NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B vs Sarvam 30B
Wins 5 of 6 areas
Coding · Reasoning · Facts · Long documents · Following instructions
Wins 0 of 6 areas
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NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B is the stronger all-rounder.Sarvam 30B is cheaper.
Scores updated · 21 tests both models report · How we compare
Where each one wins
Tests won in each of the six 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.
- CodingWriting and fixing software31NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B3 of 4 tests
- ReasoningHard problems that need careful thinking20NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B2 of 3 tests · 1 tie
- FactsGetting facts right instead of making them up20NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B2 of 2 tests
- Long documentsFinding answers in very long texts10NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B1 of 1 test
- Following instructionsDoing exactly what it is asked10NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B1 of 1 test
- AgentsCarrying out multi-step tasks on its own00Even0 each · 1 tie
Agents, 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.
Sarvam 30B costs 46% 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 NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B pulls ahead
- Follows unfamiliar, precisely checkable instructionsIFBench+44.6points ahead
- Avoids making up answers it doesn't knowAA-Omniscience · Non-hallucination+13points ahead
- Graduate-level biology, physics and chemistry questionsGPQA Diamond+12.4points ahead
Where Sarvam 30B pulls ahead
- Recent programming contest problemsLiveCodeBench v6+1.7points ahead
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.
CodingNVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B
- SciCodeNVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B by 11.430.619.2+11.4
- Terminal-Bench HardNVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B by 11.313.62.3+11.3
- SWE-bench VerifiedNVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B by 4.838.834+4.8
- LiveCodeBench v6Sarvam 30B by 1.768.370+1.7
ReasoningNVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B
- GPQA DiamondNVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B by 12.475.763.3+12.4
- Humanity's Last ExamNVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B by 3.911.47.5+3.9
- CritPttie0.90.3tie
FactsNVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B
- AA-Omniscience · Non-hallucinationNVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B by 1316.73.7+13
- AA-Omniscience · AccuracyNVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B by 4.717.312.6+4.7
Long documentsNVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B
- AA-LCRNVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B by 38380+38
Following instructionsNVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B
- IFBenchNVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B by 44.671.126.5+44.6
Other results9 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.
- AA-OmniscienceNVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B by 19.9-51.6-71.5+19.9
- MBPPSarvam 30B by 18.973.892.7+18.9
- Arena-Hard-V2NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B by 18.767.749+18.7
- HumanEvalSarvam 30B by 17.17592.1+17.1
- Artificial Analysis Coding IndexNVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B by 6.514.47.9+6.5
- τ²-Bench Telecom (AA run)NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B by 6.440.934.5+6.4
- AIME 2025NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B by 2.599.296.7+2.5
- AA IntelligenceNVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B by 2.38.96.6+2.3
- MMLU-ProSarvam 30B by 1.778.380+1.7
Questions people ask
Which is better, NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B or Sarvam 30B?
NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B wins five of the six areas where both have results: coding, reasoning, facts, long documents and following instructions. Sarvam 30B wins none, but costs 46% less. They are level on agents.
Which is better for coding?
NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B. It wins 3 of the 4 coding tests both models report; Sarvam 30B wins 1.
Which is cheaper?
NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B costs $0.05 per million input tokens and $0.20 per million output tokens; Sarvam 30B costs $0.03 and $0.11. That makes Sarvam 30B about 46% 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 12 tests in the eight capability areas, and a gap under one point (ten on rating-style scales) counts as a tie. The other 9 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.