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 32. 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 43.3. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is MMLU, 57 to 28.
Ministral 3 8B gives you the larger context window at 128K, compared with 32K for Nemotron 3 Nano 30B.
Pick Nemotron 3 Nano 30B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Ministral 3 8B only becomes the better choice if you need the larger 128K context window.
Nemotron 3 Nano 30B
39.6
Ministral 3 8B
28.9
Nemotron 3 Nano 30B
22
Ministral 3 8B
14.2
Nemotron 3 Nano 30B
45.2
Ministral 3 8B
32.4
Nemotron 3 Nano 30B
54
Ministral 3 8B
36.1
Nemotron 3 Nano 30B
43.8
Ministral 3 8B
28
Nemotron 3 Nano 30B
78
Ministral 3 8B
69
Nemotron 3 Nano 30B
71.8
Ministral 3 8B
61.7
Nemotron 3 Nano 30B
63.7
Ministral 3 8B
43.3
Nemotron 3 Nano 30B is ahead overall, 45 to 32. The biggest single separator in this matchup is MMLU, where the scores are 57 and 28.
Nemotron 3 Nano 30B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 43.8 versus 28. Inside this category, MMLU is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Nemotron 3 Nano 30B has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 22 versus 14.2. Inside this category, HumanEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Nemotron 3 Nano 30B has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 63.7 versus 43.3. Inside this category, AIME 2023 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Nemotron 3 Nano 30B has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 54 versus 36.1. Inside this category, SimpleQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Nemotron 3 Nano 30B has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 39.6 versus 28.9. Inside this category, Terminal-Bench 2.0 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Nemotron 3 Nano 30B has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 45.2 versus 32.4. Inside this category, OfficeQA Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Nemotron 3 Nano 30B has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 78 versus 69. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Nemotron 3 Nano 30B has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 71.8 versus 61.7. Inside this category, MGSM is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
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