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NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Nano-30B-A3B (BF16)

NVIDIA · 32B · A3B · open weights

Strongest in Factual grounding (#54 of 102), weakest in Agents (#275 of 289). Above par in 2 of 6 scopes. Among the models it meets almost everywhere, it finishes behind GPT-5.5 and GPT-6 Astra and ahead of Gemma 3 4B IT and Command R+ (08-2024).

§ 1 · Profile

What it is good at

Bars run from 50 — the average of the models each source lists — so right of the line is above par. The middle column is the gap to whoever leads that scope.

Safety50.3−11.1#170/3311/3

Factual grounding51−19.8#54/1021/1

Human preference48.5−20.1#216/3501/1

Agents40.3−25.6#275/2892/6

Knowledge work34.5−37.3#178/1982/2

§ 2 · Head to head

What it beats, and what beats it

The same models turn up scope after scope. Counted once: where both were placed, who finished higher. Bars run right for NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Nano-30B-A3B (BF16), left for the other.

Phi-4 Mini Instructwon 4 · lost 0

Ministral 3 8Bwon 4 · lost 0

Granite 4.2 3Bwon 4 · lost 0

Llama 3.1 8B Instructwon 5 · lost 0

Mistral Mediumwon 4 · lost 1

Llama 3.2 3B Instructwon 3 · lost 1

Command R+ (08-2024)won 3 · lost 1

Gemma 3 4B ITwon 3 · lost 2

Ministral 3 14Bwon 2 · lost 2

Ministral 3 3Bwon 2 · lost 2

Llama 3.2 1B Instructwon 2 · lost 2

Snowflake Arctic Instructwon 2 · lost 2

Granite 3.1 8B Instructwon 2 · lost 2

Granite 4.0 H Smallwon 2 · lost 2

Granite 4.2 8Bwon 2 · lost 2

Mistral Small 3.1 24B Instructwon 2 · lost 2

MiniMax M2.1won 2 · lost 2

Qwen3.5 Flashwon 2 · lost 2

Grok 4 Fastwon 2 · lost 2

Claude Opus 4.1won 2 · lost 2

GLM-5won 2 · lost 2

Gemini 3 Flashwon 2 · lost 2

DeepSeek V3won 3 · lost 3

Ministral 8Bwon 2 · lost 3

Phi 4won 2 · lost 3

GPT-4won 2 · lost 3

Mistral Largewon 2 · lost 3

NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Ultra-550B-A55B (NVFP4)won 2 · lost 3

