This article investigates the heat and mass transmission of the double‐diffusive convective stream over a moving vertical plate with nonlinear thermal radiation and newton boundary conditions. The governing partial differential equations of the stream, heat, and concentration profiles were transformed into a system of nonlinear ordinary differential equation by utilizing resemblance transformation. This system was then resolved numerically by applying the fourth order Runge‐Kutta method with most efficient shooting technique. The effect of convection, buoyancy ratio, nonlinear thermal radiation, Prandtl number, Rayleigh number and Schmidt number are graphically scrutinized. The numerical results are obtained for velocity, temperature, and concentration profiles. It is found that when the velocity profile increases, heat and mass transfer rate decreases with an increase in the parametric value of buoyancy ratio parameter. It is found that the effect of nonlinear thermal radiation stabilizes the thermal boundary layer growth. The skin friction coefficient decreases with an increase in Prandtl number. However, the Nusselt number increases with an increase in the local convective heat transfer rate. The present results are very much promising, and further, there is a very good agreement of results when compared with earlier published results for some limiting conditions.