Head-to-Head Model Comparison

Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B vs Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B

Benchmarks, API Token Pricing, Context Window & Speed Comparison

Revisado por el equipo de investigación de GetInfoUsÚltima revisión: October 2026Política editorial

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NVIDIA

Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B

Razonamiento de Pesos Abiertos

Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B de NVIDIA es un modelo de IA diseñado para razonamiento de cadena de pensamiento con pesos abiertos y alta eficiencia algorítmica, con ventana de contexto de 256K, velocidad de 155 tokens/s, índice de inteligencia

Intelligence Index46 / 100

Input Token:

$0.10 / 1M

Output Token:

$0.25 / 1M

Context Window:

256K tokens

SWE-bench Verified:

39.5%

NVIDIA

Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B

Modelo Base de Pesos Abiertos

Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B de NVIDIA es un modelo de IA diseñado para autoalojamiento en servidores propios, ajuste fino (fine-tuning) y soberanía de datos, con ventana de contexto de 262K, velocidad de 130 tokens/s, índice de inteligencia de

Intelligence Index45 / 100

Input Token:

$0.10 / 1M

Output Token:

$0.25 / 1M

Context Window:

262.1K tokens

SWE-bench Verified:

38%

Diferencias Clave de un Vistazo

Both models cost the same under this workload — choose on capability, not price.
Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B has a larger context window (262K vs 256K tokens).
Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B is faster at 155 tok/s vs 130 tok/s.
Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B leads on SWE-bench coding (39.5% vs 38.0%).

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Característica	Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B	Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B
Intelligence Index Composite reasoning & knowledge score (0-100)	46	45
Provider	NVIDIA	NVIDIA
Input Price Cost per million input tokens	$0.10 / 1M	$0.10 / 1M
Output Price Cost per million output tokens	$0.25 / 1M	$0.25 / 1M
Blended Price Weighted 7:2:1 cache:input:output per 1M	$0.06 / 1M	$0.06 / 1M
Context Window Maximum input + output tokens	256K tokens~384 A4 pages of text	262.1K tokens~393 A4 pages of text
Max Output Tokens Per single request	16K	16K
Throughput Speed Tokens generated per second	155 tok/s	130 tok/s
SWE-bench Verified Real-world software engineering	39.5%	38%
GPQA Diamond Graduate-level reasoning	55.2%	54%
Cached Input Price Prompt caching discount per 1M tokens	$0.02 / 1M	$0.02 / 1M

¿Quién gana en cada área?

At-a-glance decision framework

Código

Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B

+1.5% SWE-bench lead

Costo

Tied

Identical monthly runtime cost

Velocidad

Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B

+19% faster generation

Contexto

Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B

262.1K tokens window

Puntuaciones de Benchmarks Verificadas

Official evaluation metrics verified by independent third-party research labs.

Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3BNemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B

SWE-bench Verified (Autonomous Coding)

Industry benchmark evaluating real-world GitHub issue resolution and multi-file debugging.

39.5%vs38%

GPQA Diamond (Doctorate-Level Science & Math)

Challenging questions created by domain experts to test complex PhD-level reasoning.

55.2%vs54%

MMLU-Pro (Multi-task Language Understanding)

Hardened reasoning and academic knowledge benchmark with reduced lucky-guess probability.

76%vs75%

LMSYS Chatbot Arena Elo

Crowdsourced human preference evaluation based on blind, head-to-head model battles.

1295ptsvs1285pts

Terminal-Bench (Agentic Coding & Terminal Use)

Autonomous multi-step tasks executed inside a real command-line terminal environment.

35%vs34%

AIME (Advanced Math Competition)

American Invitational Mathematics Examination — multi-step Olympiad-level reasoning.

65%vs64%

Long-Context Reasoning

Accuracy when reasoning over very large inputs that fill the model context window.

77%vs76%

Generation Speed (Throughput)

Tokens emitted per second during active generation streaming.

155 tok/s vs130 tok/s

Latencia y Tiempo de Respuesta

Time to first token (TTFT) and estimated end-to-end response time for a typical 500-token response.

