Model Comparison

Nemotron 3 Nano (30B A3B) vs Qwen3-Coder 480B A35B Instruct

Qwen3-Coder 480B A35B Instruct significantly outperforms across most benchmarks.

Performance Benchmarks

Comparative analysis across standard metrics

1 benchmarks

Nemotron 3 Nano (30B A3B) outperforms in 0 benchmarks, while Qwen3-Coder 480B A35B Instruct is better at 1 benchmark (SWE-Bench Verified).

Qwen3-Coder 480B A35B Instruct significantly outperforms across most benchmarks.

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Arena Performance

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Pricing Analysis

Price comparison per million tokens

Cost data unavailable.

Lowest available price from all providers
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NVIDIA
Nemotron 3 Nano (30B A3B)
Input tokens$0.06
Output tokens$0.24
Best providerDeepinfra
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen3-Coder 480B A35B Instruct
Input tokens$0.00
Output tokens$0.00
Best providerUnknown Organization
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Model Size

Parameter count comparison

448.0B diff

Qwen3-Coder 480B A35B Instruct has 448.0B more parameters than Nemotron 3 Nano (30B A3B), making it 1400.0% larger.

NVIDIA
Nemotron 3 Nano (30B A3B)
32.0Bparameters
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen3-Coder 480B A35B Instruct
480.0Bparameters
32.0B
Nemotron 3 Nano (30B A3B)
480.0B
Qwen3-Coder 480B A35B Instruct

Context Window

Maximum input and output token capacity

Only Nemotron 3 Nano (30B A3B) specifies input context (262,144 tokens). Only Nemotron 3 Nano (30B A3B) specifies output context (262,144 tokens).

NVIDIA
Nemotron 3 Nano (30B A3B)
Input262,144 tokens
Output262,144 tokens
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen3-Coder 480B A35B Instruct
Input- tokens
Output- tokens
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License

Usage and distribution terms

Nemotron 3 Nano (30B A3B) is licensed under NVIDIA Open Model License Agreement , while Qwen3-Coder 480B A35B Instruct uses Apache 2.0.

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

Nemotron 3 Nano (30B A3B)

NVIDIA Open Model License Agreement

Open weights

Qwen3-Coder 480B A35B Instruct

Apache 2.0

Open weights

Release Timeline

When each model was launched

Nemotron 3 Nano (30B A3B) was released on 2025-12-15, while Qwen3-Coder 480B A35B Instruct was released on 2025-01-31.

Nemotron 3 Nano (30B A3B) is 11 months newer than Qwen3-Coder 480B A35B Instruct.

Nemotron 3 Nano (30B A3B)

Dec 15, 2025

4 months ago

10mo newer
Qwen3-Coder 480B A35B Instruct

Jan 31, 2025

1.2 years ago

Knowledge Cutoff

When training data ends

Nemotron 3 Nano (30B A3B) has a documented knowledge cutoff of 2025-11-28, while Qwen3-Coder 480B A35B Instruct's cutoff date is not specified.

We can confirm Nemotron 3 Nano (30B A3B)'s training data extends to 2025-11-28, but cannot make a direct comparison without Qwen3-Coder 480B A35B Instruct's cutoff date.

Nemotron 3 Nano (30B A3B)

Nov 2025

Qwen3-Coder 480B A35B Instruct

Outputs Comparison

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Key Takeaways

Larger context window (262,144 tokens)
Higher SWE-Bench Verified score (69.6% vs 38.8%)

Detailed Comparison

FAQ

Common questions about Nemotron 3 Nano (30B A3B) vs Qwen3-Coder 480B A35B Instruct

Qwen3-Coder 480B A35B Instruct significantly outperforms across most benchmarks. Nemotron 3 Nano (30B A3B) is made by NVIDIA and Qwen3-Coder 480B A35B Instruct is made by Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team. The best choice depends on your use case — compare their benchmark scores, pricing, and capabilities above.
Nemotron 3 Nano (30B A3B) scores AIME 2025: 99.2%, WMT24++: 86.2%, MMLU-Pro: 78.3%, GPQA: 75.0%, LiveCodeBench v6: 68.3%. Qwen3-Coder 480B A35B Instruct scores TAU-bench Retail: 77.5%, SWE-Bench Verified: 69.6%, BFCL-v3: 68.7%, Aider-Polyglot: 61.8%, TAU-bench Airline: 60.0%.
Nemotron 3 Nano (30B A3B) supports 262K tokens and Qwen3-Coder 480B A35B Instruct supports an unknown number of tokens. A larger context window lets you process longer documents, conversations, or codebases in a single request.
Key differences include licensing (NVIDIA Open Model License Agreement vs Apache 2.0). See the full comparison above for benchmark-by-benchmark results.
Nemotron 3 Nano (30B A3B) is developed by NVIDIA and Qwen3-Coder 480B A35B Instruct is developed by Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team.