Muse Spark Open (Xhigh) vs NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B (Reasoning)

Which is better for the money: Muse Spark Open (Xhigh) by Meta 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

MetaMuse Spark Open (Xhigh)Off the frontier

Intelligence: 38.90
Total cost: $1185

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

Intelligence: 8.90
Total cost: $63.7

Verdict

Depends on your budget

Muse Spark Open (Xhigh) scores 30.0 points higher (38.9 vs 8.9) but costs 19× as much to run the benchmark ($1185 vs $63.7; premium vs mid-range cost classes). They are not alternatives at one budget: pick Muse Spark Open (Xhigh) when you need intelligence above 8.9, and NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B (Reasoni… when 8.9 is enough.

Metric	Muse Spark Open (Xhigh)	NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B (Reasoning)	Difference
Intelligence (higher is better)	38.9	8.9	−77.1% NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nan… is 77.1% less intelligent
Total AA cost (lower is better)	$1,185.26	$63.74	−94.6% NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nan… is 94.6% cheaper
End-to-end time (lower is better)	13.03s	10.12s	−22.3% NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nan… is 22.3% faster
Price per 1M tokens (in / out)	$1.25 / $4.25	$0.05 / $0.20
Input modalities	Text, Image, Speech, Video	Text

NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B (Reasoning) vs Muse Spark Open (Xhigh): 77.1% less intelligence, 94.6% less cost to run the AA benchmark, and 22.3% faster end-to-end.

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Today's Pareto frontier

Against the frontier

Muse Spark Open (Xhigh) 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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