Nemotron 3 Nano 30B vs Ministral 3 3B

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

Nemotron 3 Nano 30B is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 45 to 27. 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 mathematics, where it averages 63.7 against 36. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is HumanEval, 49 to 15.

Ministral 3 3B 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. Ministral 3 3B only becomes the better choice if you need the larger 128K context window.

Agentic

Nemotron 3 Nano 30B

Nemotron 3 Nano 30B

39.6

Ministral 3 3B

22.9

38
Terminal-Bench 2.0
19
43
BrowseComp
33
39
OSWorld-Verified
20

Coding

Nemotron 3 Nano 30B

Nemotron 3 Nano 30B

22

Ministral 3 3B

6.2

49
HumanEval
15
26
SWE-bench Verified
8
16
LiveCodeBench
7
27
SWE-bench Pro
5

Multimodal & Grounded

Nemotron 3 Nano 30B

Nemotron 3 Nano 30B

45.2

Ministral 3 3B

30.4

38
MMMU-Pro
25
54
OfficeQA Pro
37

Reasoning

Nemotron 3 Nano 30B

Nemotron 3 Nano 30B

54

Ministral 3 3B

30.1

54
SimpleQA
22
52
MuSR
20
72
BBH
57
51
LongBench v2
32
51
MRCRv2
35

Knowledge

Nemotron 3 Nano 30B

Nemotron 3 Nano 30B

43.8

Ministral 3 3B

24.5

57
MMLU
24
56
GPQA
23
54
SuperGPQA
21
52
OpenBookQA
19
65
MMLU-Pro
48
1
HLE
1
54
FrontierScience
28

Instruction Following

Nemotron 3 Nano 30B

Nemotron 3 Nano 30B

78

Ministral 3 3B

67

78
IFEval
67

Multilingual

Nemotron 3 Nano 30B

Nemotron 3 Nano 30B

71.8

Ministral 3 3B

59.7

75
MGSM
61
70
MMLU-ProX
59

Mathematics

Nemotron 3 Nano 30B

Nemotron 3 Nano 30B

63.7

Ministral 3 3B

36

57
AIME 2023
23
59
AIME 2024
25
58
AIME 2025
24
53
HMMT Feb 2023
19
55
HMMT Feb 2024
21
54
HMMT Feb 2025
20
56
BRUMO 2025
22
73
MATH-500
53

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, Nemotron 3 Nano 30B or Ministral 3 3B?

Nemotron 3 Nano 30B is ahead overall, 45 to 27. The biggest single separator in this matchup is HumanEval, where the scores are 49 and 15.

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

Nemotron 3 Nano 30B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 43.8 versus 24.5. Inside this category, MMLU is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

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

Nemotron 3 Nano 30B has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 22 versus 6.2. Inside this category, HumanEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

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

Nemotron 3 Nano 30B has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 63.7 versus 36. Inside this category, AIME 2023 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

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

Nemotron 3 Nano 30B has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 54 versus 30.1. Inside this category, SimpleQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for agentic tasks, Nemotron 3 Nano 30B or Ministral 3 3B?

Nemotron 3 Nano 30B has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 39.6 versus 22.9. Inside this category, Terminal-Bench 2.0 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multimodal and grounded tasks, Nemotron 3 Nano 30B or Ministral 3 3B?

Nemotron 3 Nano 30B has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 45.2 versus 30.4. Inside this category, OfficeQA Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for instruction following, Nemotron 3 Nano 30B or Ministral 3 3B?

Nemotron 3 Nano 30B has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 78 versus 67. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multilingual tasks, Nemotron 3 Nano 30B or Ministral 3 3B?

Nemotron 3 Nano 30B has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 71.8 versus 59.7. Inside this category, MGSM is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 12, 2026

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