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GPT-4.1 Mini vs Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B

GPT-4.1 Mini leads Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, 10.2 to 8.9, and Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B costs 7.3x less per output token ($0.22 vs $1.60 per million). Updated October 22, 2026; 40 benchmarks have a result for both.

Replace GPT-4.1 Mini Replace Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B
GPT-4.1 MiniOpenAI
Coding
No data
Overall
31.9
Output $/M
$1.60
17
Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3BNVIDIA
Coding
No data
Overall
No data
Output $/M
$0.22
23
vs boards won of 40 shared

GPT-4.1 Mini or Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B: which to pick

Neither model has a coding score yet, so the two cannot be ranked on coding.

Pick GPT-4.1 Mini for a larger context window (1.05M against 262K tokens) and work measured by LiveCodeBench (Artificial Analysis run) or Terminal-Bench Hard (Artificial Analysis run), where it leads.

Model AGPT-4.1 MiniOpenAINot benchmarkedNo coding benchmark$1.818 per solved taskModel BNemotron 3 Nano 30B A3BNVIDIANot benchmarkedNo coding benchmarkNo cost per solved task
Shared results
40
GPT-4.1 Mini only
48
Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B only
2
Like-for-like categories
7 of 9

Only benchmarks that tested both models count toward a pick; a result only one model has is shown but not compared.

Which one for your work

Each card is decided by one number both models carry. Where only one has it, the card says so and makes no call.

At a glance

Coding index
GPT-4.1 Mini not benchmarked, Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B not benchmarked.
Widest category
Math, 24.7 points apart on average over 4 shared benchmarks.
Widest single gap
AA Math Index: GPT-4.1 Mini 46.3 against Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B 91.0, 44.7 points apart on a 0 to 100 scale.
Output price
GPT-4.1 Mini $1.60 against Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B $0.22 per million output tokens, 7.3x apart.
Context window
GPT-4.1 Mini takes 1.05M tokens, Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B 262K.

Benchmark by benchmark

First the score: boards each model leads, per category, where both have a result. Then every board, a category to a fold; bars are each result on a 0 to 100 scale, so compare the two in a row, not one row with another.

Boards won, where both have a result
CategoryGPT-4.1 MiniBarsNemotron 3 Nano 30B A3BTies
Coding14
Intelligence10
Agentic work10
Reasoning14
Math04
Knowledge14
General127
All shared boards1723
CodingLike-for-likeSix of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index14
Coding benchmarks for GPT-4.1 Mini and Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B
BenchmarkGPT-4.1 MiniNemotron 3 Nano 30B A3BLeader
Aider polyglot32.4%Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
SWE-bench Verified23.9%Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
AA Coding Index20.214.4GPT-4.1 Mini
LiveCodeBench (Vals AI)58.2%Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
LiveCodeBench (Artificial Analysis run)48.3%74.1%Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B
SciCodeNot measured30.6%Only Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B measured
Terminal-Bench Hard (Artificial Analysis run)7.6%13.6%Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B
WeirdML37.6%Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
LMArena Text: coding13671378Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B
LMArena Text: software and IT13601383Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B
Neither model has a result on the other 33 boards here
IntelligenceLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index10
Intelligence benchmarks for GPT-4.1 Mini and Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B
BenchmarkGPT-4.1 MiniNemotron 3 Nano 30B A3BLeader
AA Intelligence Index10.28.9GPT-4.1 Mini
Epoch Capabilities Index134.9Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
Agentic workLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index10
Agentic work benchmarks for GPT-4.1 Mini and Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B
BenchmarkGPT-4.1 MiniNemotron 3 Nano 30B A3BLeader
AA Agentic IndexNot measured1.0Only Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B measured
τ²-Bench Telecom52.9%40.9%GPT-4.1 Mini
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard (BFCL)50.4%Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
Neither model has a result on the other 39 boards here
ReasoningLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index14
Reasoning benchmarks for GPT-4.1 Mini and Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B
BenchmarkGPT-4.1 MiniNemotron 3 Nano 30B A3BLeader
GPQA Diamond67.9%Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
MMMU Pro (Vals AI)70.5%Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
GPQA Diamond (Artificial Analysis run)66.4%75.7%Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B
Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run)5.0%11.4%Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B
GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI run)65.8%Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
ARC-AGI3.5%Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
ARC-AGI-20.0%Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
Chess puzzles1.0%Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
Mystery game puzzles7.0%Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
LMArena Text: hard prompts13491348GPT-4.1 Mini
LMArena Text: expert13381355Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B
LMArena Text: hard prompts in English13621376Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B
LMArena Vision: diagrams1182Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
LMArena Vision: homework1214Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
Kagi LLM Benchmark48.6%Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
Neither model has a result on the other 8 boards here
MathLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index04
Math benchmarks for GPT-4.1 Mini and Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B
BenchmarkGPT-4.1 MiniNemotron 3 Nano 30B A3BLeader
AIME49.4%Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
MATH 500 (Vals AI)88.0%Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
MGSM (Vals AI)87.8%Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
AA Math Index46.391.0Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B
AIME 2025 (Artificial Analysis run)46.3%91.0%Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B
OTIS Mock AIME44.7%Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
FrontierMath, tiers 1 to 36.7%Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
MATH level 587.3%Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
LMArena Text: math13431371Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B
LMArena Text: mathematical work13471375Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B
Neither model has a result on the other 4 boards here
KnowledgeLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index14
Knowledge benchmarks for GPT-4.1 Mini and Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B
BenchmarkGPT-4.1 MiniNemotron 3 Nano 30B A3BLeader
MMLU Pro77.2%Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
LegalBench (Vals AI)78.0%Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
CorpFin (Vals AI)57.9%Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
TaxEval (Vals AI)71.9%Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
MortgageTax (Vals AI)65.5%Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
MedQA (Vals AI)84.6%Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
MMLU Pro (Artificial Analysis run)78.1%79.4%Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B
SimpleQA Verified12.7%Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
LMArena Text: science13281353Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B
LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare13241349Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B
LMArena Text: legal and government13431341GPT-4.1 Mini
LMArena Text: business and finance13221346Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B
PRBench Finance30.4%Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
PRBench Legal30.4%Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
Neither model has a result on the other 6 boards here
Web designDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index6 boards, none shared
Web design benchmarks for GPT-4.1 Mini and Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B
BenchmarkGPT-4.1 MiniNemotron 3 Nano 30B A3BLeader
Design Arena: websites997Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
Design Arena: UI components959Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
Design Arena: game dev1070Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
Design Arena: data viz1034Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
Design Arena: 3D836Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
Design Arena: all code categories993Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
Neither model has a result on the other 3 boards here
GeneralLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index127
General benchmarks for GPT-4.1 Mini and Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B
BenchmarkGPT-4.1 MiniNemotron 3 Nano 30B A3BLeader
IFBench38.3%71.1%Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B
Long context reasoning (AA-LCR)44.0%38.0%GPT-4.1 Mini
DTBench68.8%Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
LMCA21.1%Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
Fiction.LiveBench44.4%Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
LMArena Text13411348Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B
LMArena Text: instruction following13331303GPT-4.1 Mini
LMArena Text: creative writing12991269GPT-4.1 Mini
LMArena Vision1181Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
LMArena Text: English13561377Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B
LMArena Text: non-English13181320Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B
LMArena Text: Chinese13291383Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B
LMArena Text: German13501348GPT-4.1 Mini
LMArena Text: Japanese12901268GPT-4.1 Mini
LMArena Text: Korean12981269GPT-4.1 Mini
LMArena Text: French13581396Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B
LMArena Text: Spanish13191376Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B
LMArena Text: Russian13241304GPT-4.1 Mini
LMArena Text: Polish13261303GPT-4.1 Mini
LMArena Text: multi-turn13541319GPT-4.1 Mini
LMArena Text: longer queries13441300GPT-4.1 Mini
LMArena Text: writing and language13191283GPT-4.1 Mini
LMArena Text: entertainment and media13001293GPT-4.1 Mini
LMArena Vision: English1191Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
LMArena Vision: Chinese1186Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
LMArena Vision: reading text1188Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
LMArena Vision: humor1182Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
LMArena Vision: captioning1174Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
LMArena Vision: recognizing things1187Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
LMArena Vision: creative writing1182Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
Neither model has a result on the other 18 boards here
Image generationNot comparablePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index0 boards, none shared
Image generation benchmarks for GPT-4.1 Mini and Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B
BenchmarkGPT-4.1 MiniNemotron 3 Nano 30B A3BLeader
Neither model has a result on 5 boards here

