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

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

Intelligence: 24.20
Total cost: $159

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 (Max) scores 15.3 points higher (24.2 vs 8.9) but costs 2.5× as much to run the benchmark ($159 vs $63.7; both mid-range class). Pick DeepSeek V4 Flash 0420 (Max) when the extra intelligence is worth the premium, otherwise NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B (Reasoni….

Metric	DeepSeek V4 Flash 0420 (Max)	NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B (Reasoning)	Difference
Intelligence (higher is better)	24.2	8.9	−63.2% NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nan… is 63.2% less intelligent
Total AA cost (lower is better)	$159.30	$63.74	−60.0% NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nan… is 60.0% cheaper
End-to-end time (lower is better)	99.21s	10.10s	−89.8% NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nan… is 89.8% faster
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 (Max): 63.2% less intelligence, 60.0% less cost to run the AA benchmark, and 89.8% faster end-to-end.

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Today's Pareto frontier

Against the frontier

DeepSeek V4 Flash 0420 (Max) is off the frontier: at the same or lower cost, Claude Haiku 5.5 (Xhigh) scores 41.20 for $158.
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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