Mistral Large 3 2512 vs Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B
Mistral Large 3 2512 leads Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, 9.3 to 8.9, and Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B costs 6.8x less per output token ($0.22 vs $1.50 per million). Updated October 23, 2026; 3 benchmarks have a result for both.
Mistral Large 3 2512 or Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B: which to pick
Neither model has a coding score yet, so the two cannot be ranked on coding.
Compare them on price, context and the boards below.
- Shared results
- 3
- Mistral Large 3 2512 only
- 25
- Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B only
- 39
- Like-for-like categories
- 3 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.
Coding
Vibe Coding Index, six public coding benchmarks
No call
Neither has a coding score yet.
One side not measured
Intelligence
AA Intelligence Index
Mistral Large 3 2512
Mistral Large 3 2512 leads, 9.3 against 8.9.
Same board, both measured
Agentic work
AA Agentic Index
No call
Tied at 1.0.
Same board, both measured
Reasoning
GPQA Diamond
No call
Only Mistral Large 3 2512 has a GPQA Diamond result, 68.4%.
Directional only
Math
AIME
No call
Only Mistral Large 3 2512 has a AIME result, 42.9%.
Directional only
Knowledge
MMLU Pro
No call
Only Mistral Large 3 2512 has a MMLU Pro result, 79.8%.
Directional only
Web design
Design Arena: websites
No call
Only Mistral Large 3 2512 has a Design Arena: websites result, 1162.
Directional only
Long documents
Listed context window
No call
Both take 262K tokens.
Listed by OpenRouter
Everyday cost
1K input + 500 output tokens
Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B
Mistral Large 3 2512 $0.0013, Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B $0.0002 per turn.
List prices
Cost per solved task
One SWE-bench Verified task, solved
No call
Only Mistral Large 3 2512 has the number, $0.77.
Directional only
At a glance
- Coding index
- Mistral Large 3 2512 not benchmarked, Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B not benchmarked.
- Widest category
- Coding, 5.7 points apart on average over 1 shared benchmark.
- Widest single gap
- AA Coding Index: Mistral Large 3 2512 20.1 against Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B 14.4, 5.7 points apart on a 0 to 100 scale.
- Output price
- Mistral Large 3 2512 $1.50 against Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B $0.22 per million output tokens, 6.8x apart.
- Context window
- Both take 262K tokens.
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.
| Category | Mistral Large 3 2512 | Bars | Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B | Ties |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coding | 1 | 0 | ||
| Intelligence | 1 | 0 | ||
| Agentic work | 0 | 0 | 1 tie | |
| All shared boards | 2 | 0 | 1 tie |
CodingLike-for-likeSix of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index10
| Benchmark | Mistral Large 3 2512 | Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Coding Index | 20.1 | 14.4 | Mistral Large 3 2512 |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals AI) | 55.3% | Not measured | Only Mistral Large 3 2512 measured |
| SWE-bench Verified (Vals AI) | 41.4% | Not measured | Only Mistral Large 3 2512 measured |
| LiveCodeBench (Artificial Analysis run) | Not measured | 74.1% | Only Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B measured |
| SciCode | Not measured | 30.6% | Only Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B measured |
| Terminal-Bench Hard (Artificial Analysis run) | Not measured | 13.6% | Only Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B measured |
| ALE-Bench | 264.7 | Not measured | Only Mistral Large 3 2512 measured |
| LMArena Text: coding | Not measured | 1378 | Only Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B measured |
| LMArena Text: software and IT | Not measured | 1382 | Only Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 34 boards here | |||
IntelligenceLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index10
| Benchmark | Mistral Large 3 2512 | Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Intelligence Index | 9.3 | 8.9 | Mistral Large 3 2512 |
| Neither model has a result on the other 1 board here | |||
Agentic workLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index00
| Benchmark | Mistral Large 3 2512 | Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Agentic Index | 1.0 | 1.0 | Tie |
| τ²-Bench Telecom | Not measured | 40.9% | Only Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 40 boards here | |||
ReasoningDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index7 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Mistral Large 3 2512 | Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 68.4% | Not measured | Only Mistral Large 3 2512 measured |
| MMMU Pro (Vals AI) | 66.2% | Not measured | Only Mistral Large 3 2512 measured |
| GPQA Diamond (Artificial Analysis run) | Not measured | 75.7% | Only Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B measured |
| Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run) | Not measured | 11.4% | Only Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B measured |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts | Not measured | 1348 | Only Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B measured |
| LMArena Text: expert | Not measured | 1356 | Only Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B measured |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts in English | Not measured | 1376 | Only Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 16 boards here | |||
MathDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index6 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Mistral Large 3 2512 | Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AIME | 42.9% | Not measured | Only Mistral Large 3 2512 measured |
| MGSM (Vals AI) | 85.4% | Not measured | Only Mistral Large 3 2512 measured |
| AA Math Index | Not measured | 91.0 | Only Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B measured |
| AIME 2025 (Artificial Analysis run) | Not measured | 91.0% | Only Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B measured |
| LMArena Text: math | Not measured | 1371 | Only Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B measured |
| LMArena Text: mathematical work | Not measured | 1375 | Only Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 8 boards here | |||
KnowledgeDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index12 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Mistral Large 3 2512 | Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| MMLU Pro | 79.8% | Not measured | Only Mistral Large 3 2512 measured |
| LegalBench (Vals AI) | 79.1% | Not measured | Only Mistral Large 3 2512 measured |
