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

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

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

NVIDIA

NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B (Reasoning)

Input
$0.055/M
Output
$0.22/M
Speed
113 tok/s
TTFT
0.95s
OpenAI

gpt-oss-20B (low)

Input
$0.06/M
Output
$0.2/M
Speed
280 tok/s
TTFT
0.45s

Winner by Category

Cheaper
gpt-oss-20B (low)
Faster (tok/s)
gpt-oss-20B (low)
Lower Latency
gpt-oss-20B (low)
Benchmarks (10-1)
NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B (Reasoning)

Pricing Comparison

MetricNVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B (Reasoning)gpt-oss-20B (low)
Input ($/M tokens)$0.055$0.06
Output ($/M tokens)$0.22$0.2
Cost for 1M input + 100K output tokens:
NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B (Reasoning)$0.08
gpt-oss-20B (low)$0.08

Speed Comparison

Output Speed (tokens/s) — higher is better
NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B (Reasoning)
113 tok/s
gpt-oss-20B (low)
280 tok/s
Time to First Token (seconds) — lower is better
NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B (Reasoning)
0.95s
gpt-oss-20B (low)
0.45s

Benchmark Comparison

Data from Artificial Analysis API — 12 benchmarks

Intelligence Index
24.320.8
Coding Index
19.014.4
Math Index
91.062.3
GPQA Diamond
75.7%61.1%
MMLU-Pro
79.4%71.8%
LiveCodeBench
74.1%65.2%
AIME 2025
91.0%62.3%
MATH-500
Humanity's Last Exam
10.2%5.1%
SciCode
29.6%34.0%
IFBench
71.1%57.8%
TerminalBench
13.6%4.5%
NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B (Reasoning)10 wins
1 winsgpt-oss-20B (low)

Frequently Asked Questions

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

gpt-oss-20B (low) is cheaper overall. Its blended price (3:1 input/output ratio) is $0.10/M tokens vs $0.10/M for NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B (Reasoning).

Which model performs better on benchmarks?

NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B (Reasoning) wins 10 out of 12 benchmarks compared to 1 for gpt-oss-20B (low). See the detailed benchmark chart above for per-category results.

Which is faster for real-time applications?

gpt-oss-20B (low) generates tokens faster at 280 tok/s vs 113 tok/s. However, gpt-oss-20B (low) has lower time-to-first-token (0.45s vs 0.95s).

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

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