Mistral Medium 3.5 vs NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B (Reasoning)

Which is better for the money: Mistral Medium 3.5 by Mistral 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

MistralMistral Medium 3.5Off the frontier

Intelligence: 14.20
Total cost: $1147

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

Intelligence: 8.90
Total cost: $63.7

Verdict

Depends on your budget

Mistral Medium 3.5 scores 5.3 points higher (14.2 vs 8.9) but costs 18× as much to run the benchmark ($1147 vs $63.7; premium vs mid-range cost classes). They are not alternatives at one budget: pick Mistral Medium 3.5 when you need intelligence above 8.9, and NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B (Reasoni… when 8.9 is enough.

Metric	Mistral Medium 3.5	NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B (Reasoning)	Difference
Intelligence (higher is better)	14.2	8.9	−37.3% NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nan… is 37.3% less intelligent
Total AA cost (lower is better)	$1,146.55	$63.74	−94.4% NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nan… is 94.4% cheaper
End-to-end time (lower is better)	16.98s	10.12s	−40.4% NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nan… is 40.4% faster
Price per 1M tokens (in / out)	$1.50 / $7.50	$0.05 / $0.20
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NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B (Reasoning) vs Mistral Medium 3.5: 37.3% less intelligence, 94.4% less cost to run the AA benchmark, and 40.4% faster end-to-end.

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Today's Pareto frontier

Against the frontier

Mistral Medium 3.5 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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