Nemotron 3 Super 100B vs LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct

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

Nemotron 3 Super 100B is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 59 to 30. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

Nemotron 3 Super 100B's sharpest advantage is in reasoning, where it averages 69.5 against 32.1. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is HumanEval, 57 to 14.

Nemotron 3 Super 100B gives you the larger context window at 1M, compared with 32K for LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct.

Quick Verdict

Pick Nemotron 3 Super 100B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct only becomes the better choice if its workflow or ecosystem matters more than the raw scoreboard.

Agentic

Nemotron 3 Super 100B

Nemotron 3 Super 100B

56.6

LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct

25.7

56
Terminal-Bench 2.0
22
61
BrowseComp
31
54
OSWorld-Verified
26

Coding

Nemotron 3 Super 100B

Nemotron 3 Super 100B

41.3

LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct

7.2

57
HumanEval
14
44
SWE-bench Verified
9
38
LiveCodeBench
8
44
SWE-bench Pro
6

Multimodal & Grounded

Nemotron 3 Super 100B

Nemotron 3 Super 100B

60.4

LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct

32.4

55
MMMU-Pro
27
67
OfficeQA Pro
39

Reasoning

Nemotron 3 Super 100B

Nemotron 3 Super 100B

69.5

LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct

32.1

62
SimpleQA
24
60
MuSR
22
83
BBH
59
75
LongBench v2
34
75
MRCRv2
37

Knowledge

Nemotron 3 Super 100B

Nemotron 3 Super 100B

52.8

LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct

26

65
MMLU
26
64
GPQA
25
62
SuperGPQA
23
60
OpenBookQA
21
72
MMLU-Pro
50
13
HLE
1
63
FrontierScience
30

Instruction Following

Nemotron 3 Super 100B

Nemotron 3 Super 100B

84

LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct

80

84
IFEval
80

Multilingual

Nemotron 3 Super 100B

Nemotron 3 Super 100B

79.5

LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct

60.7

84
MGSM
62
77
MMLU-ProX
60

Mathematics

Nemotron 3 Super 100B

Nemotron 3 Super 100B

72.6

LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct

37

65
AIME 2023
24
67
AIME 2024
26
66
AIME 2025
25
61
HMMT Feb 2023
20
63
HMMT Feb 2024
22
62
HMMT Feb 2025
21
64
BRUMO 2025
23
83
MATH-500
54

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, Nemotron 3 Super 100B or LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct?

Nemotron 3 Super 100B is ahead overall, 59 to 30. The biggest single separator in this matchup is HumanEval, where the scores are 57 and 14.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Nemotron 3 Super 100B or LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct?

Nemotron 3 Super 100B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 52.8 versus 26. Inside this category, MMLU is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, Nemotron 3 Super 100B or LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct?

Nemotron 3 Super 100B has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 41.3 versus 7.2. Inside this category, HumanEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for math, Nemotron 3 Super 100B or LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct?

Nemotron 3 Super 100B has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 72.6 versus 37. Inside this category, AIME 2023 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, Nemotron 3 Super 100B or LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct?

Nemotron 3 Super 100B has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 69.5 versus 32.1. Inside this category, LongBench v2 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for agentic tasks, Nemotron 3 Super 100B or LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct?

Nemotron 3 Super 100B has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 56.6 versus 25.7. Inside this category, Terminal-Bench 2.0 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multimodal and grounded tasks, Nemotron 3 Super 100B or LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct?

Nemotron 3 Super 100B has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 60.4 versus 32.4. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for instruction following, Nemotron 3 Super 100B or LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct?

Nemotron 3 Super 100B has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 84 versus 80. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multilingual tasks, Nemotron 3 Super 100B or LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct?

Nemotron 3 Super 100B has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 79.5 versus 60.7. Inside this category, MGSM is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 12, 2026

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