Head-to-Head Model Comparison

Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B vs Mistral Small 4

Benchmarks, API Token Pricing, Context Window & Speed Comparison

Verificato dal team di ricerca di GetInfoUsUltima verifica: October 2026Politica editoriale

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Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B

Ragionamento a Pesi Aperti

Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B di NVIDIA è un modello di IA progettato per il ragionamento Chain-of-Thought a pesi aperti ad alta efficienza algoritmica, con finestra di contesto da 256K, velocità di 155 token/s, indice di intelligenza di 46/10

Intelligence Index46 / 100

Input Token:

$0.10 / 1M

Output Token:

$0.25 / 1M

Context Window:

256K tokens

SWE-bench Verified:

39.5%

Mistral AI

Mistral Small 4

Inferenza Ultra-Rapida

Mistral Small 4 di Mistral AI è un modello di IA progettato per le interazioni in tempo reale a bassissima latenza e il routing ad alto volume, con finestra di contesto da 256K, velocità di 120 token/s, indice di intelligenza di 48/100 e ta

Intelligence Index48 / 100

Input Token:

$0.10 / 1M

Output Token:

$0.30 / 1M

Context Window:

256K tokens

SWE-bench Verified:

44.5%

Differenze Chiave a Colpo d’Occhio

Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B is 1.1x cheaper for API usage (input + output tokens combined).
Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B is faster at 155 tok/s vs 120 tok/s.
Mistral Small 4 leads on SWE-bench coding (44.5% vs 39.5%).

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Feature	Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B	Mistral Small 4
Intelligence Index Composite reasoning & knowledge score (0-100)	46	48
Provider	NVIDIA	Mistral AI
Input Price Cost per million input tokens	$0.10 / 1M	$0.10 / 1M
Output Price Cost per million output tokens	$0.25 / 1M	$0.30 / 1M
Blended Price Weighted 7:2:1 cache:input:output per 1M	$0.06 / 1M	$0.07 / 1M
Context Window Maximum input + output tokens	256K tokens~384 A4 pages of text	256K tokens~384 A4 pages of text
Max Output Tokens Per single request	16K	16K
Throughput Speed Tokens generated per second	155 tok/s	120 tok/s
SWE-bench Verified Real-world software engineering	39.5%	44.5%
GPQA Diamond Graduate-level reasoning	55.2%	56%
Cached Input Price Prompt caching discount per 1M tokens	$0.02 / 1M	$0.03 / 1M

Chi vince in ogni categoria?

At-a-glance decision framework

Coding

Mistral Small 4

+5.0% SWE-bench lead

Cost

Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B

1.1x cheaper monthly runtime

Speed

Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B

+29% faster generation

Context

Tied

256K tokens window

Punteggi Benchmark Verificati

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

Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3BMistral Small 4

SWE-bench Verified (Autonomous Coding)

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

39.5%vs44.5%

GPQA Diamond (Doctorate-Level Science & Math)

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

55.2%vs56%

MMLU-Pro (Multi-task Language Understanding)

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

76%vs78%

LMSYS Chatbot Arena Elo

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

1295ptsvs1315pts

Terminal-Bench (Agentic Coding & Terminal Use)

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

35%vs38%

AIME (Advanced Math Competition)

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

65%vs66%

Long-Context Reasoning

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

77%vs80%

Generation Speed (Throughput)

Tokens emitted per second during active generation streaming.

155 tok/s vs120 tok/s

Latenza e Tempo di Risposta

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

Mistral Small 40.34s

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

Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B3.50s

Mistral Small 44.51s

Simulatore Interattivo dei Costi Token

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

Mistral Small 4 Monthly API Bill

$0.47 / month

$0.1/1M in · $0.3/1M out

Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B saves approximately $0.06 / month (13%) under this workload.1.1x Savings

Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B · Strengths & Key Advantages

Finestra di contesto da 256K con capacità massima di output fino a 16K token (SWE-bench Verified 39.5% · GPQA Diamond 55.2%)
Throughput elevato di 155 token/secondo con latenza al primo token (TTFT) di soli 270 ms
Pesi aperti (30B (3B MoE)) pronti per il self-hosting locale o su cloud privato tramite vLLM, SGLang o Ollama

Considerations & Trade-offs

Richiede server GPU dedicati con sufficiente memoria VRAM per l’esecuzione locale a piena precisione
Nelle dimostrazioni scientifiche più estreme, i modelli di ragionamento pesante dedicati offrono maggiore profondità