Grok 4.1 Fastwon 2 · lost 3

Claude Opus 4.5 (High, 32K, 20251101)won 2 · lost 3

Llama 3.3 70B Instructwon 2 · lost 4

Llama 4 Scout Instructwon 2 · lost 4

Mercury 2won 2 · lost 4

Mistral Large 3won 2 · lost 4

DeepSeek R1won 2 · lost 4

GLM-4.7won 2 · lost 4

Kimi K2.5won 2 · lost 4

Gemma 4 31Bwon 2 · lost 4

Kimi K2.6won 2 · lost 4

Gemini 3.1 Prowon 2 · lost 4

Gemini 4 Argonwon 2 · lost 4

Qwen3 8Bwon 1 · lost 3

NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B (NVFP4)won 1 · lost 3

Mistral Small 3.2won 1 · lost 3

Qwen3 30B A3B Instructwon 1 · lost 3

Qwen3.5 27Bwon 1 · lost 3

Grok 3won 1 · lost 3

Grok 4won 1 · lost 3

DeepSeek V3.1won 1 · lost 3

Claude Opus 4won 1 · lost 3

Claude Opus 4.6won 1 · lost 3

GPT OSS 20Bwon 1 · lost 4

GPT-4.1 nanowon 1 · lost 4

GPT-5 nanowon 1 · lost 4

Command A (03-2025)won 1 · lost 4

NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12Bwon 1 · lost 4

O4 Miniwon 1 · lost 4

Kimi K2won 1 · lost 4

Mistral Large 4won 1 · lost 4

GPT-5.2won 1 · lost 4

DeepSeek V4 Flashwon 1 · lost 4

MiniMax M3won 1 · lost 4

Grok 4.3won 1 · lost 4

MiMo V2.6 Flashwon 1 · lost 4

MiMo V2.5 Prowon 1 · lost 4

Qwen3.7 Maxwon 1 · lost 4

GLM-5.3 Flashwon 1 · lost 4

GLM-5.2won 1 · lost 4

Gemini 3.5 Flashwon 1 · lost 4

Gemini 3.6 Flashwon 1 · lost 4

Gemini 3 Prowon 1 · lost 4

Llama 4 Maverick Instructwon 1 · lost 5

Gemma 3 12B ITwon 1 · lost 5

GPT OSS 120Bwon 1 · lost 5

Gemma 3 27B ITwon 1 · lost 5

GPT-5 miniwon 1 · lost 5

Qwen3.5 35B A3Bwon 1 · lost 5

Claude Sonnet 4won 1 · lost 5

MiniMax M2.7won 1 · lost 5

Claude Haiku 4.5won 1 · lost 5

Qwen3.5 122B A10Bwon 1 · lost 5

DeepSeek V3.2won 1 · lost 5

GLM-4.6won 1 · lost 5

GPT-5won 1 · lost 5

Gemini 2.5 Prowon 1 · lost 5

GPT-5.1won 1 · lost 5

Claude Sonnet 4.5 (High, 32K, 20250929)won 1 · lost 5

Claude Sonnet 4.6won 1 · lost 5

GPT-5.6 Solwon 1 · lost 5

Claude Opus 4.7won 1 · lost 5

Qwen3 14Bwon 0 · lost 4

Granite 4.2 30Bwon 0 · lost 4

GLM-4.7 Flashwon 0 · lost 4

GLM-4.5 Airwon 0 · lost 4

MiMo V2 Flashwon 0 · lost 4

Solar Pro 4won 0 · lost 4

Claude 3.7 Sonnetwon 0 · lost 4

MiniMax M2.5won 0 · lost 4

Qwen3 235B A22B Thinkingwon 0 · lost 4

Inkling Smallwon 0 · lost 4

Mistral Medium 3.1won 0 · lost 4

DeepSeek V3.1 Terminuswon 0 · lost 4

Muse Glimmerwon 0 · lost 4

Mistral Medium 3.5won 0 · lost 4

O3won 0 · lost 4

MiMo V2.5won 0 · lost 4

Qwen3.8 27Bwon 0 · lost 4

Qwen3.6 Pluswon 0 · lost 4

Step 5won 0 · lost 4

Gemini 3.5 Flash-Litewon 0 · lost 4

Qwen3.7 Pluswon 0 · lost 4

GPT-5.5 Instantwon 0 · lost 4

DeepSeek V4.1 Flashwon 0 · lost 4

Claude Sonnet 5.5won 0 · lost 4

GPT-6.1 Solwon 0 · lost 4

GLM-5.3won 0 · lost 4

Kimi K3won 0 · lost 4

Muse Sparkwon 0 · lost 4

Gemini 3.7 Flashwon 0 · lost 4

Muse Spark 1.2won 0 · lost 4

Muse Spark 1.3won 0 · lost 4

Claude Fable 5.1won 0 · lost 4

Claude Fable 5won 0 · lost 4

Muse Wonderwon 0 · lost 4

GPT-4o miniwon 0 · lost 5

Claude 3.5 Haikuwon 0 · lost 5

O3 Miniwon 0 · lost 5

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Litewon 0 · lost 5

GPT-4.1 miniwon 0 · lost 5

Gemini 2.5 Flashwon 0 · lost 5

GPT-4.1won 0 · lost 5

Qwen3 235B A22B Instructwon 0 · lost 5

Inklingwon 0 · lost 5

GPT-6 Lunawon 0 · lost 5

Qwen3.5 397B A17Bwon 0 · lost 5

Grok 4.7won 0 · lost 5

GPT-5.6 Lunawon 0 · lost 5

Hy3won 0 · lost 5

Grok 4.6won 0 · lost 5

Claude Sonnet 5won 0 · lost 5

GLM-5.1won 0 · lost 5

Grok 4.5won 0 · lost 5

GPT-5.6 Terrawon 0 · lost 5

MiMo V2.6 Prowon 0 · lost 5

Claude Opus 4.8won 0 · lost 5

Qwen3.8 Maxwon 0 · lost 5

Muse Spark 1.1won 0 · lost 5

Claude Opus 5won 0 · lost 5

Gemini 3.8 Flashwon 0 · lost 5

Claude Opus 5.5won 0 · lost 5

Amazon Nova 2 Litewon 0 · lost 6

GPT-4owon 0 · lost 6

Qwen3 32Bwon 0 · lost 6

Trinity Largewon 0 · lost 6

Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinkingwon 0 · lost 6

GPT-5.4 nanowon 0 · lost 6

Gemini 3.1 Flash-Litewon 0 · lost 6

Gemma 4 26B A4Bwon 0 · lost 6

GPT-5.4 miniwon 0 · lost 6

GPT-6 Solwon 0 · lost 6

DeepSeek-V4-Pro (High, 20260813)won 0 · lost 6

GPT-5.4won 0 · lost 6

GPT-6 Astrawon 0 · lost 6

GPT-5.5won 0 · lost 6

§ 3 · Sources

Where the numbers come from

4 publications, 4 figures. Every one links to the page it was read from.

LMArena Text ↗1 measureread 2026-10-21

LMArena Text 1314

GDPval-AA ↗1 measureread 2026-10-21

GDPval-AA 255

AA-Briefcase ↗1 measureread 2026-10-21

AA-Briefcase 77

Vectara Hallucination Leaderboard ↗1 measureread 2026-10-21

Vectara · Factual consistency 90.4%

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