DeepSeek V3 0324 vs NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B (Reasoning)
Which is better for the money: DeepSeek V3 0324 by DeepSeek 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 DeepSeek V3 0324
NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B (Reasoning) vs DeepSeek V3 0324: 8.2% less intelligence, 228.2% more cost to run the AA benchmark, and 127.5% slower end-to-end.
| Metric | DeepSeek V3 0324 | NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B (Reasoning) | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Intelligence (higher is better) | 9.7 | 8.9 | −8.2% NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nan… is 8.2% less intelligent |
| Total AA cost (lower is better) | $19.42 | $63.74 | +228.2% NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nan… is 3.3× more expensive |
| End-to-end time (lower is better) | 4.44s | 10.10s | +127.5% NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nan… is 127.5% slower |
| Price per 1M tokens (in / out) | $0.24 / $0.90 | $0.05 / $0.20 | |
| Input modalities | Text | Text |
Today's Pareto frontier
Against the frontier
- DeepSeek V3 0324 is off the frontier: at the same or lower cost, GPT-6 Luna (Low) scores 21.50 for $10.6.
- 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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