Nemotron 3 Nano 30B vs GPT-4o mini

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

Nemotron 3 Nano 30B is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 52 to 43. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

GPT-4o mini 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. GPT-4o mini only becomes the better choice if coding is the priority or you need the larger 128K context window.

Knowledge

GPT-4o mini

Nemotron 3 Nano 30B

47.5

GPT-4o mini

82

57
MMLU
82
56
GPQA
-
54
SuperGPQA
-
52
OpenBookQA
-
65
MMLU-Pro
-
1
HLE
-

Coding

GPT-4o mini

Nemotron 3 Nano 30B

30.3

GPT-4o mini

87.2

49
HumanEval
87.2
26
SWE-bench Verified
-
16
LiveCodeBench
-

Mathematics

Nemotron 3 Nano 30B
57
AIME 2023
-
59
AIME 2024
-
58
AIME 2025
-
53
HMMT Feb 2023
-
55
HMMT Feb 2024
-
54
HMMT Feb 2025
-
56
BRUMO 2025
-
73
MATH-500
-

Reasoning

Nemotron 3 Nano 30B
54
SimpleQA
-
52
MuSR
-
72
BBH
-

Instruction Following

Nemotron 3 Nano 30B
78
IFEval
-

Multilingual

GPT-4o mini

Nemotron 3 Nano 30B

75

GPT-4o mini

87

75
MGSM
87

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, Nemotron 3 Nano 30B or GPT-4o mini?

Nemotron 3 Nano 30B is ahead overall, 52 to 43. The biggest single separator in this matchup is HumanEval, where the scores are 49 and 87.2.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Nemotron 3 Nano 30B or GPT-4o mini?

GPT-4o mini has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 82 versus 47.5. Inside this category, MMLU is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, Nemotron 3 Nano 30B or GPT-4o mini?

GPT-4o mini has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 87.2 versus 30.3. Inside this category, HumanEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multilingual tasks, Nemotron 3 Nano 30B or GPT-4o mini?

GPT-4o mini has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 87 versus 75. Inside this category, MGSM is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 9, 2026

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