Reasoning setting
- API price from
- $0.05 in / $0.20 out / 1M tokOpenRouter · Crusoe · FP8
- Context window
- 1M tok
Performance profile
Capabilities
Context window
Modalities
Measured setting
Integration
Reasoning trade-offs
Source (opens in a new tab)- Intelligence Index
- 8.9
- Cost / task
- $0.0168
- Evaluation time
- 1.8m
Pricing & access
USD per 1M tokens
- Input
- $0.05
- Output
- $0.20
- Cached input
- $0.03
Run locally
~25.2 GiB
RAM + VRAM
Estimate assumptions
One text chat at the selected context, with a 16-bit cache and app allowance. Operating system and image processing are extra; optimized caches can use less.
32 GiB RAMwithout GPU offload
- Weights
- 22.8 GiB
- Context + state
- 95.6 MiB16-bit cache
- App allowance
- 2.3 GiB
- Download
- 24.5 GB
- Disk space
- ~32 GB
Set up in Ollama · Q4_K_M · 8K context
Save the following as Modelfile. The context matches the estimate above.
FROM hf.co/lmstudio-community/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Nano-30B-A3B-GGUF:Q4_K_M PARAMETER num_ctx 8192
Then run these commands in your terminal:
ollama create llmcurrent-local -f Modelfile ollama run llmcurrent-local
Ollama import instructions (opens in a new tab) · For LM Studio or Jan, open the app’s model search, enter lmstudio-community/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Nano-30B-A3B-GGUF, choose Q4_K_M, and set context to 8,192 tokens in the app’s model settings. Software links above open each app’s setup guide.
Benchmarks
Full leaderboardSource (opens in a new tab)Humanity’s Last Exam
Frontier reasoning- 1Claude Opus 5.5Max61.4%
- 2Claude Fable 5.1Max59.1%
- 3Gemini 4 ArgonHigh57.1%
- 82Qwen3 Next 80B A3B (Reasoning)Reasoning12.6%
- 83Command A+Reasoning12.0%
- 84Nova 2.0 LiteHigh11.6%
- 85NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3BReasoning11.4%
- 86Granite 4.2 30BReasoning11.2%
- 87North Mini CodeReasoning11.1%
- 88gpt-oss-20bHigh11.0%
Peers use their best measured result on this benchmark.
Alternatives
- Scores highergpt-oss-20bHigh
- Intelligence Index
- 9.0+0.1
- Cost / task
- $0.011−32%
- Higher score, lower costGranite 4.2 3BReasoning
- Intelligence Index
- 9.1+0.2
- Cost / task
- $0.006−64%
- More from NVIDIANemotron 3.5 LightningReasoning
- Intelligence Index
- 12.9+4.0
- Cost / task
- $0.093+456%
Each model at its highest-scoring measured setting · Intelligence Index v4.3.2 and its evaluation cost per task.