nvidia/nemotron-3-nano-omni-30b-a3b-reasoning:free

Tested First tested 2026-11-11 · OpenRouter free lane

Nvidia Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B reasoning free lane: IFEval-50 89.8%, GSM8K-50 78.0% with zero failures, SVG 104/250 over 5 judged tests. Ties Lightning on IFEval, beats it on math and SVG. The small reasoning model is the best-balanced free lane on the board so far.

Scores

Suite	Score
IFEval-50 prompt-strict	89.8% (n=49)
IFEval-50 instruction-strict	90.9% (n=49)
GSM8K-50	78.0% (39/50)
SVG blind rubric	104/250

Artifacts

Blind-judged by nvidia/nemotron-3.5-super-vl:free: the judge saw the brief and the rendered image only, never the model name. Briefs are frozen; expand one to read it.

beach · 17/50

Brief fidelity (3/10): Sun, reflection, sand, and gradient appear, but the palm tree, dolphins, birds, sailboat, and starfish are absent or illegible, missing multiple headline elements.
Construction (5/10): Every element is a clean geometric primitive with no melted anatomy, duplicated parts, or assembly errors.
Composition (3/10): The oversized centered sun overwhelms a nearly empty frame with scattered, undersized elements and no clear depth hierarchy.
Detail finish (2/10): The image lacks textures, meaningful shading, and brief-specific small touches, and contains stray dark square artifacts in the sky.
Visual appeal (4/10): The smooth warm-to-cool sky gradient is attractive, but the extreme minimalism and missing subjects prevent it from satisfying as a beach scene.

Brief

Draw a beautiful sunset beach scene: a large sun sitting low over the sea with a shimmering reflection path on the water, a leaning palm tree silhouette on the left, two dolphins arcing out of the waves, a small sailboat on the right, birds in the sky, sandy foreground with a starfish. Warm oranges and pinks fading to teal. Coherent perspective: distant objects smaller and hazier than near ones. Output: exactly one self-contained SVG (viewBox "0 0 800 600", no external references) inside a single ```svg fenced block. Short prose outside the fence is allowed.

clock · 31/50

Brief fidelity (4/10): The clock shows 10:10 with correct hand positions and a dark rim on a light face, but all 12 numerals are missing and DRACON is placed at the center rather than under it, capping fidelity at 4.
Construction (7/10): The circular dial, three hands, and rim are cleanly assembled as vector shapes with no melted or duplicated parts, though the center text overlaps the pivot.
Composition (8/10): The clock is centered and fills the frame well with balanced negative space around the dial.
Detail finish (5/10): Minute tick marks and a thin second hand are present, but the absence of numerals, missing shading, and misplaced center text leave the finish sparse.
Visual appeal (7/10): The minimal black-and-gray palette and confident linework give it a clean, flat-vector charm despite its simplicity.

Brief

Draw a round wall clock face showing exactly 10:10: a circular dial with all 12 hour numerals in the correct positions, minute tick marks, an hour hand pointing just past 10, a minute hand pointing exactly at 2, and a thin second hand pointing at 6. The word DRACON in small capitals under the center. Dark rim, light face, flat vector style, centered composition. Output: exactly one self-contained SVG (viewBox "0 0 800 600", no external references) inside a single ```svg fenced block. Short prose outside the fence is allowed.

duo · 20/50

Brief fidelity (4/10): The jet ski, two riders, sea spray, sun, clouds, and shoreline are present, but the dog and raccoon are unrecognizable blobs and the paws-on-handlebars detail is missing, leaving headline elements incomplete.
Construction (3/10): Anatomy is reduced to a brown oval and gray circle with no clear heads, paws, or species features, so the figures look like assembled primitives rather than drawn bodies.
Composition (5/10): The tilted jet ski in the lower right creates a turning dynamic, but the layout is weighed down by vast empty sky and water with flat, minimal perspective.
Detail finish (4/10): Flat colors with simple white spray lines and cloud ovals deliver basic detail without shading, texture, or refined finishing, and no broken markup or cut-off edges are visible.
Visual appeal (4/10): The bright, clean cartoon palette and confident simple lines offer modest charm, though the extreme abstraction of the characters holds the appeal back.

Brief

Draw a comical scene: a dog driving a jet ski at speed, paws on the handlebars, with a raccoon riding behind holding on, both leaning into a turn. Sea spray behind the jet ski, sun and clouds in the sky, a distant shoreline. Both characters must be clearly doing something, not just posed side by side. Bright cartoon vector style. Output: exactly one self-contained SVG (viewBox "0 0 800 600", no external references) inside a single ```svg fenced block. Short prose outside the fence is allowed.

monalisa · 16/50

Brief fidelity (3/10): The river, mountains, bridge suggestion, and muted palette are present, but the seated woman, three-quarter face, smile, parted hair, folded hands, and neckline detail are effectively missing, so headline elements are absent.
Construction (2/10): The figure is reduced to a circle head, inverted-triangle dress, tiny neckline triangle, and rectangle hands; no recognizable anatomy, face, or hands are assembled.
Composition (4/10): The layout fills the frame with a centered head, horizontal river, and right-side landscape, but proportions are extreme and the bottom figure is cut off by the frame edge.
Detail finish (3/10): Flat vector shading is consistent, but none of the requested small touches (smile, hair part, folded hands, neckline detail) appear, and the bottom shape is cut off.
Visual appeal (4/10): The muted blue-brown-beige palette is coherent and the minimalist geometry is clean, but it reads as abstract rather than an appealing portrait.

Brief

Redraw the Mona Lisa as a flat vector portrait, bust composition: a seated woman in three-quarter view facing the viewer, dark dress with neckline detail, hands folded at the bottom edge, soft enigmatic smile, hair parted in the middle. Behind her a hazy landscape with a winding river, a bridge on the right, and blue mountains. Muted greens, browns, and smoky blues. Output: exactly one self-contained SVG (viewBox "0 0 800 600", no external references) inside a single ```svg fenced block. Short prose outside the fence is allowed.

pelican · 20/50

Brief fidelity (4/10): The pelican, beak, sky, sea horizon, and ground are present, but the long neck is missing and the feet are mere dots rather than webbed feet, so headline omissions cap this criterion at 4.
Construction (3/10): The bird is assembled from a rectangular body, triangular head/wing, and dot feet with no visible neck connection, making it look geometric rather than anatomically assembled.
Composition (5/10): The subject is centered with a clear horizon line and reasonable frame use, though the blocky proportions and oversized body relative to the head weaken the layout.
Detail finish (4/10): Shapes are clean and unbroken with a limited flat palette, but there is no shading, texture, or meaningful detail beyond the bare silhouette.
Visual appeal (4/10): The coherent brown-and-blue palette is pleasant, but the extreme abstraction gives the piece little charm or confidence, so it would unlikely be called good by a visitor.

Brief

Draw a brown pelican standing in side profile, facing left, full body visible: large beak with throat pouch, long neck, folded wing, webbed feet on flat ground. Simple sky background with a hint of sea on the horizon. Flat vector style, clean shapes, limited palette. Output: exactly one self-contained SVG (viewBox "0 0 800 600", no external references) inside a single ```svg fenced block. Short prose outside the fence is allowed.

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Evidence and notes

1 IFEval prompt unrecoverable under the token budget, counted as failure
Clock artifact recovered at 32k after a first-attempt reasoning burn
All 5 SVG briefs completed and judged, no script-drawn artifacts