What each workload costs

Three fixed token mixes at each model's listed price, so per-token rates become a bill.

Chat turn

1K input + 500 output tokens

GPT-4.1 Mini$0.0012Fits in one request
Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B$0.0002Fits in one request

Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B costs less

Repository review

50K input + 3K output tokens

GPT-4.1 Mini$0.025Fits in one request
Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B$0.0034Fits in one request

Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B costs less

Agent loop

200K input + 10K output tokens

GPT-4.1 Mini$0.096Fits in one request
Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B$0.013Fits in one request

Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B costs less

Listed OpenRouter rates, without cache or batch discounts. A workload that does not fit a model's context window would need splitting.

Specification differences

The leading value in a row is marked; a row with a missing value names no leader. Our two rows are marked in red.

Specifications of GPT-4.1 Mini and Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B
SpecificationOpenAI GPT-4.1 MiniNVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B
MakerOpenAINVIDIA
WeightsNo public weights listedOpen weights
ReleasedApril 14, 2025December 14, 2025
Context window1.05M262K
Input $/Mtok$0.40$0.055
Output $/Mtok$1.60$0.22
Coding indexNot benchmarkedNot benchmarked
Independent measurements behind it00
Cost per solved task$1.818Not computable
SourceOpenRouter listingOpenRouter listing

Questions

Is GPT-4.1 Mini better than Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B for coding?

Neither model has a coding score yet, so the two cannot be ranked on coding. Pick GPT-4.1 Mini for a larger context window (1.05M against 262K tokens) and work measured by LiveCodeBench (Artificial Analysis run) or Terminal-Bench Hard (Artificial Analysis run), where it leads.

Which is cheaper, GPT-4.1 Mini or Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B?

GPT-4.1 Mini costs $0.40 per million input tokens and $1.60 per million output tokens; Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B costs $0.055 and $0.22. Cost per solved task is known for GPT-4.1 Mini only.

Which has the bigger context window, GPT-4.1 Mini or Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B?

GPT-4.1 Mini, with 1.05M tokens against 262K.

How many benchmarks is the GPT-4.1 Mini vs Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B comparison based on?

40 benchmarks have a result for both models as of October 22, 2026. GPT-4.1 Mini's coding index rests on 0 independent benchmarks and Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B's on 0. Where only one model has a result, the page says so instead of naming a winner.

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