DeepSeek V3 vs Nemotron-4 15B

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

Nemotron-4 15B has the cleaner overall profile here, landing at 27 versus 25. It is a real lead, but still close enough that category-level strengths matter more than the headline number.

Nemotron-4 15B's sharpest advantage is in reasoning, where it averages 50.9 against 24.9. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is MMLU, 88.5% to 54%. 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-4 15B.

Quick Verdict

Pick Nemotron-4 15B 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-4 15B

DeepSeek V3

42

Nemotron-4 15B

46

42%
SWE-bench Verified
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HumanEval
46%

Multimodal & Grounded

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Reasoning

Nemotron-4 15B

DeepSeek V3

24.9

Nemotron-4 15B

50.9

24.9%
SimpleQA
52%
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MuSR
50%

Knowledge

DeepSeek V3

DeepSeek V3

69.6

Nemotron-4 15B

52

59.1%
GPQA
53%
88.5%
MMLU
54%
75.9%
MMLU-Pro
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SuperGPQA
51%
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OpenBookQA
49%

Instruction Following

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Multilingual

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Mathematics

DeepSeek V3

DeepSeek V3

90.2

Nemotron-4 15B

53

39.2%
AIME 2024
56%
90.2%
MATH-500
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AIME 2023
54%
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AIME 2025
55%
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HMMT Feb 2023
50%
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HMMT Feb 2024
52%
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HMMT Feb 2025
51%
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BRUMO 2025
53%

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, DeepSeek V3 or Nemotron-4 15B?

Nemotron-4 15B is ahead overall, 27 to 25. The biggest single separator in this matchup is MMLU, where the scores are 88.5% and 54%.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, DeepSeek V3 or Nemotron-4 15B?

DeepSeek V3 has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 69.6 versus 52. Inside this category, MMLU is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, DeepSeek V3 or Nemotron-4 15B?

Nemotron-4 15B has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 46 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-4 15B?

DeepSeek V3 has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 90.2 versus 53. Inside this category, AIME 2024 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, DeepSeek V3 or Nemotron-4 15B?

Nemotron-4 15B has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 50.9 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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