Gemini 3.8 Flash vs Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B-A3B

Gemini 3.8 Flash leads on the Visual Intelligence Index by 20.3 points, and Gemini 3.8 Flash scores higher on 7 of the 7 benchmarks where the two differ.

Model

Compared with

GoogleGemini 3.8 Flash80.6%Rank #2 NVIDIANemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B-A3B60.3%Rank #8

At a glance

Measure	Gemini 3.8 Flash	Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B-A3B
Visual Intelligence Index	80.6%	60.3%
Rank	#2 of 9	#8 of 9
Cost per taskMean over the benchmarks, at list price.	$0.0474	—
Latency per taskEach benchmark's median, averaged.	25.5s	14.7s
Tokens per task	60,794	35,341
Input / 1M tokens	$0.75	—
Output / 1M tokens	$3.75	—
Context window	1M	262K
Availability	Proprietary	Open weights

How cost and latency are measured

Capabilities

Each capability index is a weighted mean of the benchmarks that contribute to the capability.

Capability	Gemini 3.8 Flash	Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B-A3B	Lead
Perception	79.8%	61.0%	+18.8
Spatial Reasoning	82.5%	62.0%	+20.5
Temporal Reasoning	81.3%	60.2%	+21.1
Action / Event Understanding	78.2%	55.6%	+22.7
Causal Reasoning	81.6%	63.6%	+18.1
Information Retrieval	79.4%	57.1%	+22.3

Benchmarks

Benchmark	Gemini 3.8 Flash	Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B-A3B	Lead
Video-MME v2	71.3%	35.0%	+36.3
LVBench	86.4%	54.2%	+32.1
Perception Test	85.5%	70.3%	+15.2
NExT-QA	88.0%	81.2%	+6.8
Q-Bench Video	69.3%	64.9%	+4.5
EgoSchema	80.8%	65.8%	+15.0
UCF101-AD	63.5%	31.0%	+32.5

Usability

Gemini 3.8 Flash

4.0/ 5

Reachable1.0: There is an endpoint you can call without hosting anything.
First-party API — supported
Third-party API — supported
Portable0.0: You can run it yourself, and are not tied to one vendor.
Open weights — not supported
Self-hostable — not supported
Multimodal input1.0: It takes the footage directly, rather than frames you extracted.
Video ingestion — supported
Audio — supported
Programmable1.0: Output you can parse, and tools it can call on its own.
Structured output — supported
Tool calling — supported
Operable1.0: Usable interactively and in bulk, not only one call at a time.
Streaming — supported
Batch API — supported

Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B-A3B

5.0/ 5

Reachable1.0: There is an endpoint you can call without hosting anything.
First-party API — supported
Third-party API — supported
Portable1.0: You can run it yourself, and are not tied to one vendor.
Open weights — supported
Self-hostable — supported
Multimodal input1.0: It takes the footage directly, rather than frames you extracted.
Video ingestion — supported
Audio — supported
Programmable1.0: Output you can parse, and tools it can call on its own.
Structured output — supported
Tool calling — supported
Operable1.0: Usable interactively and in bulk, not only one call at a time.
Streaming — supported
Batch API — supported