gpt-oss-20b (High) vs NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B (Reasoning)
Which is better for the money: gpt-oss-20b (High) 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.
Clear winner
Verdict
Pick gpt-oss-20b (High)
NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B (Reasoning) vs gpt-oss-20b (High): 1.1% less intelligence, 121.2% more cost to run the AA benchmark, and 27.7% faster end-to-end.
| Metric | gpt-oss-20b (High) | NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B (Reasoning) | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Intelligence (higher is better) | 9.0 | 8.9 | −1.1% NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nan… is 1.1% less intelligent |
| Total AA cost (lower is better) | $28.81 | $63.74 | +121.2% NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nan… is 2.2× more expensive |
| End-to-end time (lower is better) | 13.99s | 10.12s | −27.7% NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nan… is 27.7% faster |
| Price per 1M tokens (in / out) | $0.05 / $0.22 | $0.05 / $0.20 | |
| Input modalities | Text | Text |
Today's Pareto frontier
Against the frontier
- gpt-oss-20b (High) is off the frontier: at the same or lower cost, GPT-6 Luna (Low) scores 21.50 for $10.6.
- 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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