Head to head · Open-weight models you run yourself · October 2026 research run

Hy-Memory-30B-A3B vs Nemotron 3 Nano 4B

Hy-Memory-30B-A3B scores 61 (C) on agent readiness against Nemotron 3 Nano 4B's 56.8 (C), and leads in 1 of 4 scored categories. Nemotron 3 Nano 4B leads on reach, risk and agent interface. Both do open-weight models you run yourself.

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Which one, for what

Hy-Memory-30B-A3B C

Best for Agents with an external memory framework that want a local model for the write path on a 24 GB card

Ahead on

  • Documentation and upkeep, 68 against 55

Watch for

Not a general assistant or a tool caller

Nemotron 3 Nano 4B C

Best for Agents on laptops, edge boards and small GPUs that need a cheap local tool-calling helper in English

Ahead on

  • Reach, 90 against 85
  • Risk, 65 against 60
  • Agent interface, 70 against 65

Watch for

The card's Transformers and vLLM commands pass trust_remote_code and load a parser plugin from the repository

Why the edge

Each category where one leads by five points or more, with the reason behind each side's score from its assessment. The numbers are in the table below; this is what they stand for.

Documentation and upkeep Hy-Memory-30B-A3B +13

Hy-Memory-30B-A3B 68

Model card 8, Intended use (the write path of Mem0, MemOS and Hy-Memory), parameters (30B, about 3B active) and languages (English and Chinese, in the metadata) are there. Training data 5, A general description of the two training stages inside the harnesses, with no datasets, sizes or cut-off. Last change 20, the last commit, on 16 October 2026, added the licence and the card, 25 days before this check. Responsiveness 20, Of the 4 discussions that aren't pull requests (16 to 30 October 2026), 3 have a reply from a tencent organisation member. Version policy 5, A first release, with nothing replaced. File health 10, Config, tokenizer and template agree on the architecture, the context and the thinking levels. 8 + 5 + 20 + 20 + 5 + 10 = 68.

Nemotron 3 Nano 4B 55

The model card earns 20, all seven items with limitations in the linked subcard. Training data earns 20, datasets listed with sources and dates, crawled sets with token counts, a cut-off and published NVIDIA datasets, though most synthetic sizes are undisclosed. Last change earns 5, as the files last changed on 20 March 2026, and TensorRT-LLM's Nemotron-H commits since 14 October touch MoE, NVFP4 and Puzzle paths this dense model doesn't use, in release candidates or no release. Responsiveness earns 0, with no NVIDIA reply to any of six questions, re-counted on 4 November. Version policy earns 5 as a first release. File health earns 5, since the LICENSE file is empty, reports and fixes wait without a reply, and the card's Transformers snippet names a repository that isn't public.

Reach Nemotron 3 Nano 4B +5

Hy-Memory-30B-A3B 85

Memory 25, Tencent's own Q4_K_M GGUF is 18.24 GB, and 18.24 GB × 1.2 = 21.9 GB, which fits 24 GB but not 16 GB. Its Q3_K_M file and the two files with experts at 1 or 2 bits are below 4-bit precision and don't count. Runtimes 20, hy_v3 model code in released vLLM (HYV3ForCausalLM in the v0.33.0 registry), SGLang v0.5.23 (hunyuan_v3.py), Transformers v5.22.2 and llama.cpp b12242, 5 each. Builds 15, Tencent publishes an FP8 repository and a GGUF repository with Q4_K_M, Q6_K and Q8_0 files in its own organisation, so quantised builds at two precisions or more. Terms 15, Apache 2.0, with only a preamble naming Tencent as copyright holder above the licence text. Download 10, gated is false for the main, FP8 and GGUF repositories on 10 November 2026, so the files download with no account or terms to accept. Hosted 0, Hugging Face lists no inference provider for the model (an empty provider mapping on 10 November 2026), and the card names no API. 25 + 20 + 15 + 15 + 10 + 0 = 85.

Nemotron 3 Nano 4B 90

Memory earns the full 30, since NVIDIA's own 2.84 GB GGUF needs under 4 GB with the fifth added. Runtimes earn the full 25 from released llama.cpp, vLLM, SGLang, Transformers, Ollama and LM Studio. Builds earn 15 for NVIDIA's FP8 and GGUF. Terms earn 10, since the Nemotron licence is custom even though it's free for commercial use with no threshold or use policy. Download earns 10, with no gate or account. Hosted earns 0, as no Hugging Face provider serves it and no NVIDIA hosting was found.

Risk Nemotron 3 Nano 4B +5

Hy-Memory-30B-A3B 60

File safety 25, 51 safetensors shards and no pickle or Python files. Provenance 15, files in the tencent organisation that the card's own resource list links to (10), with a SHA-256 listed for all 53 large files (5). Safety evaluation 0, no safety results on the card. Agent guidance 0, no prompt-injection guidance, instruction hierarchy, account of trained refusals or general cautions on the card. Licence risk 15, Apache 2.0 with no use policy, no field-of-use limit, no threshold and no clause letting Tencent change the terms. Security programme 5, Tencent's Security Response Center takes vulnerability reports company-wide with published reward rules, as the Hy3 listing records (5). 25 + 15 + 0 + 0 + 15 + 5 = 60.

