Head-to-Head Model Comparison

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

Benchmarks, API Token Pricing, Context Window & Speed Comparison

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NVIDIA

Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B

Penalaran Bobot Terbuka

Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B dari NVIDIA adalah model AI yang dirancang untuk penalaran rantai pemikiran (Chain-of-Thought) berbobot terbuka yang sangat efisien, menghadirkan jendela konteks 256K, kecepatan 155 token/detik, indeks kecerdasan

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

Model Dasar Bobot Terbuka

Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B dari NVIDIA adalah model AI yang dirancang untuk self-hosting di server pribadi, fine-tuning, dan kedaulatan data penuh, menghadirkan jendela konteks 262K, kecepatan 130 token/detik, indeks kecerdasan 45/100, serta t

Intelligence Index45 / 100

Input Token:

$0.10 / 1M

Output Token:

$0.25 / 1M

Context Window:

262.1K tokens

SWE-bench Verified:

38%

Perbedaan Utama Sekilas

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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Feature	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

Siapa Unggul di Mana?

At-a-glance decision framework

Coding

Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B

+1.5% SWE-bench lead

Cost

Tied

Identical monthly runtime cost

Speed

Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B

+19% faster generation

Context

Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B

262.1K tokens window

Skor Benchmark Terverifikasi

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

Latensi & Waktu Respons

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

Simulator Biaya Token Interaktif

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

Jendela konteks 256K dengan kapasitas output maksimum hingga 16K token (SWE-bench Verified 39.5% · GPQA Diamond 55.2%)
Kecepatan generasi tinggi 155 token/detik dengan latensi token pertama (TTFT) hanya 270 ms
Bobot terbuka (30B (3B MoE)) yang siap di-hosting mandiri di GPU lokal atau cloud privat melalui vLLM dan Ollama

Considerations & Trade-offs

Membutuhkan infrastruktur GPU dengan kapasitas VRAM yang memadai untuk eksekusi lokal presisi penuh
Pada tugas pembuktian ilmiah tingkat ekstrem, model penalaran berat kelas atas memberikan kedalaman lebih tinggi

Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B · Strengths & Key Advantages

Jendela konteks 262K dengan kapasitas output maksimum hingga 16K token (SWE-bench Verified 38% · GPQA Diamond 54%)
Kecepatan generasi tinggi 130 token/detik dengan latensi token pertama (TTFT) hanya 320 ms
Bobot terbuka (30B (3B MoE)) yang siap di-hosting mandiri di GPU lokal atau cloud privat melalui vLLM dan Ollama

Considerations & Trade-offs

Membutuhkan infrastruktur GPU dengan kapasitas VRAM yang memadai untuk eksekusi lokal presisi penuh
Pada tugas pembuktian ilmiah tingkat ekstrem, model penalaran berat kelas atas memberikan kedalaman lebih tinggi

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

Spesifikasi Teknis

Architecture, release timeline, capabilities, and modalities.

Feature	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: Jawaban Cepat (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.

Kesimpulan

Baik Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B (Sangat cocok untuk penalaran rantai pemikiran (Chain-of-Thought) berbobot terbuka yang sangat efisien, sistem RAG perusahaan, dan integrasi API skala produksi.) maupun Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B (Sangat cocok untuk self-hosting di server pribadi, fine-tuning, dan kedaulatan data penuh, sistem RAG perusahaan, dan integrasi API skala produksi.) sangat tangguh: Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B unggul dalam penalaran dan pemrograman, Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B memberikan kecepatan generasi token lebih tinggi, dan Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B lebih hemat biaya untuk penggunaan API skala besar.

Pertanyaan Umum (FAQ)

Mana yang lebih baik untuk coding dan penalaran, Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B atau Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B?+

Dalam indeks kecerdasan gabungan dan benchmark coding, Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B memimpin. Lihat skor SWE-bench dan GPQA di atas untuk detailnya.

Berapa perbandingan harga API Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B vs Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B?+

Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B mengenakan biaya $0.10 / $0.25 per 1M token input/output, sedangkan Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B sebesar $0.10 / $0.25. Secara keseluruhan, Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B lebih hemat biaya.

Model mana yang memiliki jendela konteks lebih besar dan kecepatan lebih tinggi?+

Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B mendukung konteks 256K token dibandingkan 262.1K token pada Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B, sementara Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B unggul dalam kecepatan output token per detik.

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

Ganti & Bandingkan Model Apa Saja

Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B

Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B

Siapa Unggul di Mana?

Skor Benchmark Terverifikasi

Latensi & Waktu Respons

Simulator Biaya Token Interaktif

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

Spesifikasi Teknis

Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B vs Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B: Jawaban Cepat (FAQ)

Kesimpulan

Pertanyaan Umum (FAQ)

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