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Claude Opus 4.8 vs Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3B

Data verified

Head-to-head evidence from 16 shared benchmark results across 6 categories. Overall scores shown here use BenchLM's provisional ranking lane.

85/100
Margin
35.0pts
← winning
2 category wins1 category wins

Verified leaderboard positions: Claude Opus 4.8 #3; Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3B unranked

Evidence parity. Claude Opus 4.8 and Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3B share 16 comparable benchmark results. 3 of 8 categories are comparable. 37 results are unique to Claude Opus 4.8; 12 to Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3B.

Updated July 12, 2026
Shared results
16
Claude Opus 4.8 only
37
Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3B only
12
Comparable categories
3 / 8

Pick Claude Opus 4.8 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3B only becomes the better choice if knowledge is the priority or you want the cheaper token bill.

Confidence note. This is a partial-evidence comparison with 16 shared benchmark results across 6 evidence categories; 3 of 8 categories currently have scoreable aggregates for both models. Treat the verdict as directional until coverage is more balanced.

Why this result

Claude Opus 4.8 is clearly ahead on the provisional aggregate, 85 to 50. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

Claude Opus 4.8's sharpest advantage is in coding, where it averages 76.4 against 54.8. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is GPQA, 93.6% to 72.2%. Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3B does hit back in knowledge, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.

Claude Opus 4.8 is also the more expensive model on tokens at $5.00 input / $25.00 output per 1M tokens, versus $0.00 input / $0.00 output per 1M tokens for Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3B. That is roughly Infinityx on output cost alone. Claude Opus 4.8 gives you the larger context window at 1M, compared with 256K for Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3B.

Category breakdown

Exact category averages are shown below. Not measured means BenchLM does not have enough sourced public coverage for that model and category.

Category scores and score margins for Claude Opus 4.8 and Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3B
CategoryClaude Opus 4.8ΔNemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3B
CodingClaude Opus 4.876.4Margin 21.6Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3B54.8
KnowledgeClaude Opus 4.862.7Margin 13.7Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3B76.4
MultimodalClaude Opus 4.877.0Margin 0.7Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3B76.3
AgenticClaude Opus 4.880.3MarginNo overlapNemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3BNot measured
MathClaude Opus 4.853.9MarginNo overlapNemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3BNot measured
Inst. FollowingClaude Opus 4.8Not measuredMarginNo overlapNemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3B74.2

Decisive benchmark drivers

The largest measured benchmark gaps in this matchup, with exact reported values.

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A · Claude Opus 4.8B · Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3B
  1. GPQA

    Knowledge
    Source ↗
    A 93.6%B 72.2%
    Winner: Claude Opus 4.8Δ 21.4
    GPQA: Claude Opus 4.8 scored 93.6%; Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3B scored 72.2%. Claude Opus 4.8 wins this benchmark.
  2. CharXiv

    Multimodal
    Source ↗
    A 89.9%B 76.3%
    Winner: Claude Opus 4.8Δ 13.7
    CharXiv: Claude Opus 4.8 scored 89.9%; Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3B scored 76.3%. Claude Opus 4.8 wins this benchmark.

Operational comparison

Runtime and commercial metrics are compared only when both models have a complete sourced value.

MetricClaude Opus 4.8Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3BComparison
Input / output priceUSD per 1M tokensClaude Opus 4.8$5 input / $25 outputNemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3B$0 input / $0 outputNemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3B has the lower combined listed price.
Generation speedtokens per secondClaude Opus 4.8Not availableNemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3BNot availableA complete speed comparison is not available.
First-answer latencyseconds to first tokenClaude Opus 4.8Not availableNemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3BNot availableA complete latency comparison is not available.
Context windowmaximum listed tokensClaude Opus 4.81MNemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3B256KClaude Opus 4.8 lists the larger context window.

