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Atria Dawn Preview vs Nemotron Nano 9B v2

Atria Dawn Preview leads the LLM Stats Score 52.3 to 18.4.

Shanghai AI Laboratory · NVIDIA · Updated for 2026

Which is better?

Atria Dawn Preview leads the overall LLM Stats Score 52.3 to 18.4, ranking #10 overall.

Based on current LLM Stats indexes, shared benchmarks, pricing, and model metadata for 2026.

Choose Atria Dawn Preview

  • overall performance matters — it scores 52.3 and ranks #10 on LLM Stats
  • your work emphasizes reasoning and coding — it leads those capability indexes
  • you want the most recent training data — it shipped Sep 2026

Choose Nemotron Nano 9B v2

  • you are already invested in the NVIDIA ecosystem

At a glance

The differences that matter most.

Atria Dawn Preview
Shanghai AI Laboratory
Nemotron Nano 9B v2
NVIDIA
Core performance indexes
LLM Stats Score
52.3
#10
18.4
#211
Reasoning
50.5
#12
17.2
#210
Coding
36.2
#22
14.4
#133
Cost, coverage & limits
Benchmark wins
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Input price
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Output price
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Individual benchmarks

12 reported for Atria Dawn Preview · 6 for Nemotron Nano 9B v2

No common benchmarks found

Atria Dawn Preview and Nemotron Nano 9B v2don't have any common benchmark datasets to compare. They may have been evaluated on different testing suites.

Human preference

Blind head-to-head votes and playground preference scores

Model Size

Parameter count comparison

735.1B diff

Atria Dawn Preview has 735.1B more parameters than Nemotron Nano 9B v2, making it 8259.6% larger.

Shanghai AI Laboratory
Atria Dawn Preview
744.0Bparameters
NVIDIA
Nemotron Nano 9B v2
8.9Bparameters
744.0B
Atria Dawn Preview
8.9B
Nemotron Nano 9B v2

License

Usage and distribution terms

Atria Dawn Preview is licensed under MIT, while Nemotron Nano 9B v2 uses NVIDIA Open Model License Agreement .

License differences may affect how you can use these models in commercial or open-source projects.

Atria Dawn Preview

MIT

Open weights

Nemotron Nano 9B v2

NVIDIA Open Model License Agreement

Open weights

Release Timeline

When each model was launched

Atria Dawn Preview was released on 2026-09-11, while Nemotron Nano 9B v2 was released on 2025-08-18.

Atria Dawn Preview is 13 months newer than Nemotron Nano 9B v2.

Atria Dawn Preview

Sep 11, 2026

1 weeks ago

1.1yr newer
Nemotron Nano 9B v2

Aug 18, 2025

1.1 years ago

Knowledge Cutoff

When training data ends

Nemotron Nano 9B v2 has a documented knowledge cutoff of 2024-09-01, while Atria Dawn Preview's cutoff date is not specified.

We can confirm Nemotron Nano 9B v2's training data extends to 2024-09-01, but cannot make a direct comparison without Atria Dawn Preview's cutoff date.

Atria Dawn Preview

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Nemotron Nano 9B v2

Sep 2024

Outputs Comparison

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Judge for yourself.

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FAQ

Common questions about Atria Dawn Preview vs Nemotron Nano 9B v2.

Which is better, Atria Dawn Preview or Nemotron Nano 9B v2?

Atria Dawn Preview leads the LLM Stats Score 52.3 to 18.4. Atria Dawn Preview is made by Shanghai AI Laboratory and Nemotron Nano 9B v2 is made by NVIDIA. The best choice depends on your use case — compare their capability indexes, individual benchmarks, pricing, and limits above.

How does Atria Dawn Preview compare to Nemotron Nano 9B v2 in benchmarks?

Atria Dawn Preview scores DeepSearchQA: 96.0%, BrowseComp: 92.5%, CyberGym: 86.5%, MLE-Bench Lite: 86.2%, WideSearch: 81.9%. Nemotron Nano 9B v2 scores MATH-500: 97.8%, IFEval: 90.3%, AIME 2025: 72.1%, LiveCodeBench: 71.1%, BFCL_v3_MultiTurn: 66.9%.

What are the main differences between Atria Dawn Preview and Nemotron Nano 9B v2?

Key differences include LLM Stats Score (52.3 vs 18.4), licensing (MIT vs NVIDIA Open Model License Agreement ). See the full comparison above for benchmark-by-benchmark results.

Who makes Atria Dawn Preview and Nemotron Nano 9B v2?

Atria Dawn Preview is developed by Shanghai AI Laboratory and Nemotron Nano 9B v2 is developed by NVIDIA.

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