Time to First Token (TTFT)Lower is better

Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B0.27s

Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B0.32s

Est. End-to-End Response (500 tokens)TTFT + generation time

Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B3.50s

Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B4.17s

Simulador Interactivo de Costos de Tokens

Adjust sliders to calculate projected monthly cloud API spending with prompt caching discounts.

Daily Input Tokens100K / day

10K500K1M

Daily Output Tokens30K / day

5K150K300K

Prompt Cache Hit Ratio50% cached

0% (Cold)50%90% (Warm)

Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B Monthly API Bill

$0.41 / month

$0.1/1M in · $0.25/1M out

Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B Monthly API Bill

$0.41 / month

$0.1/1M in · $0.25/1M out

These models cost the same under this workload — no savings either way.Break-even

Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B · Strengths & Key Advantages

Ventana de contexto de 256K con hasta 16K tokens de salida máxima (SWE-bench Verified 39.5% · GPQA Diamond 55.2%)
Rendimiento ágil de 155 tokens/segundo con latencia inicial (TTFT) de solo 270 ms
Pesos abiertos (30B (3B MoE)) listos para autoalojamiento local o en nube privada mediante vLLM y Ollama

Considerations & Trade-offs

Requiere infraestructura GPU dedicada con suficiente memoria VRAM para inferencia local sin cuantización
En demostraciones científicas extremas, los modelos de razonamiento pesado de gama alta ofrecen mayor profundidad

Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B · Strengths & Key Advantages

Ventana de contexto de 262K con hasta 16K tokens de salida máxima (SWE-bench Verified 38% · GPQA Diamond 54%)
Rendimiento ágil de 130 tokens/segundo con latencia inicial (TTFT) de solo 320 ms
Pesos abiertos (30B (3B MoE)) listos para autoalojamiento local o en nube privada mediante vLLM y Ollama

Considerations & Trade-offs

Requiere infraestructura GPU dedicada con suficiente memoria VRAM para inferencia local sin cuantización
En demostraciones científicas extremas, los modelos de razonamiento pesado de gama alta ofrecen mayor profundidad

Token Use & Task Economics

Estimated cost and token consumption to complete one representative agentic task.

Metric	Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B	Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B
Cost per Task Estimated USD to finish one task	$0.11	$0.12
Output Tokens / Task Tokens generated per task	28K	28K
Reasoning Tokens / Task Thinking tokens burned per task	11K	10K

Especificaciones Técnicas

Architecture, release timeline, capabilities, and modalities.

