NVIDIANemotron 3 Nano 4B
Nemotron 3 Nano 4B is a NVIDIA open-weights reasoning model, released 16 Mar 2026. Its best configuration ranks #579 of 785 on the BenchLeader Index at 43.1 ±7.4, in the lower half. The ± is the point: 403 other configurations score within that range, so they and this one cannot be told apart on quality alone — price and speed are what separate them. It scores highest in instruction following (59) and lowest in knowledge (30). Last measured 16 Mar 2026.stale: no new result in six months
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- Context
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- Released
- 16 Mar 2026
- Overall index43
- Reasoning41
- Agents & tools40
- Knowledge30
- Instruction following59
- Long context35
- Composite35
How its index has moved
9 Sept 2026 to 21 Oct 2026The index is recomputed from scratch every day, so a line moves when a new benchmark result lands, when a publisher revises a score, or when the models it is normalised against change. Early movement usually means the score is still settling.
Benchmark results
See all LLM benchmarks. One column per reasoning effort. Rank is among every configuration of every model on that benchmark. Hover a score for the run it came from.
Metadata
| Benchmark | not stated | Source | Trend |
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| AA Openness Indexnot in index | 83.3#12 | Artificial Analysis |
Reasoning
| Benchmark | not stated | Source | Trend |
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| GPQA Diamond (AA)not in index | 51.3%#424 | Artificial Analysis | |
| Humanity's Last Exam (AA)not in index | 4.9%#467 | Artificial Analysis | |
| CritPt | 0.0%#315 | Artificial Analysis |
Coding
| Benchmark | not stated | Source | Trend |
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| SciCode (AA)not in index | 16.1%#229 | Artificial Analysis | |
| Terminal-Bench 4.0 (AA)not in index | 0.0%#152 | Artificial Analysis | |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (AA)not in index | 3.8%#213 | Artificial Analysis | |
| FrontierCode 1.1 (AA)not in index | 0.0%#70 | Artificial Analysis |
Agents & tools
| Benchmark | not stated | Source | Trend |
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| Terminal-Bench Hard | 6.8%#249 | Artificial Analysis | |
| τ²-Bench Telecom (AA)not in index | 28.1%#269 | Artificial Analysis | |
| GDPval-AA v2.1not in index | 0.0%#124 | Artificial Analysis | |
| AutomationBenchnot in index | 0.5%#209 | Artificial Analysis | |
| GDP.pdf (AA)not in index | 0.4%#216 | Artificial Analysis | |
| Terminal-Bench-Science 0.1 (AA)not in index | 0.0%#72 | Artificial Analysis |
Knowledge
| Benchmark | not stated | Source | Trend |
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| AA-Omniscience | -70.5#516 | Artificial Analysis | |
| AA-Omniscience: accuracynot in index | 9.6%#501 | Artificial Analysis | |
| AA-Omniscience: non-hallucinationnot in index | 11.4%#390 | Artificial Analysis |
Instruction following
| Benchmark | not stated | Source | Trend |
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| IFBench | 58.2%#133 | Artificial Analysis |
Long context
| Benchmark | not stated | Source | Trend |
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| AA-LCR | 21.7%#425 | Artificial Analysis |
Composite
| Benchmark | not stated | Source | Trend |
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| AA Intelligence Index v4.3.2 | 4.8#631 | Artificial Analysis |
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Questions people ask
- What are Nemotron 3 Nano 4B's benchmark scores?
- As of 25 Oct 2026, Nemotron 3 Nano 4B scores 43.1 ±7.4 on the BenchLeader Index, strongest in instruction following (59) and weakest in knowledge (30). That rests on 6 independent benchmark results, and every score on this page links to its publisher.
- How does Nemotron 3 Nano 4B rank?
- Nemotron 3 Nano 4B is #579 of 785 ranked configurations on 25 Oct 2026. 403 other configurations score within its margin, so the exact position matters less than the band. The leader is Claude Opus 5.5 (max effort) at 72.6.
- When was Nemotron 3 Nano 4B released?
- NVIDIA released Nemotron 3 Nano 4B on 16 Mar 2026.
Data as of 25 Oct 2026. Compare with another model.
Cite as: BenchLeader, “Nemotron 3 Nano 4B: benchmarks, pricing, speed and rank”, data as of 25 Oct 2026, https://www.benchleader.com/models/nemotron-3-nano-4b.