Compare/NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 4B vs gpt-oss-120B (high)

NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 4Bvsgpt-oss-120B (high)

Side-by-side comparison of pricing, 12 benchmarks, and generation speed.

NVIDIA

NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 4B

Input
$0/M
Output
$0/M
Speed
TTFT
OpenAI

gpt-oss-120B (high)

Input
$0.15/M
Output
$0.6/M
Speed
235 tok/s
TTFT
0.50s

Winner by Category

Cheaper
NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 4B
Faster (tok/s)
gpt-oss-120B (high)
Lower Latency
NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 4B
Benchmarks (0-11)
gpt-oss-120B (high)

Pricing Comparison

MetricNVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 4Bgpt-oss-120B (high)
Input ($/M tokens)$0$0.15
Output ($/M tokens)$0$0.6
Cost for 1M input + 100K output tokens:
NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 4B$0.00
gpt-oss-120B (high)$0.21

Speed Comparison

Output Speed (tokens/s) — higher is better
NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 4B
gpt-oss-120B (high)
235 tok/s
Time to First Token (seconds) — lower is better
NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 4B
gpt-oss-120B (high)
0.50s

Benchmark Comparison

Data from Artificial Analysis API — 12 benchmarks

Intelligence Index
14.733.3
Coding Index
10.028.6
Math Index
93.4
GPQA Diamond
51.3%78.2%
MMLU-Pro
80.8%
LiveCodeBench
87.8%
AIME 2025
93.4%
MATH-500
Humanity's Last Exam
4.8%18.5%
SciCode
16.4%38.9%
IFBench
58.2%69.0%
TerminalBench
6.8%23.5%
NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 4B0 wins
11 winsgpt-oss-120B (high)

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is cheaper, NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 4B or gpt-oss-120B (high)?

NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 4B is cheaper overall. Its blended price (3:1 input/output ratio) is $0.00/M tokens vs $0.26/M for gpt-oss-120B (high).

Which model performs better on benchmarks?

gpt-oss-120B (high) wins 11 out of 12 benchmarks compared to 0 for NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 4B. See the detailed benchmark chart above for per-category results.

Which is faster for real-time applications?

gpt-oss-120B (high) generates tokens faster at 235 tok/s vs 0 tok/s. NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 4B also has lower time-to-first-token (0.00s vs 0.50s).

When should I use NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 4B vs gpt-oss-120B (high)?

Choose based on your priorities: NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 4B for lower cost, gpt-oss-120B (high) for stronger benchmark performance, and gpt-oss-120B (high) for faster generation. For latency-sensitive apps, check the TTFT comparison above.