Grok 3 Mini vs Nemotron 3 Nano 30B

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

Nemotron 3 Nano 30B is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 28 to 23. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

Nemotron 3 Nano 30B's sharpest advantage is in reasoning, where it averages 52.9 against 21.7. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is SimpleQA, 21.7% to 54%. Grok 3 Mini does hit back in knowledge, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.

Grok 3 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. Grok 3 Mini only becomes the better choice if knowledge is the priority or you need the larger 128K context window.

Agentic

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Coding

Nemotron 3 Nano 30B

Grok 3 Mini

41.5

Nemotron 3 Nano 30B

49

41.5%
LiveCodeBench
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HumanEval
49%

Multimodal & Grounded

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Reasoning

Nemotron 3 Nano 30B

Grok 3 Mini

21.7

Nemotron 3 Nano 30B

52.9

21.7%
SimpleQA
54%
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MuSR
52%

Knowledge

Grok 3 Mini

Grok 3 Mini

74.1

Nemotron 3 Nano 30B

55

66.2%
GPQA
56%
78.9%
MMLU-Pro
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MMLU
57%
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SuperGPQA
54%
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OpenBookQA
52%

Instruction Following

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Multilingual

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Mathematics

Nemotron 3 Nano 30B

Grok 3 Mini

39.7

Nemotron 3 Nano 30B

56

39.7%
AIME 2024
59%
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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, Grok 3 Mini or Nemotron 3 Nano 30B?

Nemotron 3 Nano 30B is ahead overall, 28 to 23. The biggest single separator in this matchup is SimpleQA, where the scores are 21.7% and 54%.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Grok 3 Mini or Nemotron 3 Nano 30B?

Grok 3 Mini has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 74.1 versus 55. Inside this category, GPQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, Grok 3 Mini or Nemotron 3 Nano 30B?

Nemotron 3 Nano 30B has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 49 versus 41.5. Grok 3 Mini stays close enough that the answer can still flip depending on your workload.

Which is better for math, Grok 3 Mini or Nemotron 3 Nano 30B?

Nemotron 3 Nano 30B has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 56 versus 39.7. Inside this category, AIME 2024 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, Grok 3 Mini or Nemotron 3 Nano 30B?

Nemotron 3 Nano 30B has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 52.9 versus 21.7. Inside this category, SimpleQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 17, 2026

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