3B leads

Nemotron 4 340b Instruct: 35.2 (#228), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 37.5 (#194)

BenchmarkNemotron 4 340b InstructQwen3-30B-A3B
LMArena Coding12091416
SciCode—33.3%
WeirdML—29.8%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Nemotron 4 340b Instruct: —, Qwen3-30B-A3B: 29.8 (#82)

BenchmarkNemotron 4 340b InstructQwen3-30B-A3B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—41.4%

Reasoning Nemotron 4 340b Instruct leads

Nemotron 4 340b Instruct: 23.4 (#178), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 22.2 (#204)

BenchmarkNemotron 4 340b InstructQwen3-30B-A3B
LMArena Hard Prompts12021398
Kagi LLM Benchmark—54.9%
CritPt—0.3%
Chess Puzzles—8%
DTBench—69.3%
LMCA—22.4%
Epoch Capabilities Index—139.63

Math Qwen3-30B-A3B leads

Nemotron 4 340b Instruct: 34.3 (#195), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 37.4 (#157)

BenchmarkNemotron 4 340b InstructQwen3-30B-A3B
LMArena Math12161394
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions—47.8%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—70.3%

Knowledge Qwen3-30B-A3B leads

Nemotron 4 340b Instruct: 32.0 (#216), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 41.8 (#105)

BenchmarkNemotron 4 340b InstructQwen3-30B-A3B
LMArena Expert11711396
GPQA Diamond—70.1%
Confabulations—12.3%

Multilingual Qwen3-30B-A3B leads

Nemotron 4 340b Instruct: 37.9 (#233), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 49.5 (#132)

BenchmarkNemotron 4 340b InstructQwen3-30B-A3B
LMArena Non-English12061372
LMArena Chinese12141433
LMArena French11971418
LMArena German11921380
LMArena Japanese11281337
LMArena Korean11481331
LMArena Russian12191370
LMArena Spanish11951404

Instruction Following Qwen3-30B-A3B leads

Nemotron 4 340b Instruct: 63.1 (#232), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 72.0 (#142)

BenchmarkNemotron 4 340b InstructQwen3-30B-A3B
LMArena Instruction Following12031363

Long Context Nemotron 4 340b Instruct leads

Nemotron 4 340b Instruct: 37.1 (#221), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 31.0 (#283)

BenchmarkNemotron 4 340b InstructQwen3-30B-A3B
LMArena Longer Query12251379
Fiction.LiveBench—40.6%

Writing & Preference Qwen3-30B-A3B leads

Nemotron 4 340b Instruct: 42.7 (#233), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 55.6 (#143)

BenchmarkNemotron 4 340b InstructQwen3-30B-A3B
LMArena Text12251384
LMArena Creative Writing12031317
LMArena Multi-Turn12141378
Short-Story Creative Writing—75.3%

Frequently asked questions

Is Nemotron 4 340b Instruct better than Qwen3-30B-A3B?

Qwen3-30B-A3B is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.9 to 35.9 on the Noometry Index.

Is Nemotron 4 340b Instruct or Qwen3-30B-A3B better for coding?

Qwen3-30B-A3B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 37.5 versus 35.2 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Nemotron 4 340b Instruct and Qwen3-30B-A3B share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Nemotron 4 340b Instruct has 17 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3-30B-A3B has 32.

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