Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B vs Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite

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 53. 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 24.7. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is SWE-bench Verified, 46 to 22. Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite does hit back in multimodal & grounded, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.

Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite is also the more expensive model on tokens at $0.10 input / $0.40 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. Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite gives you the larger context window at 1M, compared with 256K for Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B.

Quick Verdict

Pick Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite only becomes the better choice if multimodal & grounded is the priority or you need the larger 1M context window.

Agentic

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

55.3

Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite

49.2

55
Terminal-Bench 2.0
47
59
BrowseComp
60
53
OSWorld-Verified
44

Coding

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

44.2

Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite

24.7

59
HumanEval
55
46
SWE-bench Verified
22
42
LiveCodeBench
21
46
SWE-bench Pro
29

Multimodal & Grounded

Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

60.4

Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite

73.1

55
MMMU-Pro
74
67
OfficeQA Pro
72

Reasoning

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

71.8

Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite

65.8

64
SimpleQA
60
62
MuSR
58
88
BBH
74
77
LongBench v2
69
77
MRCRv2
73

Knowledge

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

55.8

Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite

45.3

68
MMLU
63
67
GPQA
62
65
SuperGPQA
60
63
OpenBookQA
58
75
MMLU-Pro
63
16
HLE
1
66
FrontierScience
55

Instruction Following

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

86

Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite

79

86
IFEval
79

Multilingual

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

81.5

Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite

69.8

86
MGSM
73
79
MMLU-ProX
68

Mathematics

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

74.6

Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite

66.1

67
AIME 2023
63
69
AIME 2024
65
68
AIME 2025
64
63
HMMT Feb 2023
59
65
HMMT Feb 2024
61
64
HMMT Feb 2025
60
66
BRUMO 2025
62
85
MATH-500
71

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B or Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite?

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B is ahead overall, 61 to 53. The biggest single separator in this matchup is SWE-bench Verified, where the scores are 46 and 22.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B or Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite?

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 55.8 versus 45.3. Inside this category, HLE is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B or Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite?

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 44.2 versus 24.7. 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 Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite?

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 74.6 versus 66.1. 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 Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite?

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 71.8 versus 65.8. 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 Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite?

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 55.3 versus 49.2. Inside this category, OSWorld-Verified is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multimodal and grounded tasks, Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B or Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite?

Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 73.1 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 Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite?

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 86 versus 79. 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 Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite?

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 81.5 versus 69.8. Inside this category, MGSM is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 12, 2026

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