Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B vs GPT-4.1 mini

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

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B has the cleaner overall profile here, landing at 61 versus 58. It is a real lead, but still close enough that category-level strengths matter more than the headline number.

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B's sharpest advantage is in mathematics, where it averages 74.6 against 23.1. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is AIME 2024, 69 to 23.1. GPT-4.1 mini does hit back in multimodal & grounded, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.

GPT-4.1 mini is also the more expensive model on tokens at $0.40 input / $1.60 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. GPT-4.1 mini 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. GPT-4.1 mini only becomes the better choice if multimodal & grounded is the priority or you need the larger 1M context window.

Agentic

GPT-4.1 mini

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

55.3

GPT-4.1 mini

56.5

55
Terminal-Bench 2.0
54
59
BrowseComp
71
53
OSWorld-Verified
49

Coding

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

44.2

GPT-4.1 mini

28.8

59
HumanEval
Coming soon
46
SWE-bench Verified
23.6
42
LiveCodeBench
Coming soon
46
SWE-bench Pro
30

Multimodal & Grounded

GPT-4.1 mini

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

60.4

GPT-4.1 mini

69.6

55
MMMU-Pro
66
67
OfficeQA Pro
74

Reasoning

GPT-4.1 mini

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

71.8

GPT-4.1 mini

80.9

64
SimpleQA
Coming soon
62
MuSR
Coming soon
88
BBH
Coming soon
77
LongBench v2
80
77
MRCRv2
82

Knowledge

GPT-4.1 mini

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

55.8

GPT-4.1 mini

62.4

68
MMLU
87.5
67
GPQA
64.2
65
SuperGPQA
Coming soon
63
OpenBookQA
Coming soon
75
MMLU-Pro
Coming soon
16
HLE
Coming soon
66
FrontierScience
61

Instruction Following

GPT-4.1 mini

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

86

GPT-4.1 mini

88.5

86
IFEval
88.5

Multilingual

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

81.5

GPT-4.1 mini

72

86
MGSM
Coming soon
79
MMLU-ProX
72

Mathematics

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

74.6

GPT-4.1 mini

23.1

67
AIME 2023
Coming soon
69
AIME 2024
23.1
68
AIME 2025
Coming soon
63
HMMT Feb 2023
Coming soon
65
HMMT Feb 2024
Coming soon
64
HMMT Feb 2025
Coming soon
66
BRUMO 2025
Coming soon
85
MATH-500
Coming soon

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B or GPT-4.1 mini?

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B is ahead overall, 61 to 58. The biggest single separator in this matchup is AIME 2024, where the scores are 69 and 23.1.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B or GPT-4.1 mini?

GPT-4.1 mini has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 62.4 versus 55.8. 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 GPT-4.1 mini?

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 44.2 versus 28.8. 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 GPT-4.1 mini?

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 74.6 versus 23.1. Inside this category, AIME 2024 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B or GPT-4.1 mini?

GPT-4.1 mini has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 80.9 versus 71.8. Inside this category, MRCRv2 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for agentic tasks, Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B or GPT-4.1 mini?

GPT-4.1 mini has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 56.5 versus 55.3. Inside this category, BrowseComp is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multimodal and grounded tasks, Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B or GPT-4.1 mini?

GPT-4.1 mini has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 69.6 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 GPT-4.1 mini?

GPT-4.1 mini has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 88.5 versus 86. 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 GPT-4.1 mini?

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 81.5 versus 72. Inside this category, MMLU-ProX is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 12, 2026

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