DeepSeek V4 Flash 0420 (High) vs NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B (Reasoning)

Which is better for the money: DeepSeek V4 Flash 0420 (High) 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 V4 Flash 0420 (High)Off the frontier

Intelligence: 24.40
Total cost: $144

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

Intelligence: 8.90
Total cost: $63.7

Verdict

Depends on your budget

DeepSeek V4 Flash 0420 (High) scores 15.5 points higher (24.4 vs 8.9) but costs 2.3× as much to run the benchmark ($144 vs $63.7; both mid-range class). Pick DeepSeek V4 Flash 0420 (High) when the extra intelligence is worth the premium, otherwise NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B (Reasoni….

Metric	DeepSeek V4 Flash 0420 (High)	NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B (Reasoning)	Difference
Intelligence (higher is better)	24.4	8.9	−63.5% NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nan… is 63.5% less intelligent
Total AA cost (lower is better)	$144.48	$63.74	−55.9% NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nan… is 55.9% cheaper
End-to-end time (lower is better)	Not reported	10.12s	— not comparable
Price per 1M tokens (in / out)	$0.11 / $0.23	$0.05 / $0.20
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NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B (Reasoning) vs DeepSeek V4 Flash 0420 (High): 63.5% less intelligence, 55.9% less cost to run the AA benchmark, and end-to-end time not fully reported.

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Today's Pareto frontier

Against the frontier

DeepSeek V4 Flash 0420 (High) is off the frontier: at the same or lower cost, GPT-6 Luna (Max) scores 38.10 for $122.
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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