# Claude Opus 4.5 vs Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B NVFP4

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Claude Opus 4.5 and Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B NVFP4 across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/claude-opus-4-5-vs-nemotron-3-5-super-vl-120b-a12b-nvfp4
- Last updated: October 15, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 10
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5.8

## Quick Verdict

Pick Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B NVFP4 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Claude Opus 4.5 only makes more sense when its price, context window, or workload-specific category wins matter more than the overall score.

## Summary

- Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B NVFP4 leads overall 58 to 54.05.
- The clearest category separation is in instruction following, where the averages are 31.9 for Claude Opus 4.5 and 68.1 for Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B NVFP4.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is τ³-bench results in Agentic, with scores of 70.2% and 17.8%.
- Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B NVFP4 is the cheaper option on output tokens, which matters if you expect large responses or heavy interactive use.
- Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B NVFP4 also has the larger context window at 1M.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Claude Opus 4.5 | Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B NVFP4 |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Anthropic | NVIDIA |
| Type | Proprietary | Open Weight |
| Reasoning | Non-Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 200K | 1M |
| Overall Score | 54.05 | null |
| Benchmarks Covered | 61 | 18 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $5.00 / $25.00 | Pricing unavailable / Pricing unavailable |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Not comparable
- Claude Opus 4.5 public-lane score: 32.5 (Estimated · #88/127)
- Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B NVFP4 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.5 | Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B NVFP4 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 59.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| OSWorld-Verified | 66.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| OSWorld | 66.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Claw-Eval | 59.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| QwenClawBench | 52.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| τ³-bench results | 70.2% | 17.8% | Claude Opus 4.5 |
| VITA-Bench | 23.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| DeepPlanning | 26.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Toolathlon | 43.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MCP Atlas | 42.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MCP-Tasks | 71.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| WideResearch | 76.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| CyberGym | 50.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Gert Labs | 64.23% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| JobBench | 32.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | Coming soon | 60.8% | Coming soon |
| τ²-bench Airline | Coming soon | 75.8% | Coming soon |
| BrowseComp | Coming soon | 77.5% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Not comparable
- Claude Opus 4.5 public-lane score: 40.3 (Estimated · #65/150)
- Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B NVFP4 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.5 | Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B NVFP4 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| SWE-bench Verified | 80.9% | 71.1% | Claude Opus 4.5 |
| LiveCodeBench v6 | 84.8% | 87.4% | Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B NVFP4 |
| SWE-bench Pro | 57.1% | 51.3% | Claude Opus 4.5 |
| SWE Multilingual | 77.5% | 67% | Claude Opus 4.5 |
| NL2Repo | 43.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 59.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Not comparable
- Claude Opus 4.5 public-lane score: 78.3 (Unranked · 4 rankable rows)
- Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B NVFP4 public-lane score: 72.4 (Unranked · 1 rankable row)

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.5 | Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B NVFP4 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| LongBench v2 | 64.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| AI-Needle | 74% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Not comparable
- Claude Opus 4.5 public-lane score: 48.6 (#49/54)
- Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B NVFP4 public-lane score: 59.5 (Unranked · 5 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.5 | Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B NVFP4 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMMU | 80.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMMU-Pro | 70.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| RealWorldQA | 77.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| OmniDocBench 1.5 | 87.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Video-MME (with subtitle) | 77.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Video-MME (w/o subtitle) | 81.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MathVision | 74.3% | 77.8% | Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B NVFP4 |
| We-Math | 70.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| DynaMath | 79.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SimpleVQA | 65.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| CharXiv | 68.5% | 79.9% | Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B NVFP4 |
| CountBench | 90.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| AI2D_TEST | 87.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ERQA | 46.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| VideoMMMU | 84.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MLVU (M-Avg) | 81.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ScreenSpot Pro | 45.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| V* | 67.0% | 86.0% | Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B NVFP4 |
| BabyVision | Coming soon | 29.5% | Coming soon |
| MMLongBench-Doc | Coming soon | 62.8% | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Not comparable
- Claude Opus 4.5 public-lane score: 51.1 (Estimated · #77/184)
- Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B NVFP4 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.5 | Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B NVFP4 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA | 87% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SuperGPQA | 70.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro | 89.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Redux | 96.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| C-Eval | 92.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HLE | 30.8% | 29% | Claude Opus 4.5 |
| GPQA-D | Coming soon | 89.9% | Coming soon |
| HLE w/o tools | Coming soon | 31.4% | Coming soon |

### Multilingual

- Winner: Not comparable
- Claude Opus 4.5 public-lane score: 96.5 (#2/17)
- Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B NVFP4 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.5 | Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B NVFP4 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMLU-ProX | 85.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| NOVA-63 | 56.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| INCLUDE | 86.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| PolyMath | 79.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MAXIFE | 79.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B NVFP4
- Claude Opus 4.5 public-lane score: 31.9 (#129/146)
- Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B NVFP4 public-lane score: 68.1 (#71/146)

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.5 | Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B NVFP4 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFEval | 90.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| IFBench | 58% | 71.5% | Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B NVFP4 |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Not comparable
- Claude Opus 4.5 public-lane score: 61.3 (#9/12)
- Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B NVFP4 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.5 | Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B NVFP4 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| AIME26 | 95.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HMMT Feb 2025 | 92.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HMMT Nov 2025 | 93.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HMMT Feb 2026 | 85.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMAnswerBench | 84.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| FrontierMath v2 (Tiers 1-3) | 34.386% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| FrontierMath v2 (Tier 4) | 4.878% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Apex Shortlist | Coming soon | 89.4% | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Which is better overall, Claude Opus 4.5 or Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B NVFP4?

Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B NVFP4 is ahead overall on BenchLM right now.

### Where is the biggest gap between Claude Opus 4.5 and Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B NVFP4?

The widest category gap is in instruction following, where the averages are 31.9 for Claude Opus 4.5 and 68.1 for Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B NVFP4.

### How many benchmarks does Claude Opus 4.5 cover on BenchLM?

Claude Opus 4.5 currently has 61 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

### How many benchmarks does Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B NVFP4 cover on BenchLM?

Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B NVFP4 currently has 18 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

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