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Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B vs GPT-4o-mini

Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B (NVIDIA) and GPT-4o-mini (OpenAI) 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 #126).

Which should you choose?

Choose Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B if…

  • you want the stronger overall ModelCap Index position — #123 against #126 (36.3 vs 35.4 points).
  • AA Terminal-Bench 2.1 is your yardstick — 20.6% against 5.6%.
  • AA Humanity's Last Exam is your yardstick — 12.0% against 4.2%.
  • you want the more recently listed model — Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B was listed 18 March 2026, GPT-4o-mini 18 July 2024.

Choose GPT-4o-mini if…

  • you want provider choice — 2 listed API providers against 0.

Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B vs GPT-4o-mini: specs, pricing and context

Specification comparison of Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B and GPT-4o-mini
FieldNemotron Cascade 2 30B A3BNVIDIAGPT-4o-miniOpenAI
ModelCap Index position#123#126
Index score36.335.4
EvidenceEstimatedMeasured
Input price / 1M tokensUnlisted$0.15
Output price / 1M tokensUnlisted$0.60
Context window— tokens128K tokens
Max output tokens—16K
API providers listed02
Weight accessRestricted licenseAPI only
Input modalitiesTextText, Image, File
First listed18 March 202618 July 2024
PublisherNVIDIAOpenAI

Evidence: 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 · publisher-corpus-prior over 186 held-out anchors (61%); 1 specialist-board observation at 2.1% support (39%); shrunk 21.8 up toward the measured corpus. Prices are the lowest listed API offer per million tokens observed on the OpenRouter catalogue.

Benchmark scores: Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B vs GPT-4o-mini

Public benchmark boards where Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B or GPT-4o-mini has a published result
BoardNemotron Cascade 2 30B A3BGPT-4o-miniLeads
ARC-AGI-2ARC Prize Foundation—0.0%Only one result
AA Terminal-Bench 2.1Artificial Analysis20.6%terminal-bench:2.1:terminus-2:e2b:pass-at-1:3-repeats:source-model="Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B":reasoning=true5.6%terminal-bench:2.1:terminus-2:e2b:pass-at-1:3-repeats:source-model="GPT-4o mini":reasoning=falseNemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B
AA τ²-Bench TelecomArtificial Analysis53.2%tau2:telecom:dual-control:pass-at-1:3-repeats:source-model="Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B":reasoning=true—Only one result
AA Humanity's Last ExamArtificial Analysis12.0%hle:may-2025:text-only-2158:no-tools:pass-at-1:source-model="Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B":reasoning=true4.2%hle:may-2025:text-only-2158:no-tools:pass-at-1:source-model="GPT-4o mini":reasoning=falseNemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B

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

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Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B vs GPT-4o-mini: common questions

Is Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B better than GPT-4o-mini?

Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B ranks higher on the ModelCap Index as of 13 September 2026: #123 against #126. 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 Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B cheaper than GPT-4o-mini?

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, Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B or GPT-4o-mini?

Both publish a —-token context window.

Which is better for coding, Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B or GPT-4o-mini?

AA Terminal-Bench 2.1: Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B 20.6%, GPT-4o-mini 5.6% — Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B leads.

Are Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B and GPT-4o-mini open-weight models?

Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B: Restricted license. GPT-4o-mini: API only. 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 Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B and GPT-4o-mini?

ModelCap currently lists 0 API providers for Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B and 2 for GPT-4o-mini, from the OpenRouter catalogue snapshot the site serves; each model page lists the providers and their prices.

How current is this Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B vs GPT-4o-mini 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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