Mistral Small 4 (Reasoning) vs NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B (Reasoning)
Which is better for the money: Mistral Small 4 (Reasoning) 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 2026-10-26.
Clear winner
Verdict
Pick Mistral Small 4 (Reasoning)
NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B (Reasoning) vs Mistral Small 4 (Reasoning): 21.2% less intelligence, 41.6% more cost to run the AA benchmark, and 32.0% faster end-to-end.
| Metric | Mistral Small 4 (Reasoning) | NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B (Reasoning) | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Intelligence (higher is better) | 11.3 | 8.9 | −21.2% NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nan… is 21.2% less intelligent |
| Total AA cost (lower is better) | $45.03 | $63.74 | +41.6% NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nan… is 41.6% more expensive |
| End-to-end time (lower is better) | 15.13s | 10.29s | −32.0% NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nan… is 32.0% faster |
| Price per 1M tokens (in / out) | $0.15 / $0.60 | $0.05 / $0.20 | |
| Input modalities | Text, Image | Text |
Today's Pareto frontier
Against the frontier
- Mistral Small 4 (Reasoning) is off the frontier: at the same or lower cost, GPT-6 Luna (Medium) scores 29.90 for $31.2.
- 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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