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Gemma SEA LION v4.5 E2B IT vs Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B

Gemma SEA LION v4.5 E2B IT (Aisingapore) and Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B (NVIDIA) compared on the ModelCap Index, API price, context window, provider availability, weight access and every public benchmark board they share. Figures are the same ones shown on the live rankings; nothing here is a hidden score.

Snapshot as of 9 September 2026

As of 9 September 2026, Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B holds the stronger ModelCap Index position (#108 vs #110); and Gemma SEA LION v4.5 E2B IT ships open weights.

Which should you choose?

Choose Gemma SEA LION v4.5 E2B IT if…

  • you want to self-host: Gemma SEA LION v4.5 E2B IT ships open weights while Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B is restricted license.
  • you want the more recently listed model — Gemma SEA LION v4.5 E2B IT was listed 18 May 2026, Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B 18 March 2026.

Choose Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B if…

  • you want the stronger overall ModelCap Index position — #108 against #110 (38.4 vs 38.1 points).

Gemma SEA LION v4.5 E2B IT vs Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B: specs, pricing and context

Specification comparison of Gemma SEA LION v4.5 E2B IT and Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B
FieldGemma SEA LION v4.5 E2B ITAisingaporeNemotron Cascade 2 30B A3BNVIDIA
ModelCap Index position#110#108
Index score38.138.4
EvidenceInheritedEstimated
Input price / 1M tokensUnlistedUnlisted
Output price / 1M tokensUnlistedUnlisted
Context window— tokens— tokens
Max output tokens——
API providers listed00
Weight accessOpen weightsRestricted license
Input modalitiesText, Image, AudioText
First listed18 May 202618 March 2026
PublisherAisingaporeNVIDIA

Evidence: finetune of google/gemma-4-E2B-it · finetune (100%) · publisher-corpus-prior over 182 held-out anchors (57%); launch card against 3 resolved peers on 11 rows (43%); exceeds every named peer on 3 of 11 rows; optimism haircut 0 from cross-lab-probe; shrunk 4.9 up toward the measured corpus. Prices are the lowest listed API offer per million tokens observed on the OpenRouter catalogue.

Benchmark scores: Gemma SEA LION v4.5 E2B IT vs Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B

Public benchmark boards where Gemma SEA LION v4.5 E2B IT or Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B has a published result
BoardGemma SEA LION v4.5 E2B ITNemotron Cascade 2 30B A3BLeads
AA Terminal-Bench 2.1Artificial Analysis—20.6%terminal-bench:2.1:terminus-2:e2b:pass-at-1:3-repeats:source-model="Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B":reasoning=trueOnly one result
AA τ²-Bench TelecomArtificial Analysis—53.2%tau2:telecom:dual-control:pass-at-1:3-repeats:source-model="Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B":reasoning=trueOnly one result
AA Humanity's Last ExamArtificial Analysis—12.0%hle:may-2025:text-only-2158:no-tools:pass-at-1:source-model="Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B":reasoning=trueOnly one result

Scores are the sources' own published figures for each model's best evaluated configuration; ModelCap never re-runs a benchmark.

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Gemma SEA LION v4.5 E2B IT vs Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B: common questions

Is Gemma SEA LION v4.5 E2B IT better than Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B?

Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B ranks higher on the ModelCap Index as of 9 September 2026: #108 against #110. That is a capability ranking built from public benchmark evidence with published uncertainty; whether it is "better" for you also depends on price, context and where you can run it. Their published uncertainty intervals overlap, so the rank difference alone does not establish a reliable capability advantage for your workload.

Is Gemma SEA LION v4.5 E2B IT cheaper than Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B?

At least one of the two has no listed API price on ModelCap right now, so no price comparison is made.

Which has the bigger context window, Gemma SEA LION v4.5 E2B IT or Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B?

Both publish a —-token context window.

Which is better for coding, Gemma SEA LION v4.5 E2B IT or Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B?

The two models do not share a coding benchmark board on ModelCap yet, so no head-to-head coding score is published; the ModelCap Index position is the closest overall signal.

Are Gemma SEA LION v4.5 E2B IT and Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B open-weight models?

Gemma SEA LION v4.5 E2B IT: Open weights. Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B: Restricted license. Open weights mean the checkpoint can be downloaded and self-hosted under its licence; API-only models are available solely through hosted endpoints.

Where can I run Gemma SEA LION v4.5 E2B IT and Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B?

ModelCap currently lists 0 API providers for Gemma SEA LION v4.5 E2B IT and 0 for Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B, from the OpenRouter catalogue snapshot the site serves; each model page lists the providers and their prices.

How current is this Gemma SEA LION v4.5 E2B IT vs Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B comparison?

Every figure comes from the sealed ModelCap dataset published 9 September 2026; the page re-renders within a minute of each data refresh, and the ModelCap Index positions are the same ones shown on the live rankings.

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