Side-by-side comparison of Nemotron-3 Nano Omni 30B-A3B Reasoning (NVIDIA · USA) and SmolLM3 3B (Hugging Face · USA) for self-hosted deployment of the open-weight model. Nemotron-3 Nano Omni 30B-A3B Reasoning is rated conditional; SmolLM3 3B is EU-ready. They part ways on licence: Nemotron-3 Nano Omni 30B-A3B Reasoning is "NVIDIA Open Model", SmolLM3 3B is "Apache 2.0".
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| Verdict | 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. | EU-ready Fully open small model: Apache 2.0 weights, training data published, engineering blueprint public. 6 native languages (EN/FR/ES/DE/IT/PT) covers major EU markets. 128K context via YARN. Strong default for edge or on-prem EU deployments where transparency matters. |
| Last reviewed | 2026-05-03 | 2026-04-16 |
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| Licence | NVIDIA Open Model | Apache 2.0 |
| Commercial use | Permitted (with attribution) | Yes |
| Training data | Disclosed | Disclosed |
| Origin | USA | USA |
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| Context window | — | — |
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