GPT-6.1 Terra (Non-reasoning) vs NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B (Reasoning)

Which is better for the money: GPT-6.1 Terra (Non-reasoning) 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-6.1 Terra (Non-reasoning)Off the frontier

Intelligence: 33.50
Total cost: $154

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

Intelligence: 8.90
Total cost: $63.7

Verdict

Depends on your budget

GPT-6.1 Terra (Non-reasoning) scores 24.6 points higher (33.5 vs 8.9) but costs 2.4× as much to run the benchmark ($154 vs $63.7; both mid-range class). Pick GPT-6.1 Terra (Non-reasoning) when the extra intelligence is worth the premium, otherwise NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B (Reasoni….

Metric	GPT-6.1 Terra (Non-reasoning)	NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B (Reasoning)	Difference
Intelligence (higher is better)	33.5	8.9	−73.4% NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nan… is 73.4% less intelligent
Total AA cost (lower is better)	$153.58	$63.74	−58.5% NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nan… is 58.5% cheaper
End-to-end time (lower is better)	6.51s	10.10s	+55.1% NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nan… is 55.1% slower
Price per 1M tokens (in / out)	$1.00 / $5.00	$0.05 / $0.20
Input modalities	Text, Image	Text

NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B (Reasoning) vs GPT-6.1 Terra (Non-reasoning): 73.4% less intelligence, 58.5% less cost to run the AA benchmark, and 55.1% slower end-to-end.

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Today's Pareto frontier

Against the frontier

GPT-6.1 Terra (Non-reasoning) is off the frontier: at the same or lower cost, GPT-6 Luna (Max) scores 38.10 for $122.
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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