Gemini 3.8 Flash (High) vs NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B (Reasoning)

Which is better for the money: Gemini 3.8 Flash (High) 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 3.8 Flash (High)Off the frontier

Intelligence: 40.90
Total cost: $3770

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

Intelligence: 8.90
Total cost: $63.7

Verdict

Depends on your budget

Gemini 3.8 Flash (High) scores 32.0 points higher (40.9 vs 8.9) but costs 59× as much to run the benchmark ($3770 vs $63.7; flagship vs mid-range cost classes). They are not alternatives at one budget: pick Gemini 3.8 Flash (High) when you need intelligence above 8.9, and NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B (Reasoni… when 8.9 is enough.

Metric	Gemini 3.8 Flash (High)	NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B (Reasoning)	Difference
Intelligence (higher is better)	40.9	8.9	−78.2% NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nan… is 78.2% less intelligent
Total AA cost (lower is better)	$3,769.96	$63.74	−98.3% NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nan… is 98.3% cheaper
End-to-end time (lower is better)	32.40s	10.10s	−68.8% NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nan… is 68.8% faster
Price per 1M tokens (in / out)	$0.75 / $3.75	$0.05 / $0.20
Input modalities	Text, Image, Speech, Video	Text

NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B (Reasoning) vs Gemini 3.8 Flash (High): 78.2% less intelligence, 98.3% less cost to run the AA benchmark, and 68.8% faster end-to-end.

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Today's Pareto frontier

Against the frontier

Gemini 3.8 Flash (High) is off the frontier: at the same or lower cost, Kimi K3.1 Pro scores 55.10 for $3117.
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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