Nemotron-Cascade-2-30B-A3B: benchmark scores, price and ranking

Nemotron-Cascade-2-30B-A3B from nvidia ranks #194 of 743 LLMs on the LLMs Tiger aggregate benchmark score (50.4), based on 1 benchmark results captured up to 2026-10-13.

Organisation: nvidia
Type: Open-weight / local model
Open weights: Yes
Aggregate rank: #194 of 743 (score 50.4)

Across the 1 benchmark where at least ten models are scored, Nemotron-Cascade-2-30B-A3B is in the top 10% on 0 and in the top half on 1.

Nemotron-Cascade-2-30B-A3B benchmark results

Nemotron-Cascade-2-30B-A3B benchmark scores, ranked against all models measured on each benchmark
Benchmark	Score	Rank	Source	Captured
GPQA Diamond	76.1%	#122 of 275	HuggingFace GPQA Diamond leaderboard	2026-10-13

About Nemotron-Cascade-2-30B-A3B

Nemotron-Cascade-2-30B-A3B is an open-weight model that can run on your own hardware from nvidia. No API price is listed for it yet. We hold 1 benchmark result for it across 1 area, and none is in the top tenth of its board.

Where Nemotron-Cascade-2-30B-A3B stands

On our aggregate score, Nemotron-Cascade-2-30B-A3B is #194 of 743 ranked models, around the middle of the table. Its score is 50.4; the scale is centred on 50, so it sits 0.4 points above the typical model. That beats 74% of the ranked field. Among the 9 ranked nvidia models it is #7. The next one up is NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Super-120B-A12B-FP8 at 50.5. The next one down is NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Nano-30B-A3B-Base-BF16 at 49.2.

Nemotron-Cascade-2-30B-A3B, benchmark by benchmark

GPQA Diamond puts Nemotron-Cascade-2-30B-A3B at 76.1%, #122 of 275. That beats 56% of the models tested, but 19.7 points short of GPT-6 Astra (max) (95.8%). The results either side are Claude Opus 4 (76.3%) and claude-sonnet-4-20250514_16K (75.8%). It covers expert-level science questions. The board median is 71.7%, so Nemotron-Cascade-2-30B-A3B is 4.4 points above it. Source: HuggingFace GPQA Diamond leaderboard, captured 2026-10-13.

Reading these numbers

The 1 score on this page comes from 1 source: HuggingFace GPQA Diamond leaderboard (1). No official leaderboard supplied any of them, so treat them as third-party measurements. With 1 results the aggregate rank can move a lot when one new score arrives.

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