GPT-6 Astra (Low) vs NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B (Reasoning)

Which is better for the money: GPT-6 Astra (Low) 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 Astra (Low)Off the frontier

Intelligence: 45.80
Total cost: $1537

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

Intelligence: 8.90
Total cost: $63.7

Verdict

Depends on your budget

GPT-6 Astra (Low) scores 36.9 points higher (45.8 vs 8.9) but costs 24× as much to run the benchmark ($1537 vs $63.7; premium vs mid-range cost classes). They are not alternatives at one budget: pick GPT-6 Astra (Low) when you need intelligence above 8.9, and NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B (Reasoni… when 8.9 is enough.

Metric	GPT-6 Astra (Low)	NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B (Reasoning)	Difference
Intelligence (higher is better)	45.8	8.9	−80.6% NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nan… is 80.6% less intelligent
Total AA cost (lower is better)	$1,536.78	$63.74	−95.9% NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nan… is 95.9% cheaper
End-to-end time (lower is better)	12.08s	10.10s	−16.4% NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nan… is 16.4% faster
Price per 1M tokens (in / out)	$10.0 / $50.0	$0.05 / $0.20
Input modalities	Text, Image	Text

NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B (Reasoning) vs GPT-6 Astra (Low): 80.6% less intelligence, 95.9% less cost to run the AA benchmark, and 16.4% faster end-to-end.

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Today's Pareto frontier

Against the frontier

GPT-6 Astra (Low) 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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