1-bit Bonsai 1.7B vs Nemotron 3 Nano 30B

Side-by-side benchmark comparison across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, and math workflows.

Agentic
Coding
Multimodal & Grounded
Reasoning
Knowledge
Instruction Following
Multilingual
Mathematics

1-bit Bonsai 1.7B· Nemotron 3 Nano 30B

Quick Verdict

Pick Nemotron 3 Nano 30B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. 1-bit Bonsai 1.7B only becomes the better choice if its workflow or ecosystem matters more than the raw scoreboard.

Nemotron 3 Nano 30B has the cleaner overall profile here, landing at 42 versus 39. It is a real lead, but still close enough that category-level strengths matter more than the headline number.

Nemotron 3 Nano 30B's sharpest advantage is in mathematics, where it averages 61.1 against 34.4. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is MATH-500, 34.4% to 73%.

Operational tradeoffs

PriceFree*Free*
SpeedN/A152 t/s
TTFTN/A1.90s
Context32K32K

Decision framing

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Benchmark1-bit Bonsai 1.7BNemotron 3 Nano 30B
Agentic
Terminal-Bench 2.038%
BrowseComp43%
OSWorld-Verified39%
Coding
HumanEval49%
SWE-bench Verified26%
SWE-bench Pro27%
Multimodal & Grounded
MMMU-Pro38%
OfficeQA Pro54%
ReasoningNemotron 3 Nano 30B wins
MuSR45.1%52%
BBH72%
LongBench v251%
MRCRv251%
KnowledgeNemotron 3 Nano 30B wins
GPQA20.7%56%
MMLU57%
SuperGPQA54%
MMLU-Pro65%
HLE1%
FrontierScience54%
SimpleQA54%
Instruction FollowingNemotron 3 Nano 30B wins
IFEval63%78%
Multilingual
MGSM75%
MMLU-ProX70%
MathematicsNemotron 3 Nano 30B wins
MATH-50034.4%73%
AIME 202357%
AIME 202459%
AIME 202558%
HMMT Feb 202353%
HMMT Feb 202455%
HMMT Feb 202554%
BRUMO 202556%
Frequently Asked Questions (5)

Which is better, 1-bit Bonsai 1.7B or Nemotron 3 Nano 30B?

Nemotron 3 Nano 30B is ahead overall, 42 to 39. The biggest single separator in this matchup is MATH-500, where the scores are 34.4% and 73%.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, 1-bit Bonsai 1.7B or Nemotron 3 Nano 30B?

Nemotron 3 Nano 30B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 44.5 versus 20.7. Inside this category, GPQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for math, 1-bit Bonsai 1.7B or Nemotron 3 Nano 30B?

Nemotron 3 Nano 30B has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 61.1 versus 34.4. Inside this category, MATH-500 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, 1-bit Bonsai 1.7B or Nemotron 3 Nano 30B?

Nemotron 3 Nano 30B has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 51.3 versus 45.1. Inside this category, MuSR is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for instruction following, 1-bit Bonsai 1.7B or Nemotron 3 Nano 30B?

Nemotron 3 Nano 30B has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 78 versus 63. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 31, 2026

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