Claude 4 Sonnet vs Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

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

Claude 4 Sonnet has the cleaner overall profile here, landing at 64 versus 61. It is a real lead, but still close enough that category-level strengths matter more than the headline number.

Claude 4 Sonnet's sharpest advantage is in multimodal & grounded, where it averages 79.7 against 60.4. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is MMMU-Pro, 81 to 55. Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B does hit back in instruction following, 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 4 Sonnet.

Quick Verdict

Pick Claude 4 Sonnet if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B only becomes the better choice if instruction following is the priority or you need the larger 256K context window.

Agentic

Claude 4 Sonnet

Claude 4 Sonnet

57.9

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

55.3

56
Terminal-Bench 2.0
55
62
BrowseComp
59
57
OSWorld-Verified
53

Coding

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

Claude 4 Sonnet

42.9

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

44.2

65
HumanEval
59
51
SWE-bench Verified
46
36
LiveCodeBench
42
48
SWE-bench Pro
46

Multimodal & Grounded

Claude 4 Sonnet

Claude 4 Sonnet

79.7

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

60.4

81
MMMU-Pro
55
78
OfficeQA Pro
67

Reasoning

Tie

Claude 4 Sonnet

71.8

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

71.8

71
SimpleQA
64
69
MuSR
62
82
BBH
88
71
LongBench v2
77
72
MRCRv2
77

Knowledge

Claude 4 Sonnet

Claude 4 Sonnet

56.8

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

55.8

73
MMLU
68
73
GPQA
67
71
SuperGPQA
65
69
OpenBookQA
63
75
MMLU-Pro
75
12
HLE
16
67
FrontierScience
66

Instruction Following

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

Claude 4 Sonnet

83

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

86

83
IFEval
86

Multilingual

Claude 4 Sonnet

Claude 4 Sonnet

82.1

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

81.5

84
MGSM
86
81
MMLU-ProX
79

Mathematics

Claude 4 Sonnet

Claude 4 Sonnet

76.1

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

74.6

73
AIME 2023
67
75
AIME 2024
69
74
AIME 2025
68
69
HMMT Feb 2023
63
71
HMMT Feb 2024
65
70
HMMT Feb 2025
64
72
BRUMO 2025
66
81
MATH-500
85

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, Claude 4 Sonnet or Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B?

Claude 4 Sonnet is ahead overall, 64 to 61. The biggest single separator in this matchup is MMMU-Pro, where the scores are 81 and 55.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Claude 4 Sonnet or Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B?

Claude 4 Sonnet has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 56.8 versus 55.8. Inside this category, GPQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, Claude 4 Sonnet or Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B?

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 44.2 versus 42.9. Inside this category, HumanEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for math, Claude 4 Sonnet or Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B?

Claude 4 Sonnet has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 76.1 versus 74.6. Inside this category, AIME 2023 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, Claude 4 Sonnet or Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B?

Claude 4 Sonnet and Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B are effectively tied for reasoning here, both landing at 71.8 on average.

Which is better for agentic tasks, Claude 4 Sonnet or Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B?

Claude 4 Sonnet has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 57.9 versus 55.3. Inside this category, OSWorld-Verified is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multimodal and grounded tasks, Claude 4 Sonnet or Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B?

Claude 4 Sonnet has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 79.7 versus 60.4. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for instruction following, Claude 4 Sonnet or Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B?

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 86 versus 83. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multilingual tasks, Claude 4 Sonnet or Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B?

Claude 4 Sonnet has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 82.1 versus 81.5. Inside this category, MGSM is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 12, 2026

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