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Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B vs Qwen Drive 1.0 4B

Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B (NVIDIA) and Qwen Drive 1.0 4B (Qwen) 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 10 September 2026

As of 10 September 2026, Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B holds the stronger ModelCap Index position (#114 vs #117); and Qwen Drive 1.0 4B ships open weights.

Which should you choose?

Choose Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B if…

  • you want the stronger overall ModelCap Index position — #114 against #117 (38.5 vs 37.6 points).

Choose Qwen Drive 1.0 4B if…

  • you want to self-host: Qwen Drive 1.0 4B ships open weights while Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B is restricted license.
  • you want the more recently listed model — Qwen Drive 1.0 4B was listed 27 August 2026, Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B 18 March 2026.

Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B vs Qwen Drive 1.0 4B: specs, pricing and context

Specification comparison of Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B and Qwen Drive 1.0 4B
FieldNemotron Cascade 2 30B A3BNVIDIAQwen Drive 1.0 4BQwen
ModelCap Index position#114#117
Index score38.537.6
EvidenceEstimatedInherited
Input price / 1M tokensUnlistedUnlisted
Output price / 1M tokensUnlistedUnlisted
Context window— tokens— tokens
Max output tokens——
API providers listed00
Weight accessRestricted licenseOpen weights
Input modalitiesTextText, Image
First listed18 March 202627 August 2026
PublisherNVIDIAQwen

Evidence: publisher-corpus-prior over 184 held-out anchors (56%); launch card against 3 resolved peers on 11 rows (45%); exceeds every named peer on 3 of 11 rows; optimism haircut 0 from cross-lab-probe; shrunk 4.5 up toward the measured corpus · finetune of Qwen/Qwen3.5-4B · finetune (100%). Prices are the lowest listed API offer per million tokens observed on the OpenRouter catalogue.

Benchmark scores: Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B vs Qwen Drive 1.0 4B

Public benchmark boards where Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B or Qwen Drive 1.0 4B has a published result
BoardNemotron Cascade 2 30B A3BQwen Drive 1.0 4BLeads
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=true—Only one result
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=true—Only 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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Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B vs Qwen Drive 1.0 4B: common questions

Is Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B better than Qwen Drive 1.0 4B?

Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B ranks higher on the ModelCap Index as of 10 September 2026: #114 against #117. 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 Qwen Drive 1.0 4B?

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 Qwen Drive 1.0 4B?

Both publish a —-token context window.

Which is better for coding, Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B or Qwen Drive 1.0 4B?

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 Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B and Qwen Drive 1.0 4B open-weight models?

Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B: Restricted license. Qwen Drive 1.0 4B: Open weights. 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 Qwen Drive 1.0 4B?

ModelCap currently lists 0 API providers for Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B and 0 for Qwen Drive 1.0 4B, 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 Qwen Drive 1.0 4B comparison?

Every figure comes from the sealed ModelCap dataset published 10 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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