GPT-5.6 Sol (Xhigh) vs NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B (Reasoning)

Which is better for the money: GPT-5.6 Sol (Xhigh) by OpenAI 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

OpenAIGPT-5.6 Sol (Xhigh)Off the frontier

Intelligence: 44.00
Total cost: $2082

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

Intelligence: 8.90
Total cost: $63.7

Verdict

Depends on your budget

GPT-5.6 Sol (Xhigh) scores 35.1 points higher (44.0 vs 8.9) but costs 33× as much to run the benchmark ($2082 vs $63.7; flagship vs mid-range cost classes). They are not alternatives at one budget: pick GPT-5.6 Sol (Xhigh) when you need intelligence above 8.9, and NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B (Reasoni… when 8.9 is enough.

Metric	GPT-5.6 Sol (Xhigh)	NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B (Reasoning)	Difference
Intelligence (higher is better)	44.0	8.9	−79.8% NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nan… is 79.8% less intelligent
Total AA cost (lower is better)	$2,082.28	$63.74	−96.9% NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nan… is 96.9% cheaper
End-to-end time (lower is better)	62.25s	10.10s	−83.8% NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nan… is 83.8% faster
Price per 1M tokens (in / out)	$4.00 / $20.0	$0.05 / $0.20
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NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B (Reasoning) vs GPT-5.6 Sol (Xhigh): 79.8% less intelligence, 96.9% less cost to run the AA benchmark, and 83.8% faster end-to-end.

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Today's Pareto frontier

Against the frontier

GPT-5.6 Sol (Xhigh) is off the frontier: at the same or lower cost, GPT-6.1 Sol (Max) scores 51.80 for $1082.
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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