Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B vs Claude 3 Haiku

Side-by-side benchmark comparison across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, and math workflows.

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 61 to 49. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B's sharpest advantage is in coding, where it averages 44.2 against 19.3. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is SWE-bench Verified, 46 to 17. Claude 3 Haiku does hit back in multimodal & grounded, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B gives you the larger context window at 256K, compared with 200K for Claude 3 Haiku.

Quick Verdict

Pick Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Claude 3 Haiku only becomes the better choice if multimodal & grounded is the priority.

Agentic

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

55.3

Claude 3 Haiku

44

55
Terminal-Bench 2.0
40
59
BrowseComp
53
53
OSWorld-Verified
42

Coding

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

44.2

Claude 3 Haiku

19.3

59
HumanEval
48
46
SWE-bench Verified
17
42
LiveCodeBench
20
46
SWE-bench Pro
19

Multimodal & Grounded

Claude 3 Haiku

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

60.4

Claude 3 Haiku

68.7

55
MMMU-Pro
70
67
OfficeQA Pro
67

Reasoning

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

71.8

Claude 3 Haiku

59.6

64
SimpleQA
54
62
MuSR
52
88
BBH
74
77
LongBench v2
63
77
MRCRv2
63

Knowledge

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

55.8

Claude 3 Haiku

42.8

68
MMLU
56
67
GPQA
56
65
SuperGPQA
54
63
OpenBookQA
52
75
MMLU-Pro
63
16
HLE
2
66
FrontierScience
50

Instruction Following

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

86

Claude 3 Haiku

76

86
IFEval
76

Multilingual

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

81.5

Claude 3 Haiku

71.1

86
MGSM
73
79
MMLU-ProX
70

Mathematics

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

74.6

Claude 3 Haiku

62.2

67
AIME 2023
56
69
AIME 2024
58
68
AIME 2025
57
63
HMMT Feb 2023
52
65
HMMT Feb 2024
54
64
HMMT Feb 2025
53
66
BRUMO 2025
55
85
MATH-500
71

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B or Claude 3 Haiku?

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B is ahead overall, 61 to 49. The biggest single separator in this matchup is SWE-bench Verified, where the scores are 46 and 17.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B or Claude 3 Haiku?

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 55.8 versus 42.8. Inside this category, FrontierScience is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B or Claude 3 Haiku?

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 44.2 versus 19.3. Inside this category, SWE-bench Verified is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for math, Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B or Claude 3 Haiku?

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 74.6 versus 62.2. Inside this category, MATH-500 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B or Claude 3 Haiku?

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 71.8 versus 59.6. Inside this category, BBH is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for agentic tasks, Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B or Claude 3 Haiku?

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 55.3 versus 44. Inside this category, Terminal-Bench 2.0 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multimodal and grounded tasks, Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B or Claude 3 Haiku?

Claude 3 Haiku has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 68.7 versus 60.4. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for instruction following, Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B or Claude 3 Haiku?

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 86 versus 76. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multilingual tasks, Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B or Claude 3 Haiku?

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 81.5 versus 71.1. Inside this category, MGSM is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 12, 2026

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