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Cactus Needle 2 vs Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B

Side-by-side specs, pricing & capabilities · Updated September 2026

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 Cactus ComputeCactus Needle 2NVIDIANemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B
OrganizationCactus ComputeCactus ComputeNVIDIANVIDIA
OpenTools Score
FamilyNeedleNemotron
StatusCurrentCurrent
Release DateAug 2026Dec 2025
Context Window256 tokens256K tokens
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Pricing NotesApache 2.0 model artifact; runtime cost depends on local hardware, not token API pricing.Free tier available on OpenRouter with rate limits
Capabilities
tool-usestructured-outputjson-schemadevice-controledge-inferenceoffline
textcode
Max Output256 tokens—
API IdentifierCactus-Compute/needle2nvidia/nemotron-3-nano-30b-a3b:free
Benchmarks
Mobile Actions Ordered Strict Exact Match
63.7cactus-compute
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BFCL v4 Single-Turn Overall
42.6cactus-compute
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Cactus Compute

Cactus Needle 2

Cactus Needle 2 is a 45M-parameter, 14 MB agentic model for tiny devices. It focuses on tool calling, device control, schema-constrained JSON, and structured extraction; Cactus reports 28 MB session RAM, 800+ tok/s prefill, and 500+ tok/s decode on Raspberry Pi 5.

NVIDIA

Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B

Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B is a large language model from NVIDIA. Supports up to 256,000 token context window. Available free with rate limits on OpenRouter.

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