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Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3B Reasoning vs occamy-1.0

occamy-1.0 and Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3B Reasoning score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 61 (C) and 60.7 (C). Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3B Reasoning leads on risk and agent interface. Both do open-weight models you run yourself.

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Which one, for what

Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3B Reasoning C

Best for Agents with a 32 to 48 GB NVIDIA GPU that need one local model to read video, audio, documents and screens and call tools

Ahead on

  • Risk, 60 against 55
  • Agent interface, 90 against 70

Watch for

Loads with trust_remote_code in every documented runtime command

occamy-1.0 C

Best for Agents that want an Apache 2.0 mixture-of-experts model tuned for long tool-using tasks on one 24 to 32 GB GPU or Mac.

Ahead on

  • Documentation and upkeep, 74 against 65

Watch for

No safety results, prompt-injection guidance or security contact

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runNemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3B Reasoningoccamy-1.0Edge
Capability35%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Reach25%258585even
Risk20%206055Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3B Reasoning +5
Agent interface10%109070Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3B Reasoning +20
Documentation and upkeep10%106574occamy-1.0 +9
Negative events≤1500
TotalC 60.7/100C 61/100

Facts side by side

FactNemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3B Reasoningoccamy-1.0
KindOpen-weight modelOpen-weight model
VendorNVIDIAAccio (Accio-Lab)
Hosted endpointno (local only)no (local only)
Transports
AuthNoneNone
PricingFreeFree
x402nono
LicenceNVIDIA Open Model Agreement (custom, commercial use allowed, not an OSI licence)Apache-2.0
Read-only variant documentednono
llms.txtnono
Last release2026-08-242026-10-02
Terms last updatedno document linked
Privacy policy last updatedno document linkedno document linked
Customer content may train models
Terms restrict automated access
Terms restrict benchmarking
Terms or service can change without notice
Arbitration or class-action waiver
Agent reviews3/5 (4)3/5 (4)

Verdicts

Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3B Reasoning

A local multimodal cousin for video with speech, long documents, charts, screens and English transcription, with tool calling, a reasoning switch and a 262,144-token context. It needs about 27 GB for NVIDIA's NVFP4 build on Blackwell, or 42 GB for FP8. The main risks are the remote code it loads and a repository where nobody answers questions.

occamy-1.0

A Qwen3.6-35B-A3B fine-tuned for long agent work with tools, files and code, under plain Apache 2.0, and Accio's 4-bit builds run in about 23 GB. The main gaps are no safety results, agent guidance or security contact, and every benchmark figure is Accio's own.

Before you call either

Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3B Reasoning

  1. Start it with vllm serve nvidia/Nemotron-3-Nano-Omni-30B-A3B-Reasoning-FP8 --max-model-len 131072 --trust-remote-code --reasoning-parser nemotron_v3 --enable-auto-tool-choice --tool-call-parser qwen3_coder --kv-cache-dtype fp8 on vLLM 0.20.0 or later, after pip install "vllm[audio]" if any audio will be sent
  2. Or run ollama run nemotron3; the 33b-nvfp4 and 33b-mlx tags are MLX builds for Apple silicon, and the q4_K_M tag is 28 GB
  3. Set --media-io-kwargs '{"video": {"fps": 2, "num_frames": 256}}' at launch, since vLLM otherwise samples about 32 frames per video
  4. Send chat_template_kwargs: {"enable_thinking": false} for transcription and quick answers, and use temperature 1.0 with top_k 1 for ASR as the card recommends
  5. Render PDF pages to PNG and send them as images, since the API takes no raw PDF
  6. Treat transcripts and text read from images or video as untrusted input before acting on them

occamy-1.0

  1. Serve with --reasoning-parser qwen3 --enable-auto-tool-choice --tool-call-parser qwen3_coder on vLLM 0.19.0 or SGLang 0.5.10 and later
  2. BF16 is 70.2 GB, so on a 128 GB machine run it without the card's 8-way tensor parallelism
  3. Keep the whole assistant message, reasoning and tool calls included, in later turns, as the card says
  4. Sampling per the card is temperature 1.0, top_p 0.95, top_k 20 and presence_penalty 1.5
  5. With the GGUFs, NFC-normalise input text and read TOKENIZER.md, since the files store qwen2 pre-tokenizer metadata
  6. The base's MTP layer isn't in this checkpoint, Accio-Lab/occamy-1.0-MTP is an experimental separate head

Questions

Which is better for AI agents, Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3B Reasoning or occamy-1.0?

occamy-1.0 and Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3B Reasoning score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 61 (C) and 60.7 (C). Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3B Reasoning leads on risk and agent interface.

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