Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B vs GPT-4o mini

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 52. 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 reasoning, where it averages 71.8 against 49.4. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is HumanEval, 59 to 87.2. GPT-4o mini does hit back in coding, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.

GPT-4o mini is also the more expensive model on tokens at $0.15 input / $0.60 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. Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B gives you the larger context window at 256K, compared with 128K for GPT-4o mini.

Quick Verdict

Pick Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. GPT-4o mini only becomes the better choice if coding is the priority.

Agentic

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

55.3

GPT-4o mini

50.9

55
Terminal-Bench 2.0
58
59
BrowseComp
49
53
OSWorld-Verified
44

Coding

GPT-4o mini

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

44.2

GPT-4o mini

65

59
HumanEval
87.2
46
SWE-bench Verified
Coming soon
42
LiveCodeBench
Coming soon
46
SWE-bench Pro
65

Multimodal & Grounded

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

60.4

GPT-4o mini

60.2

55
MMMU-Pro
66
67
OfficeQA Pro
53

Reasoning

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

71.8

GPT-4o mini

49.4

64
SimpleQA
Coming soon
62
MuSR
Coming soon
88
BBH
Coming soon
77
LongBench v2
49
77
MRCRv2
50

Knowledge

GPT-4o mini

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

55.8

GPT-4o mini

62

68
MMLU
82
67
GPQA
Coming soon
65
SuperGPQA
Coming soon
63
OpenBookQA
Coming soon
75
MMLU-Pro
Coming soon
16
HLE
Coming soon
66
FrontierScience
62

Instruction Following

Coming soon

Comparable scores for this category are coming soon. One or both models do not have sourced results here yet.

86
IFEval
Coming soon

Multilingual

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

81.5

GPT-4o mini

74.7

86
MGSM
87
79
MMLU-ProX
68

Mathematics

Coming soon

Comparable scores for this category are coming soon. One or both models do not have sourced results here yet.

67
AIME 2023
Coming soon
69
AIME 2024
Coming soon
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-4o mini?

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B is ahead overall, 61 to 52. The biggest single separator in this matchup is HumanEval, where the scores are 59 and 87.2.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B or GPT-4o mini?

GPT-4o mini has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 62 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-4o mini?

GPT-4o mini has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 65 versus 44.2. Inside this category, HumanEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B or GPT-4o mini?

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 71.8 versus 49.4. Inside this category, LongBench v2 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for agentic tasks, Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B or GPT-4o mini?

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 55.3 versus 50.9. 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-4o mini?

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 60.4 versus 60.2. Inside this category, OfficeQA Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multilingual tasks, Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B or GPT-4o mini?

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 81.5 versus 74.7. Inside this category, MMLU-ProX is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 12, 2026

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