MiniMax M3 vs Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3B

Pick MiniMax M3 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3B only becomes the better choice if multimodal & grounded is the priority or you want the cheaper token bill.

MiniMax M3 is clearly ahead on the provisional aggregate, 76 to 49. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

MiniMax M3's sharpest advantage is in coding, where it averages 67 against 53.5. Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3B does hit back in multimodal & grounded, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.

MiniMax M3 is also the more expensive model on tokens at $0.30 input / $1.20 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. Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3B is the reasoning model in the pair, while MiniMax M3 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. MiniMax M3 gives you the larger context window at 1M, compared with 256K for Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3B.