Nemotron 3.5 Super VL vs NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B (Reasoning)

Which is better for the money: Nemotron 3.5 Super VL by NVIDIA 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

NVIDIANemotron 3.5 Super VLOff the frontier

Intelligence: 26.50
Total cost: $283

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

Intelligence: 8.90
Total cost: $63.7

Verdict

Depends on your budget

Nemotron 3.5 Super VL scores 17.6 points higher (26.5 vs 8.9) but costs 4.4× as much to run the benchmark ($283 vs $63.7; both mid-range class). They are not alternatives at one budget: pick Nemotron 3.5 Super VL when you need intelligence above 8.9, and NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B (Reasoni… when 8.9 is enough.

Metric	Nemotron 3.5 Super VL	NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B (Reasoning)	Difference
Intelligence (higher is better)	26.5	8.9	−66.4% NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nan… is 66.4% less intelligent
Total AA cost (lower is better)	$282.51	$63.74	−77.4% NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nan… is 77.4% cheaper
End-to-end time (lower is better)	6.35s	10.10s	+59.1% NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nan… is 59.1% slower
Price per 1M tokens (in / out)	$0.23 / $0.57	$0.05 / $0.20
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NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B (Reasoning) vs Nemotron 3.5 Super VL: 66.4% less intelligence, 77.4% less cost to run the AA benchmark, and 59.1% slower end-to-end.

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Today's Pareto frontier

Against the frontier

Nemotron 3.5 Super VL is off the frontier: at the same or lower cost, MiMo-V2.6-Pro scores 46.30 for $207.
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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