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Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3B vs Qwen 3.6 Max (preview)

Updated August 10, 2026. Public scores include evidence status and uncertainty. They are not guarantees for a specific workload.

Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3B

NVIDIA

43.4/100

Estimated · Public rank #163

90% interval 31.9–54.9

Qwen 3.6 Max (preview)

Alibaba

59.4/100

Supported · Public rank #59

90% interval 40.6–78.2

Qwen 3.6 Max (preview) has the higher public score estimate, 59.38 versus 43.37, but the 90% score intervals overlap. Treat that as a lead, not a settled winner.

1 results are shared. Category rows based on different benchmark sets are marked directional and do not name a winner.

Which one for your work

Recommendations appear only when a shared evidence basis or an explicit operating constraint supports the call. Secondary and unsupported use cases stay disclosed below the initial list.

No workload recommendation clears the current evidence threshold.

Use the matched evidence, workload costs, and sourced specifications below instead of treating a point score as a universal answer.

Show secondary and unsupported calls

  • Coding work

    Code generation, repair, and software-engineering tasks

    Not enough matched evidence

    The category averages use different weighted benchmark sets, so they are directional rather than like-for-like.

    Confidence: limited

  • Agentic work

    Tool use, computer use, and multi-step task completion

    Not enough matched evidence

    No shared weighted benchmark basis supports a winner.

    Confidence: limited

  • Long documents

    Prompts that approach the documented context limit

    No clear pick

    The documented context windows are equal.

    Confidence: documented

  • Chat turn cost

    1K fresh input + 500 output tokens

    Not enough matched evidence

    A complete comparable API-rate estimate is not available for both models.

    Confidence: listed-rates

  • Cache-heavy agent loop cost

    200K cached + 20K fresh input + 10K output tokens

    Not enough matched evidence

    A complete comparable API-rate estimate is not available for both models.

    Confidence: listed-rates

  • Repository review cost

    50K fresh input + 3K output tokens

    Not enough matched evidence

    A complete comparable API-rate estimate is not available for both models.

    Confidence: listed-rates

What is actually comparable

Shared results can support a head-to-head reading. Results present for only one model describe coverage, not superiority.

Shared results
1
Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3B only
15
Qwen 3.6 Max (preview) only
8
Like-for-like categories
0 / 8

1 category uses different evidence sets. Those rows remain visible for coverage context but do not name a winner.

Category results, on a stated basis

Each row states whether both averages use the same weighted benchmark set. Directional and not-comparable rows remain visible, but they never receive a winner in this template.

Coding

Directional only
Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3B
32.0
Qwen 3.6 Max (preview)
51.0
Weighted basis
1 vs 2 rows
Reading
Directional only

Agentic

Not comparable
Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3B
Not measured
Qwen 3.6 Max (preview)
65.4
Weighted basis
0 vs 1 rows
Reading
Not comparable

Reasoning

Not comparable
Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3B
Not measured
Qwen 3.6 Max (preview)
Not measured
Weighted basis
0 vs 0 rows
Reading
Not comparable

Knowledge

Not comparable
Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3B
76.3
Qwen 3.6 Max (preview)
73.9
Weighted basis
2 vs 1 rows
Reading
Not comparable

Math

Not comparable
Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3B
Not measured
Qwen 3.6 Max (preview)
18.4
Weighted basis
0 vs 2 rows
Reading
Not comparable

Multilingual

Not comparable
Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3B
Not measured
Qwen 3.6 Max (preview)
Not measured
Weighted basis
0 vs 0 rows
Reading
Not comparable

Multimodal

Not comparable
Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3B
76.3
Qwen 3.6 Max (preview)
Not measured
Weighted basis
1 vs 0 rows
Reading
Not comparable

Instruction following

Not comparable
Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3B
74.2
Qwen 3.6 Max (preview)
Not measured
Weighted basis
1 vs 0 rows
Reading
Not comparable

Shape of the matched evidence

Only shared public evidence is shown. Sparse evidence stays a ruled list rather than being closed into a radar shape.

Too few matched category axes support a radar. The ruled list below shows only shared benchmark results; positions use each benchmark’s normalized display scale when available.

What each workload costs

Three fixed token mixes turn per-token rates into comparable decisions. Each scenario states context fit and whether cached input had to fall back to the published list-input rate.

Chat turn

1K fresh input + 500 output tokens

Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3B
Self-hosted; infrastructure cost varies
Fits in one request
Qwen 3.6 Max (preview)
API rate not published
Fits in one request

Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3B has no comparable published API token rate. Qwen 3.6 Max (preview) has no comparable published API token rate.

Repository review

50K fresh input + 3K output tokens

Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3B
Self-hosted; infrastructure cost varies
Fits in one request
Qwen 3.6 Max (preview)
API rate not published
Fits in one request

Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3B has no comparable published API token rate. Qwen 3.6 Max (preview) has no comparable published API token rate.

Cache-heavy agent loop

200K cached + 20K fresh input + 10K output tokens

Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3B
Self-hosted; infrastructure cost varies
Fits in one request
Cached-input rate unavailable
Qwen 3.6 Max (preview)
API rate not published
Fits in one request
Cached-input rate unavailable

Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3B has no comparable published API token rate. Qwen 3.6 Max (preview) has no comparable published API token rate.

Specification differences

Sourced differences are shown directly. Missing facts stay explicit instead of being inferred from a model name or family.

Context window

Maximum documented context; output-token limits may be lower.

Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3B

256K

Qwen 3.6 Max (preview)

256K

API model ID

Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3B

Not sourced

Qwen 3.6 Max (preview)

Not sourced

Cached-input rate

A missing cached-input rate falls back to the listed input rate only in the stated workload estimate.

Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3B

No comparable hosted API rate

Qwen 3.6 Max (preview)

No comparable hosted API rate

Documented inputs

Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3B

Not sourced

Qwen 3.6 Max (preview)

Not sourced

Documented outputs

Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3B

Not sourced

Qwen 3.6 Max (preview)

Not sourced

Provider availability

Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3B

Not sourced

Qwen 3.6 Max (preview)

Not sourced

Reasoning profile

Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3B

Reasoning

Qwen 3.6 Max (preview)

Reasoning

Weight access

Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3B

Open Weight

Qwen 3.6 Max (preview)

Proprietary

License

Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3B

Open Weight

Qwen 3.6 Max (preview)

Proprietary

Release date

Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3B

2026-04-28

Qwen 3.6 Max (preview)

2026-04-20

If you already use one of these models
Deployment change
The models list different providers, so authentication, endpoint behavior, limits, and feature support may change.
Quality signal
Qwen 3.6 Max (preview) has the higher public score estimate, 59.38 versus 43.37, but the 90% score intervals overlap.
Workload cost
A complete comparable API-rate estimate is not available for both models.
Context tradeoff
Both models list 256K.

Run the same representative tasks against both endpoints before changing production traffic.

Benchmark evidence

The full public result ledger is available for audit without forcing a wide desktop table onto a phone.

Browse raw public benchmark evidence24 rows

Agentic

  • OSWorld

    Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3B47.4%
    Source
    Qwen 3.6 Max (preview)—

    Not directly comparable

  • τ²-bench results

    Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3B45.3%
    Source
    Qwen 3.6 Max (preview)—

    Not directly comparable

  • Terminal-Bench 2.0

    Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3B—
    Qwen 3.6 Max (preview)65.4%
    Source

    Not directly comparable

  • QwenClawBench

    Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3B—
    Qwen 3.6 Max (preview)59.0%
    Source

    Not directly comparable

Coding

  • LiveCodeBench v5

    Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3B63.2%
    Source
    Qwen 3.6 Max (preview)—

    Not directly comparable

  • SciCode

    Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3B32%
    Source
    Qwen 3.6 Max (preview)47%
    Source

    Qwen 3.6 Max (preview) leads this result

  • SWE-bench Pro

    Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3B—
    Qwen 3.6 Max (preview)57.3%
    Source

    Not directly comparable

  • NL2Repo

    Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3B—
    Qwen 3.6 Max (preview)42.9%
    Source

    Not directly comparable

  • Terminal-Bench 2.0

    Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3B—
    Qwen 3.6 Max (preview)65.4%
    Source

    Not directly comparable

Knowledge

  • MMLU-Pro

    Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3B77.3%
    Source
    Qwen 3.6 Max (preview)—

    Not directly comparable

  • GPQA

    Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3B72.2%
    Source
    Qwen 3.6 Max (preview)—

    Not directly comparable

  • GPQA-D

    Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3B72.2%
    Source
    Qwen 3.6 Max (preview)—

    Not directly comparable

  • SuperGPQA

    Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3B—
    Qwen 3.6 Max (preview)73.9%
    Source

    Not directly comparable

Math

  • AIME 2025

    Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3B82.1%
    Source
    Qwen 3.6 Max (preview)—

    Not directly comparable

  • FrontierMath v2 (Tiers 1-3)

    Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3B—
    Qwen 3.6 Max (preview)23.103%
    Source

    Not directly comparable

  • FrontierMath v2 (Tier 4)

    Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3B—
    Qwen 3.6 Max (preview)4.167%
    Source

    Not directly comparable

Multimodal

  • MMMU

    Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3B70.8%
    Source
    Qwen 3.6 Max (preview)—

    Not directly comparable

  • MMLongBench-Doc

    Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3B57.5%
    Source
    Qwen 3.6 Max (preview)—

    Not directly comparable

  • CharXiv

    Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3B76.3%
    Source
    Qwen 3.6 Max (preview)—

    Not directly comparable

  • ScreenSpot Pro

    Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3B57.8%
    Source
    Qwen 3.6 Max (preview)—

    Not directly comparable

  • Video-MME (w/o subtitle)

    Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3B72.2%
    Source
    Qwen 3.6 Max (preview)—

    Not directly comparable

  • AI2D_TEST

    Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3B88.5%
    Source
    Qwen 3.6 Max (preview)—

    Not directly comparable

  • RefCOCO (avg)

    Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3B90.5%
    Source
    Qwen 3.6 Max (preview)—

    Not directly comparable

Instruction following

  • IFBench

    Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3B74.2%
    Source
    Qwen 3.6 Max (preview)—

    Not directly comparable

Frequently asked questions

Which is better, Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3B or Qwen 3.6 Max (preview)?

Qwen 3.6 Max (preview) has the higher public score estimate, 59.38 versus 43.37, but the 90% score intervals overlap. The higher estimate is not a decisive winner because the uncertainty ranges overlap.

Which is better for coding, Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3B or Qwen 3.6 Max (preview)?

The current coding averages use different weighted benchmark sets, so BenchLM does not name a winner from them. Read the shared benchmark rows directly and test the models on the same task set.

Which is better for agentic tasks, Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3B or Qwen 3.6 Max (preview)?

The published evidence does not provide a shared weighted agentic tasks basis for both models, so BenchLM does not name a agentic tasks winner.

Which costs less, Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3B or Qwen 3.6 Max (preview)?

Both models do not have comparable published API token rates, so this page does not name a universal price winner.

Which has the larger context window, Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3B or Qwen 3.6 Max (preview)?

Both models list the same context window, 256K.

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Last updated August 10, 2026

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