Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B vs MiniMax M2.5

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 59. 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 coding, where it averages 44.2 against 38.7. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is LongBench v2, 77 to 66. MiniMax M2.5 does hit back in multimodal & grounded, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.

MiniMax M2.5 is also the more expensive model on tokens at $0.30 input / $1.20 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 MiniMax M2.5.

Quick Verdict

Pick Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. MiniMax M2.5 only becomes the better choice if multimodal & grounded is the priority.

Agentic

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

55.3

MiniMax M2.5

53.4

55
Terminal-Bench 2.0
51
59
BrowseComp
62
53
OSWorld-Verified
50

Coding

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

44.2

MiniMax M2.5

38.7

59
HumanEval
65
46
SWE-bench Verified
45
42
LiveCodeBench
35
46
SWE-bench Pro
41

Multimodal & Grounded

MiniMax M2.5

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

60.4

MiniMax M2.5

62

55
MMMU-Pro
57
67
OfficeQA Pro
68

Reasoning

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

71.8

MiniMax M2.5

69.6

64
SimpleQA
70
62
MuSR
68
88
BBH
83
77
LongBench v2
66
77
MRCRv2
69

Knowledge

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

55.8

MiniMax M2.5

55.3

68
MMLU
73
67
GPQA
72
65
SuperGPQA
70
63
OpenBookQA
68
75
MMLU-Pro
73
16
HLE
10
66
FrontierScience
66

Instruction Following

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

86

MiniMax M2.5

85

86
IFEval
85

Multilingual

MiniMax M2.5

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

81.5

MiniMax M2.5

82.1

86
MGSM
84
79
MMLU-ProX
81

Mathematics

MiniMax M2.5

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

74.6

MiniMax M2.5

76.1

67
AIME 2023
73
69
AIME 2024
75
68
AIME 2025
74
63
HMMT Feb 2023
69
65
HMMT Feb 2024
71
64
HMMT Feb 2025
70
66
BRUMO 2025
72
85
MATH-500
81

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B or MiniMax M2.5?

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B is ahead overall, 61 to 59. The biggest single separator in this matchup is LongBench v2, where the scores are 77 and 66.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B or MiniMax M2.5?

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 55.8 versus 55.3. 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 MiniMax M2.5?

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 44.2 versus 38.7. Inside this category, LiveCodeBench is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for math, Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B or MiniMax M2.5?

MiniMax M2.5 has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 76.1 versus 74.6. Inside this category, AIME 2023 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B or MiniMax M2.5?

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 71.8 versus 69.6. 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 MiniMax M2.5?

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 55.3 versus 53.4. 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 120B A12B or MiniMax M2.5?

MiniMax M2.5 has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 62 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 MiniMax M2.5?

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 86 versus 85. 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 MiniMax M2.5?

MiniMax M2.5 has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 82.1 versus 81.5. Inside this category, MGSM is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 12, 2026

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