DeepSeek V3 vs Nemotron 3 Nano 30B

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

Nemotron 3 Nano 30B has the cleaner overall profile here, landing at 28 versus 25. 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 reasoning, where it averages 52.9 against 24.9. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is MMLU, 88.5% to 57%. DeepSeek V3 does hit back in mathematics, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.

DeepSeek V3 gives you the larger context window at 128K, compared with 32K for Nemotron 3 Nano 30B.

Quick Verdict

Pick Nemotron 3 Nano 30B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. DeepSeek V3 only becomes the better choice if mathematics is the priority or you need the larger 128K context window.

Agentic

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Coding

Nemotron 3 Nano 30B

DeepSeek V3

42

Nemotron 3 Nano 30B

49

42%
SWE-bench Verified
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HumanEval
49%

Multimodal & Grounded

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Reasoning

Nemotron 3 Nano 30B

DeepSeek V3

24.9

Nemotron 3 Nano 30B

52.9

24.9%
SimpleQA
54%
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MuSR
52%

Knowledge

DeepSeek V3

DeepSeek V3

69.6

Nemotron 3 Nano 30B

55

59.1%
GPQA
56%
88.5%
MMLU
57%
75.9%
MMLU-Pro
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SuperGPQA
54%
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OpenBookQA
52%

Instruction Following

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Multilingual

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Mathematics

DeepSeek V3

DeepSeek V3

90.2

Nemotron 3 Nano 30B

56

39.2%
AIME 2024
59%
90.2%
MATH-500
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AIME 2023
57%
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AIME 2025
58%
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HMMT Feb 2023
53%
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HMMT Feb 2024
55%
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HMMT Feb 2025
54%
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BRUMO 2025
56%

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, DeepSeek V3 or Nemotron 3 Nano 30B?

Nemotron 3 Nano 30B is ahead overall, 28 to 25. The biggest single separator in this matchup is MMLU, where the scores are 88.5% and 57%.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, DeepSeek V3 or Nemotron 3 Nano 30B?

DeepSeek V3 has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 69.6 versus 55. Inside this category, MMLU is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, DeepSeek V3 or Nemotron 3 Nano 30B?

Nemotron 3 Nano 30B has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 49 versus 42. DeepSeek V3 stays close enough that the answer can still flip depending on your workload.

Which is better for math, DeepSeek V3 or Nemotron 3 Nano 30B?

DeepSeek V3 has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 90.2 versus 56. Inside this category, AIME 2024 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, DeepSeek V3 or Nemotron 3 Nano 30B?

Nemotron 3 Nano 30B has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 52.9 versus 24.9. Inside this category, SimpleQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 17, 2026

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