Nemotron 3 Nano

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8recommend
0warn against
Dec 15, 2025first mention
Mar 22, 2026latest mention
Nov 25 – Oct 26
Used forlocal model for tool callinglocal model, tool callingwriting tests locallyquerying large codebaseslocal tool use and code analysiscost-effective model

Why people recommend it

mkwMar 22, 2026recommends

“I designed it around the intelligence dense Nemotron 3 Nano 30B”

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“Using newest Nemotron3 nano, you can put a 1m tokens (about 3 ish megabytes of text) of pure code dump”

“I think it fits your requirements for an OSS model”

“It is fast and passed all of my personal tool use tests, and did a good job analyzing code. Love it.”

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mkwMar 22, 2026recommends

“I designed it around the intelligence dense Nemotron 3 Nano 30B”

Oh those ghastly model names. https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/version

Some of NVIDIA's models also tend to have interesting architectures. For example, usage of the MAMBA architecture instead of purely transformers: https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/inside-nvidia-nemotron-3-techniques-tools-and-data-that-make-it-efficient-and-accurate/

“Nemotron 3 Nano is supposed to benchmark better but it doesn't really show for the kind of work I throw at it”

runs local models on a 32 GB GPUon “GLM-4.7-Flash”

“Using newest Nemotron3 nano, you can put a 1m tokens (about 3 ish megabytes of text) of pure code dump”

“I think it fits your requirements for an OSS model”

“It is fast and passed all of my personal tool use tests, and did a good job analyzing code. Love it.”

“this looks like it has great potential for cost-effectiveness”

Threads where it came up

Also written as Nemotron-3-Nano-30B-A3B. Data: nemotron-3-nano.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.

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