Característica	Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B	Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B
Official API Model ID (SDK)	nemotron-cascade-2-30b-a3b	nemotron-3-nano-30b-a3b
API Protocol	OpenAI-Compatible REST / vLLM / SGLang / HuggingFace TGI	OpenAI-Compatible REST / vLLM / SGLang / HuggingFace TGI
Release Date	2026-03	2025-12
Knowledge Cutoff	January 2026	October 2025
Architecture	Cascaded Speculative MoE (30B Total / 3B Active)	Sparse Mixture-of-Experts (30B Total / 3B Active)
Parameters	30B (3B active MoE)	30B (3B active MoE)
Enterprise Rate Limits (RPM / TPM)	Unlimited (Hardware-bound on self-hosted GPU) / 10,000 RPM Cloud · Unlimited local throughput / 10M+ TPM Managed Cloud	Unlimited (Hardware-bound on self-hosted GPU) / 10,000 RPM Cloud · Unlimited local throughput / 10M+ TPM Managed Cloud
Long-Context Tier (>128K/200K)	Flat rate ($0.1/1M in) across full 256K window	Flat rate ($0.1/1M in) across full 262K window
Prompt Cache Policy & TTL	Cached input at $0.02/1M tokens	Cached input at $0.02/1M tokens
Computer Use / GUI Agent	API / CLI Tool-Use & DOM Agent ready (no raw pixel desktop click loop)	API / CLI Tool-Use & DOM Agent ready (no raw pixel desktop click loop)
MCP & Parallel Tool Calling	Native MCP Client/Server ready · Parallel function calling · 100% Strict JSON Schema	Native MCP Client/Server ready · Parallel function calling · 100% Strict JSON Schema
Web Search Grounding & Sandbox	Supported via external Tavily/Exa Search & E2B/Docker Sandbox tools	Supported via external Tavily/Exa Search & E2B/Docker Sandbox tools
Official Fine-Tuning Support	Full Weights SFT, LoRA, QLoRA, DPO & GRPO RL (Unsloth / Axolotl / Llama-Factory)	Full Weights SFT, LoRA, QLoRA, DPO & GRPO RL (Unsloth / Axolotl / Llama-Factory)
Multimodal Token Billing	Text BPE (~4 chars/token)	Text BPE (~4 chars/token)
Quantization & Min GPU VRAM	BF16 / FP16, FP8 Dynamic, INT4 AWQ / GPTQ, GGUF (Q4_K_M / Q8_0) · 19 GB VRAM (4-bit Quantized) · 65 GB VRAM (Native BF16)	BF16 / FP16, FP8 Dynamic, INT4 AWQ / GPTQ, GGUF (Q4_K_M / Q8_0) · 19 GB VRAM (4-bit Quantized) · 65 GB VRAM (Native BF16)
Safety & Frontier Classification	Open-Weights System Card + Customizable Guardrail Layer (Llama Guard / ShieldGemma)	Open-Weights System Card + Customizable Guardrail Layer (Llama Guard / ShieldGemma)
Enterprise Compliance (ZDR/HIPAA/SOC2)	100% Air-Gapped On-Premises / Private VPC · Full HIPAA, GDPR & SOC2 Control	100% Air-Gapped On-Premises / Private VPC · Full HIPAA, GDPR & SOC2 Control
Input Modalities	text	text
Output Modalities	text	text

Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B vs Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B: Respuestas Rápidas (FAQ)

Which is more intelligent, Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B or Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B?

Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B is more intelligent. It scores 46 compared with 45 on the composite Intelligence Index.

Which model is faster?

Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B is faster, generating 155 tokens per second compared with 130 tokens per second.

Which model has lower latency?

Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B has lower latency, with a time to first token of 0.27s compared with 0.32s.

Which model has a larger context window?

Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B has a larger context window, supporting 262.1K tokens compared with 256K tokens.

Veredicto

Tanto Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B (Ideal para razonamiento de cadena de pensamiento con pesos abiertos y alta eficiencia algorítmica, sistemas RAG empresariales y automatización mediante API.) como Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B (Ideal para autoalojamiento en servidores propios, ajuste fino (fine-tuning) y soberanía de datos, sistemas RAG empresariales y automatización mediante API.) destacan en producción: Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B lidera en inteligencia general y programación, Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B ofrece mayor velocidad de generación de tokens y Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B resulta más rentable para cargas de trabajo API de alto volumen.

Preguntas frecuentes

¿Cuál es mejor para programación y razonamiento, Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B o Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B?+

En las pruebas de inteligencia compuesta y resolución de código, Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B obtiene la ventaja. Puedes revisar la tabla SWE-bench y GPQA arriba para comparar cada métrica.

¿Cuánto cuesta la API de Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B frente a Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B?+

Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B cuesta $0.10 / $0.25 por millón de tokens de entrada/salida, mientras que Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B cuesta $0.10 / $0.25. En costo combinado, Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B es la opción más económica.

¿Qué modelo tiene mayor ventana de contexto y menor latencia?+

Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B cuenta con 256K tokens de contexto frente a 262.1K tokens de Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B. En velocidad de inferencia, Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B ofrece un rendimiento superior.

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Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B vs Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B

Cambia y Compara Cualquier Modelo

Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B

Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B

¿Quién gana en cada área?

Puntuaciones de Benchmarks Verificadas

Latencia y Tiempo de Respuesta

Simulador Interactivo de Costos de Tokens

Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B · Strengths & Key Advantages

Considerations & Trade-offs

Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B · Strengths & Key Advantages

Considerations & Trade-offs

Token Use & Task Economics

Especificaciones Técnicas

Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B vs Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B: Respuestas Rápidas (FAQ)

Veredicto

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