Benchmark Deep Dive

Agentic
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3BResult
Terminal-Bench 2.0Source 74.6%Not comparable
BrowseCompSource 84.3%Not comparable
DeepSearchQASource 93.1%Not comparable
OSWorld-VerifiedSource 83.4%Not comparable
Finance Agent v2Source 53.9%Not comparable
GDPval-AASource 1600Not comparable
MCP AtlasSource 82.2%Not comparable
ToolathlonSource 59.9%Not comparable
Gert LabsSource 72.97%Not comparable
AA Agentic IndexSource 47.2%Not comparable
Tau2-TelecomSource 94.4%45.3%Claude Opus 4.8 leads
GDPval-AASource 55.0%Not comparable
ResearchClawBenchSource 21.1%Not comparable
OSWorld 2.0Source 20.6%Not comparable
AA BriefcaseSource 1354Not comparable
AA AutomationBenchSource 48.5%Not comparable
AA EnterpriseOps-GymSource 44.0%Not comparable
AA Harvey LABSource 7.5%Not comparable
AA Tau3 BankingSource 27.6%Not comparable
OSWorldSource 47.4%Not comparable
CodingClaude Opus 4.8 wins
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3BResult
SWE-bench VerifiedSource 88.6%Not comparable
SWE-bench ProSource 69.2%Not comparable
SWE MultilingualSource 84.4%Not comparable
SWE MultimodalSource 38.4%Not comparable
Terminal-Bench 2.0Source 74.6%Not comparable
cursorBench31Source 58.4%Not comparable
cursorBench32Source 62.3%Not comparable
AA Coding IndexSource 74.3%Not comparable
Terminal-Bench HardSource 58.3%8.3%Claude Opus 4.8 leads
AA-SciCodeSource 53.5%27.8%Claude Opus 4.8 leads
FrontierCodeSource 46.5%Not comparable
AA Terminal-Bench 2.1Source 84.6%Not comparable
LiveCodeBenchSource 63.2%Not comparable
SciCodeSource 32%Not comparable
Reasoning
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3BResult
AA-LCRSource 67.7%35.7%Claude Opus 4.8 leads
CritPtSource 20.9%0.0%Claude Opus 4.8 leads
KnowledgeNemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3B wins
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3BResult
GPQASource 93.6%72.2%Claude Opus 4.8 leads
GPQA-DSource 93.6%72.2%Claude Opus 4.8 leads
HLESource 57.9%Not comparable
HLE w/o toolsSource 49.8%Not comparable
Artificial Analysis Intelligence IndexSource 55.7%14.9%Claude Opus 4.8 leads
AA-GPQA DiamondSource 92.0%46.9%Claude Opus 4.8 leads
AA-HLESource 45.7%5.3%Claude Opus 4.8 leads
AA-Omniscience IndexSource 27.4%-56.0%Claude Opus 4.8 leads
AA-Omniscience AccuracySource 46.6%14.8%Claude Opus 4.8 leads
AA-Omniscience Hallucination RateSource 35.9%83.1%Claude Opus 4.8 leads
MMLU-ProSource 77.3%Not comparable
Math
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3BResult
USAMO 2026Source 96.7%Not comparable
FrontierMath v2 (Tiers 1-3)Source 47.241%Not comparable
FrontierMath v2 (Tier 4)Source 31.250%Not comparable
AIME 2025Source 82.1%Not comparable
Multilingual
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3BResult
INCLUDESource 87.6%Not comparable
MultimodalClaude Opus 4.8 wins
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3BResult
OfficeQA ProSource 66.2%Not comparable
ScreenSpot ProSource 87.9%57.8%Claude Opus 4.8 leads
CharXivSource 89.9%76.3%Claude Opus 4.8 leads
CharXiv w/o toolsSource 80.5%Not comparable
Design Arena WebsiteSource 1281Not comparable
MMMUSource 70.8%Not comparable
MMLongBench-DocSource 57.5%Not comparable
Video-MME (w/o subtitle)Source 72.2%Not comparable
AI2D_TESTSource 88.5%Not comparable
RefCOCO (avg)Source 90.5%Not comparable
AA-MMMU-ProSource 53.2%Not comparable
Inst. Following
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3BResult
AA-IFBenchSource 62.2%63.2%Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3B leads
IFBenchSource 74.2%Not comparable
Frequently Asked Questions (4)

Which is better, Claude Opus 4.8 or Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3B?

Claude Opus 4.8 is ahead on BenchLM's provisional leaderboard, 85 to 50. The biggest single separator in this matchup is GPQA, where the scores are 93.6% and 72.2%.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Claude Opus 4.8 or Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3B?

Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 76.4 versus 62.7. Inside this category, AA-Omniscience Index is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, Claude Opus 4.8 or Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3B?

Claude Opus 4.8 has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 76.4 versus 54.8. Inside this category, Terminal-Bench Hard is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multimodal and grounded tasks, Claude Opus 4.8 or Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3B?

Claude Opus 4.8 has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 77 versus 76.3. Inside this category, ScreenSpot Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

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Last updated: July 12, 2026

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