> Nemotron 3 Nano is an open-weights AI model from NVIDIA, released 15 Dec 2025. API price $0.050 in / $0.20 out per million tokens, 262K context.

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# Nemotron 3 Nano

NVIDIA

Released 15 Dec 2025

Open

Date verified

[Compare](https://themodelindex.org/compare/nemotron-3-nano-vs-gpt-5-2/) [Run it yourself →](https://themodelindex.org/local/) [Announcement](https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-debuts-nemotron-3-family-of-open-models)

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Index score

Not yet evaluated independently

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Core tests taken

no independent results yet

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Versus the frontier at release

$0.050/ $0.20

Price per million tokens

input / output, list price

262K

Context window

tokens it reads at once

## Where it sits · on the frontier

_Chart: Model Index score of every scored model since late 2022, with the best closed and best open model over time_

Not plotted: no index score yet.

## Test results · by area · tick = best by any model

Reasoning & knowledge

no evidence yet

GPQA Diamond

no result

Humanity's Last Exam

no result

Maths

no evidence yet

FrontierMath T1-3

no result

Coding

no evidence yet

SWE-bench Verified

no result

Terminal-Bench

no result

Agents

no evidence yet

APEX-Agents

no result

Novel problems

no evidence yet

ARC-AGI-2

no result

Long tasks

no evidence yet

METR time horizon

no result

Independent results from the Epoch AI benchmarking hub, best reasoning setting. The core tests are shown here; anchor tests also inform the score and can be shown above.

## What others say · rank on each leaderboard

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index

overall capability across ten evaluations

#126

of 207 · 9

Further left is better. Leaderboards measure different things: LMArena is people voting blind between two answers, the others are test scores. Click any row for the source.

## Best at · top three among current models

Not in the top three among current models on any category we track.

Where this model places in the top three of today's models, on category leaderboards and on our core tests.

## Where to use it · prices checked 1 Oct 2026

#### API providers · 4 · per million tokens, in / out

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Crusoe

$0.050 / $0.20 · fp8

cheapest

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Novita

$0.050 / $0.20 · fp4

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D

DeepInfra

$0.050 / $0.20 · fp4

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N

Nebius

$0.060 / $0.24 · fp8

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#### Run it yourself

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Official weights

nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Nano-30B-A3B-BF16

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Provider prices come from OpenRouter's live listing; going direct to a provider can differ. Subscriptions are the lab's own apps.

## Facts and sources

Released

15 Dec 2025

Announcement

[nvidianews.nvidia.com ↗](https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-debuts-nemotron-3-family-of-open-models)

Release entry

Nemotron 3 Nano

Scored as

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Artificial Analysis index

9

Output speed

193 tokens/s

Hugging Face

[nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Nano-30B-A3B-BF16 ↗](https://huggingface.co/nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Nano-30B-A3B-BF16)

## NVIDIA releases · around this one

Nemotron-4 340B

Open

14 JUN 2024

Llama-3.1-Nemotron-70B

Open

15 OCT 2024

Nemotron 3 Nano

Open

15 DEC 2025

Nemotron 3 Super

Open

11 MAR 2026

~132 est.

Nemotron 3 Ultra

Open

4 JUN 2026

index 145

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Source: https://themodelindex.org/models/nemotron-3-nano/ · The Model Index · data as of 2026-10-01