Head-to-head comparison
Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B (NVIDIA) and Nemotron 3 Nano Omni (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 17 August 2026
As of 17 August 2026, Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B holds the stronger ModelCap Index position (#181 vs #211); Nemotron 3 Nano Omni is cheaper per output token (Free/1M vs $0.20/1M); and Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B offers the longer context window (262K vs 256K tokens).
Evidence: 3 public benchmark observations across 3 boards · publisher corpus prior · leave-one-anchor-out calibrated. Prices are the lowest listed API offer per million tokens observed on the OpenRouter catalogue.
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Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B ranks higher on the ModelCap Index as of 17 August 2026: #181 against #211. 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.
Nemotron 3 Nano Omni is cheaper on output tokens: Free/1M against $0.20/1M. Input tokens are $0.05/1M for Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B and Free/1M for Nemotron 3 Nano Omni. Prices are the lowest listed API offer ModelCap observed, in USD per million tokens.
Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B has the larger context window: 262K tokens against 256K.
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.
Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B: Restricted license. Nemotron 3 Nano Omni: 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.
ModelCap currently lists 3 API providers for Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B and 1 for Nemotron 3 Nano Omni, from the OpenRouter catalogue snapshot the site serves; each model page lists the providers and their prices.
Every figure comes from the sealed ModelCap dataset published 17 August 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.