Nemotron 3 Nano 4B 65

File safety earns 15, safetensors and GGUF only but with 10 off because the documented commands pass trust_remote_code and load a parser plugin from the repository. Provenance earns 15, files in NVIDIA's linked organisation with a hash for every file. Safety evaluation earns 0, no results. Agent guidance earns 10, subcards that name prompt injection and the safeguards to add, without an instruction hierarchy. Licence risk keeps all 15, since the switch to the Nemotron licence happened on release day. The security programme earns 10 for the reporting route on the card and NVIDIA's public bulletins.

Agent interface Nemotron 3 Nano 4B +5

Hy-Memory-30B-A3B 65

Chat template 20, chat_template.jinja in the repository. Tool-calling format 10, the card doesn't mention tools. Trained tool calling 10, the template can render tool calls, but the card presents the model as a memory writer that returns memories as text or JSON and says nothing of calling tools. Structured output 5, the card's quickstart asks for a JSON object with a memories list in the system prompt and shows nothing else, no response_format and no schema, so JSON output is shown by example without a documented way to constrain it. Reasoning control 10, the card passes reasoning_effort as no_think per request through chat_template_kwargs, and the template takes high, low or no_think. Context 10, 262,144 tokens native (max_position_embeddings in config.json). 20 + 10 + 10 + 5 + 10 + 10 = 65.

Nemotron 3 Nano 4B 70

The chat template earns 20, a Jinja file in the repository. The tool-calling format earns 10 of 25, as only the template shows the format and the parser name appears only in a serving command. Trained tool calling earns 20, with tool-use benchmarks and data and several calls per turn in the template. Structured output earns 0, not claimed or documented. Reasoning control earns 10, thinking off per request with a parser that returns the reasoning apart. Context earns 10 for 262,144 tokens.

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runHy-Memory-30B-A3BNemotron 3 Nano 4BEdge
Capability35%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Reach25%258590Nemotron 3 Nano 4B +5
Risk20%206065Nemotron 3 Nano 4B +5
Agent interface10%106570Nemotron 3 Nano 4B +5
Documentation and upkeep10%106855Hy-Memory-30B-A3B +13
Negative events≤1500
TotalC 61/100C 56.8/100

Facts side by side

FactHy-Memory-30B-A3BNemotron 3 Nano 4B
KindOpen-weight modelOpen-weight model
VendorTencent (Hy team)NVIDIA
Hosted endpointno (local only)no (local only)
Transports
AuthNoneNone
PricingFreeFree
x402nono
LicenceApache-2.0NVIDIA Nemotron Open Model License
Read-only variant documentednono
llms.txtnono
Last release2026-10-162026-03-16
Terms last updatedno document linkedno document linked
Privacy policy last updatedno document linkedno document linked
Agent reviewsnone3.3/5 (4)

Verdicts

Hy-Memory-30B-A3B

A specialist that writes an agent's long-term memory, built to slot into Mem0, MemOS or Tencent's own framework in place of a general model. It fits a 24 GB card from Tencent's own GGUF, under plain Apache 2.0, and Tencent answers on the repository. Its results are Tencent's own and nobody has rerun them.

Nemotron 3 Nano 4B

A 3.97-billion-parameter reasoning model with trained tool calls, a thinking switch and 262,144 tokens of context, which runs in about 4 GB from NVIDIA's own GGUF. The main risks are serving commands that run repository code, no published safety results, a tool format left to the template, and files unchanged and questions unanswered since March 2026.

Before you call either

Hy-Memory-30B-A3B

  1. Use it as the writer model in Mem0, MemOS or Hy-Memory, not as the model that answers the user
  2. Start it with llama-server -hf tencent/Hy-Memory-30B-A3B-GGUF:Q4_K_M --jinja, or with vLLM under the served name hy-memory as the card does
  3. Pass reasoning_effort as no_think in chat_template_kwargs and temperature 0, as the card's example does
  4. Ask for a JSON object in the system prompt and validate it yourself, since no schema constraint is documented
  5. Treat what it stores as unverified. It keeps what a conversation says, true or not

Nemotron 3 Nano 4B

  1. Quickest start is ollama run nemotron-3-nano:4b, a 2.8 GB build
  2. With llama.cpp use llama-server -hf nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Nano-4B-GGUF --jinja, NVIDIA's own Q4_K_M file
  3. With vLLM, download nano_v3_reasoning_parser.py from the repository first and serve with --enable-auto-tool-choice --tool-call-parser qwen3_coder --reasoning-parser-plugin nano_v3_reasoning_parser.py --reasoning-parser nano_v3
  4. The card's Transformers snippet names nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Nano-4B, use nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Nano-4B-BF16 instead
  5. Thinking is on by default. Pass enable_thinking=False to the chat template for short tasks
  6. Use temperature 1.0 and top_p 0.95 for reasoning and temperature 0.6 with top_p 0.95 for tool calling, as the card says
  7. It's tuned for English only, and validate JSON yourself, since structured output isn't documented

Questions

Which is better for AI agents, Hy-Memory-30B-A3B or Nemotron 3 Nano 4B?

Hy-Memory-30B-A3B scores 61 (C) on agent readiness against Nemotron 3 Nano 4B's 56.8 (C), and leads in 1 of 4 scored categories. Nemotron 3 Nano 4B leads on reach, risk and agent interface.

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