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

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 33. 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 coding, where it averages 41.3 against 8.2. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is HumanEval, 57 to 17.

LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking is the reasoning model in the pair, while Nemotron 3 Super 100B is not. That usually helps on harder chain-of-thought-heavy tests, but it can also mean more latency and more token spend in real use. Nemotron 3 Super 100B gives you the larger context window at 1M, compared with 32K for LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking.

Quick Verdict

Pick Nemotron 3 Super 100B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking only becomes the better choice if you want the stronger reasoning-first profile.

Agentic

Nemotron 3 Super 100B

Nemotron 3 Super 100B

56.6

LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking

34.1

56
Terminal-Bench 2.0
34
61
BrowseComp
37
54
OSWorld-Verified
32

Coding

Nemotron 3 Super 100B

Nemotron 3 Super 100B

41.3

LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking

8.2

57
HumanEval
17
44
SWE-bench Verified
10
38
LiveCodeBench
9
44
SWE-bench Pro
7

Multimodal & Grounded

Nemotron 3 Super 100B

Nemotron 3 Super 100B

60.4

LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking

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-Thinking

38.4

62
SimpleQA
29
60
MuSR
31
83
BBH
67
75
LongBench v2
39
75
MRCRv2
42

Knowledge

Nemotron 3 Super 100B

Nemotron 3 Super 100B

52.8

LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking

27

65
MMLU
27
64
GPQA
26
62
SuperGPQA
24
60
OpenBookQA
22
72
MMLU-Pro
51
13
HLE
2
63
FrontierScience
31

Instruction Following

Nemotron 3 Super 100B

Nemotron 3 Super 100B

84

LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking

72

84
IFEval
72

Multilingual

Nemotron 3 Super 100B

Nemotron 3 Super 100B

79.5

LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking

60.7

84
MGSM
62
77
MMLU-ProX
60

Mathematics

Nemotron 3 Super 100B

Nemotron 3 Super 100B

72.6

LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking

42.3

65
AIME 2023
28
67
AIME 2024
30
66
AIME 2025
29
61
HMMT Feb 2023
24
63
HMMT Feb 2024
26
62
HMMT Feb 2025
25
64
BRUMO 2025
27
83
MATH-500
61

Frequently Asked Questions

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

Nemotron 3 Super 100B is ahead overall, 59 to 33. The biggest single separator in this matchup is HumanEval, where the scores are 57 and 17.

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

Nemotron 3 Super 100B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 52.8 versus 27. 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-Thinking?

Nemotron 3 Super 100B has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 41.3 versus 8.2. 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-Thinking?

Nemotron 3 Super 100B has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 72.6 versus 42.3. 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-Thinking?

Nemotron 3 Super 100B has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 69.5 versus 38.4. Inside this category, LongBench v2 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

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

Nemotron 3 Super 100B has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 56.6 versus 34.1. 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 100B or LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking?

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-Thinking?

Nemotron 3 Super 100B has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 84 versus 72. 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-Thinking?

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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