| CaseLaw (Vals AI) | 61.4% | Not measured | Only Mistral Large 3 2512 measured |
| CorpFin (Vals AI) | 61.0% | Not measured | Only Mistral Large 3 2512 measured |
| TaxEval (Vals AI) | 73.1% | Not measured | Only Mistral Large 3 2512 measured |
| MortgageTax (Vals AI) | 52.1% | Not measured | Only Mistral Large 3 2512 measured |
| MedQA (Vals AI) | 82.2% | Not measured | Only Mistral Large 3 2512 measured |
| MMLU Pro (Artificial Analysis run) | Not measured | 79.4% | Only Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B measured |
| LMArena Text: science | Not measured | 1353 | Only Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B measured |
| LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare | Not measured | 1349 | Only Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B measured |
| LMArena Text: legal and government | Not measured | 1341 | Only Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B measured |
| LMArena Text: business and finance | Not measured | 1345 | Only Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 8 boards here | |||
Web designDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index8 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Mistral Large 3 2512 | Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Design Arena: websites | 1162 | Not measured | Only Mistral Large 3 2512 measured |
| Design Arena: UI components | 1099 | Not measured | Only Mistral Large 3 2512 measured |
| Design Arena: game dev | 1080 | Not measured | Only Mistral Large 3 2512 measured |
| Design Arena: data viz | 1137 | Not measured | Only Mistral Large 3 2512 measured |
| Design Arena: 3D | 1100 | Not measured | Only Mistral Large 3 2512 measured |
| Design Arena: all code categories | 1141 | Not measured | Only Mistral Large 3 2512 measured |
| Design Arena: SVG | 992 | Not measured | Only Mistral Large 3 2512 measured |
| Design Arena: ASCII art | 1069 | Not measured | Only Mistral Large 3 2512 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 1 board here | |||
GeneralDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index22 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Mistral Large 3 2512 | Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| SAGE (Vals AI) | 24.6% | Not measured | Only Mistral Large 3 2512 measured |
| IFBench | Not measured | 71.1% | Only Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B measured |
| Long context reasoning (AA-LCR) | Not measured | 38.0% | Only Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B measured |
| DTBench | 65.1% | Not measured | Only Mistral Large 3 2512 measured |
| LMCA | 16.7% | Not measured | Only Mistral Large 3 2512 measured |
| LMArena Text | Not measured | 1348 | Only Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B measured |
| LMArena Text: instruction following | Not measured | 1304 | Only Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B measured |
| LMArena Text: creative writing | Not measured | 1270 | Only Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B measured |
| LMArena Text: English | Not measured | 1378 | Only Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B measured |
| LMArena Text: non-English | Not measured | 1320 | Only Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B measured |
| LMArena Text: Chinese | Not measured | 1383 | Only Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B measured |
| LMArena Text: German | Not measured | 1348 | Only Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B measured |
| LMArena Text: Japanese | Not measured | 1269 | Only Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B measured |
| LMArena Text: Korean | Not measured | 1269 | Only Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B measured |
| LMArena Text: French | Not measured | 1396 | Only Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B measured |
| LMArena Text: Spanish | Not measured | 1376 | Only Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B measured |
| LMArena Text: Russian | Not measured | 1304 | Only Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B measured |
| LMArena Text: Polish | Not measured | 1302 | Only Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B measured |
| LMArena Text: multi-turn | Not measured | 1319 | Only Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B measured |
| LMArena Text: longer queries | Not measured | 1300 | Only Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B measured |
| LMArena Text: writing and language | Not measured | 1284 | Only Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B measured |
| LMArena Text: entertainment and media | Not measured | 1294 | Only Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 26 boards here | |||
Image generationNot comparablePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index0 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Mistral Large 3 2512 | Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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
Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B costs less
Repository review
50K input + 3K output tokens
Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B costs less
Agent loop
200K input + 10K output tokens
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.
| Specification | Mistral Large 3 2512 | NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B |
|---|---|---|
| Maker | Mistral AI | NVIDIA |
| Weights | No public weights listed | Open weights |
| Released | December 1, 2025 | December 14, 2025 |
| Context window | 262K | 262K |
| Input $/Mtok | $0.50 | $0.055 |
| Output $/Mtok | $1.50 | $0.22 |
| Coding index | Not benchmarked | Not benchmarked |
| Independent measurements behind it | 1 | 0 |
| Cost per solved task | $0.77 | Not computable |
| Source | OpenRouter listing | OpenRouter listing |
Questions
Is Mistral Large 3 2512 better than Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B for coding?
Neither model has a coding score yet, so the two cannot be ranked on coding. Compare them on price, context and the boards below.
Which is cheaper, Mistral Large 3 2512 or Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B?
Mistral Large 3 2512 costs $0.50 per million input tokens and $1.50 per million output tokens; Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B costs $0.055 and $0.22. Cost per solved task is known for Mistral Large 3 2512 only.
Which has the bigger context window, Mistral Large 3 2512 or Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B?
Neither: both take 262K tokens.
How many benchmarks is the Mistral Large 3 2512 vs Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B comparison based on?
3 benchmarks have a result for both models as of October 23, 2026. Mistral Large 3 2512's coding index rests on 1 independent benchmark 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.