DeepSeek V3 (Dec '24) vs NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B (Reasoning)

Which is better for the money: DeepSeek V3 (Dec '24) 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.

Trade-off

DeepSeekDeepSeek V3 (Dec '24)Off the frontier

Intelligence: 8.50
Total cost: $25.4

NVIDIANVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B (Reasoning)Off the frontier

Intelligence: 8.90
Total cost: $63.7

Verdict

Depends on your budget

NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B (Reasoni… scores 0.4 points higher (8.9 vs 8.5) but costs 2.5× as much to run the benchmark ($63.7 vs $25.4; mid-range vs budget cost classes). Pick NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B (Reasoni… when the extra intelligence is worth the premium, otherwise DeepSeek V3 (Dec '24).

Metric	DeepSeek V3 (Dec '24)	NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B (Reasoning)	Difference
Intelligence (higher is better)	8.5	8.9	+4.7% NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nan… is 4.7% more intelligent
Total AA cost (lower is better)	$25.37	$63.74	+151.2% NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nan… is 2.5× more expensive
End-to-end time (lower is better)	12.43s	10.12s	−18.6% NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nan… is 18.6% faster
Price per 1M tokens (in / out)	$0.32 / $0.89	$0.05 / $0.20
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NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B (Reasoning) vs DeepSeek V3 (Dec '24): 4.7% more intelligence, 151.2% more cost to run the AA benchmark, and 18.6% faster end-to-end.

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Today's Pareto frontier

Against the frontier

DeepSeek V3 (Dec '24) 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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