Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B vs Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking

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 44. 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 mathematics, where it averages 74.6 against 48.3. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is MMLU, 68 to 38.

Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking is the reasoning model in the pair, while Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B is not. That usually helps on harder chain-of-thought-heavy tests, but it can also mean more latency and more token spend in real use. Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B gives you the larger context window at 256K, compared with 200K for Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking.

Quick Verdict

Pick Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking only becomes the better choice if you want the stronger reasoning-first profile.

Agentic

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

55.3

Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking

46.7

55
Terminal-Bench 2.0
45
59
BrowseComp
49
53
OSWorld-Verified
47

Coding

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

44.2

Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking

21.8

59
HumanEval
30
46
SWE-bench Verified
20
42
LiveCodeBench
15
46
SWE-bench Pro
29

Multimodal & Grounded

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

60.4

Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking

59.3

55
MMMU-Pro
62
67
OfficeQA Pro
56

Reasoning

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

71.8

Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking

49.4

64
SimpleQA
36
62
MuSR
34
88
BBH
67
77
LongBench v2
60
77
MRCRv2
60

Knowledge

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

55.8

Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking

34.3

68
MMLU
38
67
GPQA
37
65
SuperGPQA
35
63
OpenBookQA
33
75
MMLU-Pro
53
16
HLE
8
66
FrontierScience
41

Instruction Following

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

86

Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking

66

86
IFEval
66

Multilingual

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

81.5

Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking

58.7

86
MGSM
60
79
MMLU-ProX
58

Mathematics

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

74.6

Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking

48.3

67
AIME 2023
38
69
AIME 2024
40
68
AIME 2025
39
63
HMMT Feb 2023
34
65
HMMT Feb 2024
36
64
HMMT Feb 2025
35
66
BRUMO 2025
37
85
MATH-500
62

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B or Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking?

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B is ahead overall, 61 to 44. The biggest single separator in this matchup is MMLU, where the scores are 68 and 38.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B or Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking?

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 55.8 versus 34.3. Inside this category, MMLU is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B or Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking?

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 44.2 versus 21.8. Inside this category, HumanEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for math, Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B or Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking?

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 74.6 versus 48.3. Inside this category, AIME 2023 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B or Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking?

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 71.8 versus 49.4. Inside this category, SimpleQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for agentic tasks, Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B or Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking?

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 55.3 versus 46.7. 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 4.1 Opus Thinking?

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 60.4 versus 59.3. Inside this category, OfficeQA Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for instruction following, Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B or Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking?

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 86 versus 66. 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 4.1 Opus Thinking?

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 81.5 versus 58.7. Inside this category, MGSM is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 12, 2026

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