Gemini 4 Argon (High) vs NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B (Reasoning)

Which is better for the money: Gemini 4 Argon (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 2026-10-26.

Trade-off

GoogleGemini 4 Argon (High)On the frontier

Intelligence: 52.60
Total cost: $2101

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

Intelligence: 8.90
Total cost: $63.7

Verdict

Depends on your budget

Gemini 4 Argon (High) scores 43.7 points higher (52.6 vs 8.9) but costs 33× as much to run the benchmark ($2101 vs $63.7; flagship vs mid-range cost classes). They are not alternatives at one budget: pick Gemini 4 Argon (High) when you need intelligence above 8.9, and NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B (Reasoni… when 8.9 is enough.

Metric	Gemini 4 Argon (High)	NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B (Reasoning)	Difference
Intelligence (higher is better)	52.6	8.9	−83.1% NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nan… is 83.1% less intelligent
Total AA cost (lower is better)	$2,101.26	$63.74	−97.0% NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nan… is 97.0% cheaper
End-to-end time (lower is better)	58.71s	10.29s	−82.5% NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nan… is 82.5% faster
Price per 1M tokens (in / out)	$2.00 / $10.0	$0.05 / $0.20
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NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B (Reasoning) vs Gemini 4 Argon (High): 83.1% less intelligence, 97.0% less cost to run the AA benchmark, and 82.5% faster end-to-end.

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Today's Pareto frontier

Against the frontier

Gemini 4 Argon (High) is on today's frontier: nothing is both smarter and cheaper.
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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