Side-by-side comparison of Codestral 22B (Mistral AI · France) and Nemotron-3 Nano Omni 30B-A3B Reasoning (NVIDIA · USA) for self-hosted deployment of the open-weight model. Codestral 22B is rated conditional; Nemotron-3 Nano Omni 30B-A3B Reasoning is conditional. They part ways on licence: Codestral 22B is "MNPL (non-prod)", Nemotron-3 Nano Omni 30B-A3B Reasoning is "NVIDIA Open Model".
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| Verdict | Conditional EU code model trained on 80+ languages. Licensed under Mistral Non-Production License — blocked for any production or commercial deployment without a paid commercial licence. Use Codestral Mamba (Apache 2.0) if you need commercial freedom. | Conditional Per the NVIDIA Open Model Agreement, Nemotron-3 Nano Omni is commercially usable with a NOTICE-file attribution requirement and U.S. export-compliance obligations. Multimodal MoE (31B total / 3B active) accepting video, audio, image and text input, with reasoning-style chain-of-thought output. Training data is unusually well-documented (1,395 datasets, modality breakdown, CSAM scanning) — useful for AI Act Article 53 mapping. Vendor jurisdiction remains the US. |
| Last reviewed | 2026-04-15 | 2026-05-03 |
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| Licence | MNPL (non-prod) | NVIDIA Open Model |
| Commercial use | Paid licence req. | Permitted (with attribution) |
| Training data | Partial | Disclosed |
| Origin | EU | USA |
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