Side-by-side comparison of Mistral Small (Mistral AI · France) and Nemotron-3 Nano Omni 30B-A3B Reasoning (NVIDIA · USA) for self-hosted deployment of the open-weight model. Mistral Small is rated EU-ready; Nemotron-3 Nano Omni 30B-A3B Reasoning is conditional. They part ways on licence: Mistral Small is "Apache 2.0", Nemotron-3 Nano Omni 30B-A3B Reasoning is "NVIDIA Open Model".
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| Summary | ||
| Verdict | EU-ready Best-in-class permissive licence from an EU vendor. Apache 2.0 means no usage caps, no royalty, no revocation risk. | 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 |
| Open-weight | ||
| Licence | Apache 2.0 | NVIDIA Open Model |
| Commercial use | Yes | Permitted (with attribution) |
| Training data | Partial | Disclosed |
| Origin | EU | USA |
| Performance & pricing? | ||
| Quality index | 13/100 | — |
| Speed | 152 tok/s | — |
| Blended price | $0.15/M | — |
| Context window | — | — |
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