Head-to-head comparison across 4benchmark categories. Overall scores shown here use BenchLM's provisional ranking lane.
Grok 4.3
79
Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3B
56
Pick Grok 4.3 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3B only becomes the better choice if knowledge is the priority or you want the cheaper token bill.
Coding
+6.2 difference
Knowledge
+21.6 difference
Multimodal
+1.8 difference
Inst. Following
+7.1 difference
Grok 4.3
Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3B
$1.25 / $2.5
$0 / $0
209 t/s
N/A
12.36s
N/A
1M
256K
Pick Grok 4.3 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3B only becomes the better choice if knowledge is the priority or you want the cheaper token bill.
Grok 4.3 is clearly ahead on the provisional aggregate, 79 to 56. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.
Grok 4.3's sharpest advantage is in instruction following, where it averages 81.3 against 74.2. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is GPQA, 90.1% to 72.2%. Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3B does hit back in knowledge, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.
Grok 4.3 is also the more expensive model on tokens at $1.25 input / $2.50 output per 1M tokens, versus $0.00 input / $0.00 output per 1M tokens for Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3B. That is roughly Infinityx on output cost alone. Grok 4.3 gives you the larger context window at 1M, compared with 256K for Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3B.
Grok 4.3 is ahead on BenchLM's provisional leaderboard, 79 to 56. The biggest single separator in this matchup is GPQA, where the scores are 90.1% and 72.2%.
Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 75.5 versus 53.9. Inside this category, GPQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3B has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 53.5 versus 47.3. Inside this category, SciCode is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Grok 4.3 has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 78.1 versus 76.3. Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3B stays close enough that the answer can still flip depending on your workload.
Grok 4.3 has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 81.3 versus 74.2. Inside this category, IFBench is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
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