Side-by-side benchmark comparison across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, and math workflows.
GPT-5.3 Instant is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 87 to 45. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.
GPT-5.3 Instant's sharpest advantage is in coding, where it averages 78.7 against 22. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is LiveCodeBench, 75 to 16.
GPT-5.3 Instant is the reasoning model in the pair, while Nemotron 3 Nano 30B is not. That usually helps on harder chain-of-thought-heavy tests, but it can also mean more latency and more token spend in real use. GPT-5.3 Instant gives you the larger context window at 128K, compared with 32K for Nemotron 3 Nano 30B.
Pick GPT-5.3 Instant if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Nemotron 3 Nano 30B only becomes the better choice if you would rather avoid the extra latency and token burn of a reasoning model.
GPT-5.3 Instant
82.9
Nemotron 3 Nano 30B
39.6
GPT-5.3 Instant
78.7
Nemotron 3 Nano 30B
22
GPT-5.3 Instant
95
Nemotron 3 Nano 30B
45.2
GPT-5.3 Instant
94.2
Nemotron 3 Nano 30B
54
GPT-5.3 Instant
80.8
Nemotron 3 Nano 30B
43.8
GPT-5.3 Instant
96
Nemotron 3 Nano 30B
78
GPT-5.3 Instant
93.4
Nemotron 3 Nano 30B
71.8
GPT-5.3 Instant
97.2
Nemotron 3 Nano 30B
63.7
GPT-5.3 Instant is ahead overall, 87 to 45. The biggest single separator in this matchup is LiveCodeBench, where the scores are 75 and 16.
GPT-5.3 Instant has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 80.8 versus 43.8. Inside this category, HLE is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
GPT-5.3 Instant has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 78.7 versus 22. Inside this category, LiveCodeBench is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
GPT-5.3 Instant has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 97.2 versus 63.7. Inside this category, AIME 2023 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
GPT-5.3 Instant has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 94.2 versus 54. Inside this category, MRCRv2 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
GPT-5.3 Instant has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 82.9 versus 39.6. Inside this category, Terminal-Bench 2.0 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
GPT-5.3 Instant has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 95 versus 45.2. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
GPT-5.3 Instant has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 96 versus 78. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
GPT-5.3 Instant has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 93.4 versus 71.8. Inside this category, MMLU-ProX is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
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