Mistral Small 4 · Strengths & Key Advantages

Finestra di contesto da 256K con capacità massima di output fino a 16K token (SWE-bench Verified 44.5% · GPQA Diamond 56%)
Throughput elevato di 120 token/secondo con latenza al primo token (TTFT) di soli 340 ms
Pesi aperti (24B) pronti per il self-hosting locale o su cloud privato tramite vLLM, SGLang o Ollama

Considerations & Trade-offs

Richiede server GPU dedicati con sufficiente memoria VRAM per l’esecuzione locale a piena precisione
Nelle dimostrazioni scientifiche più estreme, i modelli di ragionamento pesante dedicati offrono maggiore profondità

Token Use & Task Economics

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

Metric	Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B	Mistral Small 4
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	12K

Specifiche Tecniche

Architecture, release timeline, capabilities, and modalities.

Feature	Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B	Mistral Small 4
Official API Model ID (SDK)	nemotron-cascade-2-30b-a3b	mistral-small-4-latest
API Protocol	OpenAI-Compatible REST / vLLM / SGLang / HuggingFace TGI	OpenAI-Compatible REST / vLLM / SGLang / HuggingFace TGI
Release Date	2026-03	2026-03
Knowledge Cutoff	January 2026	January 2026
Architecture	Cascaded Speculative MoE (30B Total / 3B Active)	Next-Gen Compact Multimodal Transformer
Parameters	30B (3B active MoE)	24B
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 256K window
Prompt Cache Policy & TTL	Cached input at $0.02/1M tokens	Cached input at $0.03/1M 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) · Vision (~258–765 tokens per image tile)
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) · 15 GB VRAM (4-bit Quantized) · 52 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, vision
Output Modalities	text	text

Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B vs Mistral Small 4: Risposte Rapide (FAQ)

Which is more intelligent, Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B or Mistral Small 4?

Mistral Small 4 is more intelligent. It scores 48 compared with 46 on the composite Intelligence Index.

Which model is faster?

Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B is faster, generating 155 tokens per second compared with 120 tokens per second.

Which model is cheaper to run?

Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B is cheaper at $0.06 per 1M tokens blended, compared with $0.07 (7:2:1 cache:input:output ratio).

Which model has lower latency?

Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B has lower latency, with a time to first token of 0.27s compared with 0.34s.

Verdetto

Sia Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B (Ideale per il ragionamento Chain-of-Thought a pesi aperti ad alta efficienza algoritmica, sistemi RAG aziendali e integrazioni API scalabili.) sia Mistral Small 4 (Ideale per le interazioni in tempo reale a bassissima latenza e il routing ad alto volume, sistemi RAG aziendali e integrazioni API scalabili.) eccellono in produzione: Mistral Small 4 guida nei benchmark di ragionamento e programmazione, Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B garantisce una generazione più rapida e Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B offre il miglior rapporto qualità-prezzo per carichi API elevati.

Domande Frequenti (FAQ)

Quale modello è migliore per coding e ragionamento, Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B o Mistral Small 4?+

Nell’indice di intelligenza composito e nei benchmark di programmazione prevale Mistral Small 4. Consulta i punteggi SWE-bench e GPQA qui sopra per tutti i dettagli.

Qual è la differenza di prezzo API tra Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B e Mistral Small 4?+

Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B costa $0.10 / $0.25 per milione di token di input/output, mentre Mistral Small 4 costa $0.10 / $0.30. Nel costo combinato, Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B risulta più economico.

Quale modello ha la finestra di contesto più ampia e la velocità maggiore?+

Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B supporta 256K token di contesto contro 256K token di Mistral Small 4, mentre Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B offre una velocità di generazione superiore.

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Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B vs Mistral Small 4

Cambia e Confronta Qualsiasi Modello

Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B

Mistral Small 4

Chi vince in ogni categoria?

Punteggi Benchmark Verificati

Latenza e Tempo di Risposta

Simulatore Interattivo dei Costi Token

Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B · Strengths & Key Advantages

Considerations & Trade-offs

Mistral Small 4 · Strengths & Key Advantages

Considerations & Trade-offs

Token Use & Task Economics

Specifiche Tecniche

Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B vs Mistral Small 4: Risposte Rapide (FAQ)

Verdetto

Domande Frequenti (FAQ)

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