Seed 1.6 Flash vs Nemotron 3 Nano 30B

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

Seed 1.6 Flash is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 56 to 45. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

Seed 1.6 Flash's sharpest advantage is in multimodal & grounded, where it averages 73.1 against 45.2. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is MMMU-Pro, 74 to 38.

Seed 1.6 Flash is the reasoning model in the pair, while Nemotron 3 Nano 30B 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. Seed 1.6 Flash gives you the larger context window at 256K, compared with 32K for Nemotron 3 Nano 30B.

Quick Verdict

Pick Seed 1.6 Flash if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Nemotron 3 Nano 30B only becomes the better choice if you would rather avoid the extra latency and token burn of a reasoning model.

Agentic

Seed 1.6 Flash

Seed 1.6 Flash

54.5

Nemotron 3 Nano 30B

39.6

52
Terminal-Bench 2.0
38
62
BrowseComp
43
52
OSWorld-Verified
39

Coding

Seed 1.6 Flash

Seed 1.6 Flash

27.6

Nemotron 3 Nano 30B

22

59
HumanEval
49
24
SWE-bench Verified
26
25
LiveCodeBench
16
31
SWE-bench Pro
27

Multimodal & Grounded

Seed 1.6 Flash

Seed 1.6 Flash

73.1

Nemotron 3 Nano 30B

45.2

74
MMMU-Pro
38
72
OfficeQA Pro
54

Reasoning

Seed 1.6 Flash

Seed 1.6 Flash

66.8

Nemotron 3 Nano 30B

54

61
SimpleQA
54
59
MuSR
52
75
BBH
72
70
LongBench v2
51
74
MRCRv2
51

Knowledge

Seed 1.6 Flash

Seed 1.6 Flash

47.3

Nemotron 3 Nano 30B

43.8

65
MMLU
57
64
GPQA
56
62
SuperGPQA
54
60
OpenBookQA
52
65
MMLU-Pro
65
3
HLE
1
57
FrontierScience
54

Instruction Following

Seed 1.6 Flash

Seed 1.6 Flash

81

Nemotron 3 Nano 30B

78

81
IFEval
78

Multilingual

Seed 1.6 Flash

Seed 1.6 Flash

72.8

Nemotron 3 Nano 30B

71.8

76
MGSM
75
71
MMLU-ProX
70

Mathematics

Seed 1.6 Flash

Seed 1.6 Flash

67.1

Nemotron 3 Nano 30B

63.7

64
AIME 2023
57
66
AIME 2024
59
65
AIME 2025
58
60
HMMT Feb 2023
53
62
HMMT Feb 2024
55
61
HMMT Feb 2025
54
63
BRUMO 2025
56
72
MATH-500
73

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, Seed 1.6 Flash or Nemotron 3 Nano 30B?

Seed 1.6 Flash is ahead overall, 56 to 45. The biggest single separator in this matchup is MMMU-Pro, where the scores are 74 and 38.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Seed 1.6 Flash or Nemotron 3 Nano 30B?

Seed 1.6 Flash has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 47.3 versus 43.8. Inside this category, MMLU is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, Seed 1.6 Flash or Nemotron 3 Nano 30B?

Seed 1.6 Flash has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 27.6 versus 22. Inside this category, HumanEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for math, Seed 1.6 Flash or Nemotron 3 Nano 30B?

Seed 1.6 Flash has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 67.1 versus 63.7. Inside this category, AIME 2023 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, Seed 1.6 Flash or Nemotron 3 Nano 30B?

Seed 1.6 Flash has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 66.8 versus 54. Inside this category, MRCRv2 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for agentic tasks, Seed 1.6 Flash or Nemotron 3 Nano 30B?

Seed 1.6 Flash has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 54.5 versus 39.6. Inside this category, BrowseComp is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multimodal and grounded tasks, Seed 1.6 Flash or Nemotron 3 Nano 30B?

Seed 1.6 Flash has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 73.1 versus 45.2. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for instruction following, Seed 1.6 Flash or Nemotron 3 Nano 30B?

Seed 1.6 Flash has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 81 versus 78. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multilingual tasks, Seed 1.6 Flash or Nemotron 3 Nano 30B?

Seed 1.6 Flash has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 72.8 versus 71.8. Inside this category, MGSM is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 12, 2026

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