NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B (Reasoning) vs Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct

NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B (Reasoning) vs Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct. A reliable intelligence-versus-cost verdict requires both models' intelligence scores and benchmark-run costs. Missing data is not a performance verdict.

NVIDIANVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B (Reasoning)Off the frontier
Intelligence
8.90
Total cost
$63.7
AlibabaQwen3 VL 235B A22B InstructNot ranked · benchmark data missing
Intelligence
9.90
Total cost
-
Verdict

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A reliable intelligence-versus-cost verdict requires both models' intelligence scores and benchmark-run costs. Missing data is not a performance verdict.

MetricNVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B (Reasoning)Qwen3 VL 235B A22B InstructDifference
Intelligence (higher is better)8.99.9+11.2% Qwen3 VL 235B A22B In… is 11.2% more intelligent
Total AA cost (lower is better)$63.74Not reported— not comparable
End-to-end time (lower is better)10.10s11.56s+14.5% Qwen3 VL 235B A22B In… is 14.5% slower
Price per 1M tokens (in / out)$0.05 / $0.20$0.21 / $1.39
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