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Mistral Small 3.2 24B vs Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B

Mistral Small 3.2 24B (Mistral AI) 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 13 September 2026

As of 13 September 2026, Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B holds the stronger ModelCap Index position (#123 vs #125); and Mistral Small 3.2 24B ships open weights.

Which should you choose?

Choose Mistral Small 3.2 24B if…

  • you want to self-host: Mistral Small 3.2 24B ships open weights while Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B is restricted license.
  • you want provider choice — 3 listed API providers against 0.

Choose Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B if…

  • you want the stronger overall ModelCap Index position — #123 against #125 (36.3 vs 36.1 points).
  • you want the more recently listed model — Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B was listed 18 March 2026, Mistral Small 3.2 24B 20 June 2025.

Mistral Small 3.2 24B vs Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B: specs, pricing and context

Specification comparison of Mistral Small 3.2 24B and Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B
FieldMistral Small 3.2 24BMistral AINemotron Cascade 2 30B A3BNVIDIA
ModelCap Index position#125#123
Index score36.136.3
EvidenceMeasuredEstimated
Input price / 1M tokens$0.075Unlisted
Output price / 1M tokens$0.20Unlisted
Context window256K tokens— tokens
Max output tokens16K—
API providers listed30
Weight accessOpen weightsRestricted license
Input modalitiesImage, TextText
First listed20 June 202518 March 2026
PublisherMistral AINVIDIA

Evidence: 2 public benchmark observations across 2 boards · publisher-corpus-prior over 186 held-out anchors (58%); launch card against 3 resolved peers on 11 rows (42%); exceeds every named peer on 3 of 11 rows; optimism haircut 0 from cross-lab-probe; shrunk 3.3 up toward the measured corpus. Prices are the lowest listed API offer per million tokens observed on the OpenRouter catalogue.

Benchmark scores: Mistral Small 3.2 24B vs Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B

Public benchmark boards where Mistral Small 3.2 24B or Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B has a published result
BoardMistral Small 3.2 24BNemotron Cascade 2 30B A3BLeads
Arena codingArena (LMArena)14121402–1422—Only one result
BFCL V4UC Berkeley (Gorilla)37.2Function calling—Only one result
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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Mistral Small 3.2 24B vs Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B: common questions

Is Mistral Small 3.2 24B better than Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B?

Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B ranks higher on the ModelCap Index as of 13 September 2026: #123 against #125. 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 Mistral Small 3.2 24B 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, Mistral Small 3.2 24B or Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B?

Both publish a 256K-token context window.

Which is better for coding, Mistral Small 3.2 24B 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 Mistral Small 3.2 24B and Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B open-weight models?

Mistral Small 3.2 24B: 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 Mistral Small 3.2 24B and Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B?

ModelCap currently lists 3 API providers for Mistral Small 3.2 24B 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 Mistral Small 3.2 24B vs Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B comparison?

Every figure comes from the sealed ModelCap dataset published 13 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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