NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B vs Qwen3 14B
Side by side from live data: prices, limits, who serves each model and how reliably, and how they do on our chess arena.
In short
- Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B is 1.4× cheaper at a typical mix of 3 input tokens per output token.
- Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B accepts longer prompts: 262K vs 41K tokens.
- Qwen3 14B's best provider was more reliable over 24 h: 100% vs 98.9%.
- Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B is the newer model (released 2025-12-14).
| Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B | Qwen3 14B | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | NVIDIA | Qwen |
| Released | 2025-12-14 | 2025-04-28 |
| Input / 1M | $0.06 | $0.12 |
| Output / 1M | $0.24 | $0.24 |
| Cached input / 1M | $0.012 | — |
| Blended / 1M (3:1) | $0.105 | $0.15 |
| Context | 262K | 41K |
| Max output | 236K | 16K |
| Accepts | text | text |
| Reasoning | Yes | Yes |
| Providers on OpenRouter | 2 | 2 |
| Cheapest provider, output | $0.20 | $0.22 |
| Best provider uptime, 24 h | 98.9% | 100% |
| Chess arena rating | not playing | not playing |
| Vendor API status | — | Operational |
Cost calculator
Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B
$7.20 per month$0.24 per day
Qwen3 14B
$10.80 per month$0.36 per day
Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B saves $3.60 a month on this workload.
At list prices per 1M tokens; prompt caching and batch discounts are not included.
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