NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B (Reasoning) vs Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B

Which is better for the money: NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B (Reasoning) by NVIDIA or Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B by Alibaba? Intelligence, total benchmark cost, and end-to-end time from Artificial Analysis & other sources, snapshot 2026-10-27.

Trade-off

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

Intelligence: 8.90
Total cost: $63.7

AlibabaQwen3.8 2.4T A95BOff the frontier

Intelligence: 39.90
Total cost: $2632

Verdict

Depends on your budget

Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B scores 31.0 points higher (39.9 vs 8.9) but costs 41× as much to run the benchmark ($2632 vs $63.7; flagship vs mid-range cost classes). They are not alternatives at one budget: pick Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B when you need intelligence above 8.9, and NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B (Reasoni… when 8.9 is enough.

Metric	NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B (Reasoning)	Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B	Difference
Intelligence (higher is better)	8.9	39.9	+348.3% Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B is 4.5× more intelligent
Total AA cost (lower is better)	$63.74	$2,632.05	+4029.4% Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B is 41× more expensive
End-to-end time (lower is better)	10.10s	64.93s	+542.9% Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B is 542.9% slower
Price per 1M tokens (in / out)	$0.05 / $0.20	$2.00 / $6.00
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Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B vs NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B (Reasoning): 348.3% more intelligence, 4029.4% more cost to run the AA benchmark, and 542.9% slower end-to-end.

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Today's Pareto frontier

Against the frontier

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.
Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B is off the frontier: at the same or lower cost, Claude Opus 5.5 (High, Default Fallback) scores 53.60 for $2172.

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