Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite vs NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B (Reasoning)

Which is better for the money: Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite by Google 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

GoogleGemini 3.1 Flash-LiteOff the frontier

Intelligence: 15.60
Total cost: $156

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

Intelligence: 8.90
Total cost: $63.7

Verdict

Depends on your budget

Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite scores 6.7 points higher (15.6 vs 8.9) but costs 2.4× as much to run the benchmark ($156 vs $63.7; both mid-range class). Pick Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite when the extra intelligence is worth the premium, otherwise NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B (Reasoni….

Metric	Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite	NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B (Reasoning)	Difference
Intelligence (higher is better)	15.6	8.9	−42.9% NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nan… is 42.9% less intelligent
Total AA cost (lower is better)	$155.87	$63.74	−59.1% NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nan… is 59.1% cheaper
End-to-end time (lower is better)	6.02s	10.10s	+67.8% NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nan… is 67.8% slower
Price per 1M tokens (in / out)	$0.25 / $1.50	$0.05 / $0.20
Input modalities	Text, Image, Speech, Video	Text

NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B (Reasoning) vs Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite: 42.9% less intelligence, 59.1% less cost to run the AA benchmark, and 67.8% slower end-to-end.

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Today's Pareto frontier

Against the frontier

Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite 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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