Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite vs NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B (Reasoning)

Which is better for the money: Gemini 3.5 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 2026-10-26.

Trade-off

GoogleGemini 3.5 Flash-LiteOff the frontier

Intelligence: 22.20
Total cost: $337

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

Intelligence: 8.90
Total cost: $63.7

Verdict

Depends on your budget

Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite scores 13.3 points higher (22.2 vs 8.9) but costs 5.3× as much to run the benchmark ($337 vs $63.7; both mid-range class). They are not alternatives at one budget: pick Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite when you need intelligence above 8.9, and NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B (Reasoni… when 8.9 is enough.

Metric	Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite	NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B (Reasoning)	Difference
Intelligence (higher is better)	22.2	8.9	−59.9% NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nan… is 59.9% less intelligent
Total AA cost (lower is better)	$337.15	$63.74	−81.1% NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nan… is 81.1% cheaper
End-to-end time (lower is better)	9.50s	10.29s	+8.3% NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nan… is 8.3% slower
Price per 1M tokens (in / out)	$0.30 / $2.50	$0.05 / $0.20
Input modalities	Text, Image, Speech, Video	Text

NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B (Reasoning) vs Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite: 59.9% less intelligence, 81.1% less cost to run the AA benchmark, and 8.3% slower end-to-end.

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Today's Pareto frontier

Against the frontier

Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite is off the frontier: at the same or lower cost, MiMo-V2.6-Pro scores 46.30 for $207.
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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