Compare/NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B (Reasoning) vs gpt-oss-20b (high)

NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B (Reasoning)vsgpt-oss-20b (high)

Side-by-side comparison of pricing, 12 benchmarks, and generation speed.

NVIDIA

NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B (Reasoning)

Input
$0.05/M
Output
$0.2/M
Speed
123 tok/s
TTFT
0.91s
OpenAI

gpt-oss-20b (high)

Input
$0.05/M
Output
$0.2/M
Speed
185 tok/s
TTFT
0.48s

Winner by Category

Cheaper
Tie
Faster (tok/s)
gpt-oss-20b (high)
Lower Latency
gpt-oss-20b (high)
Benchmarks (7-4)
NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B (Reasoning)

Pricing Comparison

MetricNVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B (Reasoning)gpt-oss-20b (high)
Input ($/M tokens)$0.05$0.05
Output ($/M tokens)$0.2$0.2
Cost for 1M input + 100K output tokens:
NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B (Reasoning)$0.07
gpt-oss-20b (high)$0.07

Speed Comparison

Output Speed (tokens/s) — higher is better
NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B (Reasoning)
123 tok/s
gpt-oss-20b (high)
185 tok/s
Time to First Token (seconds) — lower is better
NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B (Reasoning)
0.91s
gpt-oss-20b (high)
0.48s

Benchmark Comparison

Data from Artificial Analysis API — 12 benchmarks

Intelligence Index
14.214.9
Coding Index
14.420.7
Math Index
91.089.3
GPQA Diamond
75.7%68.8%
MMLU-Pro
79.4%74.8%
LiveCodeBench
74.1%77.7%
AIME 2025
91.0%89.3%
MATH-500
Humanity's Last Exam
10.2%9.8%
SciCode
29.6%34.4%
IFBench
71.1%65.1%
TerminalBench
13.6%10.6%
NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B (Reasoning)7 wins
4 winsgpt-oss-20b (high)

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is cheaper, NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B (Reasoning) or gpt-oss-20b (high)?

Both models have similar pricing. Check the detailed breakdown above for input vs output token costs.

Which model performs better on benchmarks?

NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B (Reasoning) wins 7 out of 12 benchmarks compared to 4 for gpt-oss-20b (high). See the detailed benchmark chart above for per-category results.

Which is faster for real-time applications?

gpt-oss-20b (high) generates tokens faster at 185 tok/s vs 123 tok/s. However, gpt-oss-20b (high) has lower time-to-first-token (0.48s vs 0.91s).

When should I use NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B (Reasoning) vs gpt-oss-20b (high)?

Choose based on your priorities: both are similarly priced, NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B (Reasoning) for stronger benchmark performance, and gpt-oss-20b (high) for faster generation. For latency-sensitive apps, check the TTFT comparison above.