Gemma 4 E4B (Reasoning) vs Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B A55B (Reasoning)

Which is better for the money: Gemma 4 E4B (Reasoning) by Google or Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B A55B (Reasoning) by NVIDIA? Intelligence, total benchmark cost, and end-to-end time from Artificial Analysis & other sources, snapshot 2026-10-24.

Trade-off

GoogleGemma 4 E4B (Reasoning)On the open-weights frontier

Intelligence: 8.90
Total cost: $14.7

NVIDIANemotron 3 Ultra 550B A55B (Reasoning)Off the frontier

Intelligence: 22.90
Total cost: $697

Verdict

Depends on your budget

Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B A55B (Reasoning) scores 14.0 points higher (22.9 vs 8.9) but costs 47× as much to run the benchmark ($697 vs $14.7; premium vs budget cost classes). They are not alternatives at one budget: pick Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B A55B (Reasoning) when you need intelligence above 8.9, and Gemma 4 E4B (Reasoning) when 8.9 is enough.

Metric	Gemma 4 E4B (Reasoning)	Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B A55B (Reasoning)	Difference
Intelligence (higher is better)	8.9	22.9	+157.3% Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B… is 2.6× more intelligent
Total AA cost (lower is better)	$14.68	$696.84	+4646.9% Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B… is 47× more expensive
End-to-end time (lower is better)	57.75s	18.94s	−67.2% Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B… is 67.2% faster
Price per 1M tokens (in / out)	$0.02 / $0.10	$0.60 / $2.70
Input modalities	Text, Image, Speech, Video	Text

Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B A55B (Reasoning) vs Gemma 4 E4B (Reasoning): 157.3% more intelligence, 4646.9% more cost to run the AA benchmark, and 67.2% faster end-to-end.

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Today's Pareto frontier

Against the frontier

Gemma 4 E4B (Reasoning) is off the frontier: at the same or lower cost, GPT-6 Luna (Low) scores 21.50 for $10.6.
Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B A55B (Reasoning) is off the frontier: at the same or lower cost, GPT-6.1 Sol (Xhigh) scores 51.00 for $662.

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