Claude Haiku 4.5 vs Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

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

Claude Haiku 4.5 finishes one point ahead overall, 62 to 61. That is enough to call, but not enough to treat as a blowout. This matchup comes down to a few meaningful edges rather than one model dominating the board.

Claude Haiku 4.5's sharpest advantage is in multimodal & grounded, where it averages 78.4 against 60.4. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is MMMU-Pro, 82 to 55. Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B does hit back in reasoning, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.

Claude Haiku 4.5 is also the more expensive model on tokens at $0.80 input / $4.00 output per 1M tokens, versus $0.00 input / $0.00 output per 1M tokens for Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B. That is roughly Infinityx on output cost alone. Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B gives you the larger context window at 256K, compared with 200K for Claude Haiku 4.5.

Quick Verdict

Pick Claude Haiku 4.5 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B only becomes the better choice if reasoning is the priority or you want the cheaper token bill.

Agentic

Claude Haiku 4.5

Claude Haiku 4.5

56.7

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

55.3

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

Coding

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

Claude Haiku 4.5

41.7

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

44.2

60
HumanEval
59
48
SWE-bench Verified
46
36
LiveCodeBench
42
46
SWE-bench Pro
46

Multimodal & Grounded

Claude Haiku 4.5

Claude Haiku 4.5

78.4

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

60.4

82
MMMU-Pro
55
74
OfficeQA Pro
67

Reasoning

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

Claude Haiku 4.5

68.9

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

71.8

65
SimpleQA
64
63
MuSR
62
81
BBH
88
72
LongBench v2
77
70
MRCRv2
77

Knowledge

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

Claude Haiku 4.5

53.6

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

55.8

68
MMLU
68
67
GPQA
67
65
SuperGPQA
65
63
OpenBookQA
63
73
MMLU-Pro
75
11
HLE
16
64
FrontierScience
66

Instruction Following

Tie

Claude Haiku 4.5

86

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

86

86
IFEval
86

Multilingual

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

Claude Haiku 4.5

80.1

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

81.5

82
MGSM
86
79
MMLU-ProX
79

Mathematics

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

Claude Haiku 4.5

73.3

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

74.6

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

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, Claude Haiku 4.5 or Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B?

Claude Haiku 4.5 is ahead overall, 62 to 61. The biggest single separator in this matchup is MMMU-Pro, where the scores are 82 and 55.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Claude Haiku 4.5 or Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B?

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 55.8 versus 53.6. Inside this category, HLE is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, Claude Haiku 4.5 or Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B?

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 44.2 versus 41.7. Inside this category, LiveCodeBench is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for math, Claude Haiku 4.5 or Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B?

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 74.6 versus 73.3. Inside this category, MATH-500 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, Claude Haiku 4.5 or Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B?

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 71.8 versus 68.9. Inside this category, BBH is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for agentic tasks, Claude Haiku 4.5 or Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B?

Claude Haiku 4.5 has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 56.7 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 Haiku 4.5 or Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B?

Claude Haiku 4.5 has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 78.4 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 Haiku 4.5 or Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B?

Claude Haiku 4.5 and Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B are effectively tied for instruction following here, both landing at 86 on average.

Which is better for multilingual tasks, Claude Haiku 4.5 or Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B?

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 81.5 versus 80.1. Inside this category, MGSM is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 12, 2026

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