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Nemotron 3 Nano Omni vs Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct

NVIDIA · released

Wins 5 of 7 areas

Coding · Reasoning · Images and charts · Long documents · Following instructions

Alibaba · released

Wins 0 of 7 areas

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Nemotron 3 Nano Omni is the stronger all-rounder.Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct is cheaper.

Scores updated · 21 tests both models report · How we compare

Where each one wins

Tests won in each of the seven areas where both have results. Each piece is one test, so a longer bar means more evidence; grey means the two scored within a point of each other.

Long documents and following instructions rest on a single test each.

What it costs

Prices per million tokens, roughly 750,000 words. The bars show the cost of a million tokens read plus a million written.

Nemotron 3 Nano Omni$0.30 to read · $0.90 to write$1.20Price from Artificial Analysis
Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct$0.18 to read · $0.70 to write$0.88Price from Alibaba's own price page

Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct costs 27% less for the same work.

The biggest differences

The tests each model wins by the widest margin, up to three each. Scores are out of 100.

Where Nemotron 3 Nano Omni pulls ahead

  • Follows unfamiliar, precisely checkable instructionsIFBench+30.9points aheadNemotron 3 Nano Omni63.2Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct32.3
  • Reasons across sets of long documentsAA-LCR+23points aheadNemotron 3 Nano Omni39.7Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct16.7
  • Reasoning about charts from research papersCharXiv (RQ)+17.2points aheadNemotron 3 Nano Omni63.6Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct46.4

Where Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct pulls ahead

  • Answers hard knowledge questions correctlyAA-Omniscience · Accuracy+5.3points aheadQwen3 VL 8B Instruct20.5Nemotron 3 Nano Omni15.2

Every test, side by side

All 21 tests both models report. The winning score is in its model's colour; marks a score checked independently.

CodingNemotron 3 Nano Omni

Full coding ranking

AgentsEven

Full agents ranking

ReasoningNemotron 3 Nano Omni

Full reasoning ranking

FactsEven

Full facts ranking

Images and chartsNemotron 3 Nano Omni

Full images and charts ranking

Long documentsNemotron 3 Nano Omni
  • AA-LCRNemotron 3 Nano Omni by 2339.716.7+23

Full long documents ranking

Following instructionsNemotron 3 Nano Omni
  • IFBenchNemotron 3 Nano Omni by 30.963.232.3+30.9

Full following instructions ranking

Other results6 tests, not counted

Tests outside the eight areas. They are not counted above: several are summary scores built from other tests, or the same test under another name.

Questions people ask

Which is better, Nemotron 3 Nano Omni or Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct?

Nemotron 3 Nano Omni wins five of the seven areas where both have results: coding, reasoning, images and charts, long documents and following instructions. Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct wins none, but costs 27% less. They are level on agents and facts.

Which is better for coding?

Nemotron 3 Nano Omni. It wins 2 of the 2 coding tests both models report; Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct wins none.

Which is cheaper?

Nemotron 3 Nano Omni costs $0.30 per million input tokens and $0.90 per million output tokens; Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct costs $0.18 and $0.70. That makes Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct about 27% cheaper for the same work.

How do you compare the two?

We use the 21 benchmark tests both models have published scores on. The verdict counts the 15 tests in the eight capability areas, and a gap under one point (ten on rating-style scales) counts as a tie. The other 6 are listed but not counted, because several are summary scores or repeat a test. Each score is the one shown on the model's own page.