Claude Haiku 5.5 (Low) vs NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B (Reasoning)
Which is better for the money: Claude Haiku 5.5 (Low) by Anthropic or NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B (Reasoning) by NVIDIA? Intelligence, total benchmark cost, and end-to-end time from Artificial Analysis & other sources, snapshot 2026-10-27.
Clear winner
Verdict
Pick Claude Haiku 5.5 (Low)
NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B (Reasoning) vs Claude Haiku 5.5 (Low): 69.8% less intelligence, 85.8% more cost to run the AA benchmark, and 11.8% faster end-to-end.
| Metric | Claude Haiku 5.5 (Low) | NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B (Reasoning) | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Intelligence (higher is better) | 29.5 | 8.9 | −69.8% NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nan… is 69.8% less intelligent |
| Total AA cost (lower is better) | $34.31 | $63.74 | +85.8% NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nan… is 85.8% more expensive |
| End-to-end time (lower is better) | 11.45s | 10.10s | −11.8% NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nan… is 11.8% faster |
| Price per 1M tokens (in / out) | $0.10 / $0.50 | $0.05 / $0.20 | |
| Input modalities | Text, Image | Text |
Today's Pareto frontier
Against the frontier
- Claude Haiku 5.5 (Low) is off the frontier: at the same or lower cost, GPT-6 Luna (Medium) scores 29.90 for $31.2.
- NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B (Reasoning) is off the frontier: at the same or lower cost, Claude Haiku 5.5 (Medium) scores 34.50 for $56.4.
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