# Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B NVFP4 vs Sakana Fugu

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

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

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 6
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5.8

## Quick Verdict

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

## Summary

- Sakana Fugu leads overall 70 to 58.
- The clearest category separation is in multimodal & grounded, where the averages are 59.5 for Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B NVFP4 and 73.2 for Sakana Fugu.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is Terminal-Bench 2.1 in Agentic, with scores of 60.8% and 80.2%.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B NVFP4 | Sakana Fugu |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | NVIDIA | Sakana AI |
| Type | Open Weight | Proprietary |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 1M | 1M |
| Overall Score | null | null |
| Benchmarks Covered | 18 | 11 |
| Pricing (input/output) | Pricing unavailable / Pricing unavailable | Pricing unavailable / Pricing unavailable |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Not comparable
- Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B NVFP4 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Sakana Fugu public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B NVFP4 | Sakana Fugu | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 60.8% | 80.2% | Sakana Fugu |
| τ²-bench Airline | 75.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| τ³-bench results | 17.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| BrowseComp | 77.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Not comparable
- Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B NVFP4 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Sakana Fugu public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B NVFP4 | Sakana Fugu | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| LiveCodeBench v6 | 87.4% | 92.9% | Sakana Fugu |
| SWE-bench Verified | 71.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE Multilingual | 67% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Pro | 51.3% | 59% | Sakana Fugu |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | Coming soon | 80.2% | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench Pro | Coming soon | 87.8% | Coming soon |
| SciCode | Coming soon | 60.1% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Not comparable
- Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B NVFP4 public-lane score: 72.4 (Unranked · 1 rankable row)
- Sakana Fugu public-lane score: 78.7 (Unranked · 1 rankable row)

| Benchmark | Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B NVFP4 | Sakana Fugu | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MRCRv2 | Coming soon | 86.6% | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Not comparable
- Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B NVFP4 public-lane score: 59.5 (Unranked · 5 rankable rows)
- Sakana Fugu public-lane score: 73.2 (Unranked · 1 rankable row)

| Benchmark | Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B NVFP4 | Sakana Fugu | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| BabyVision | 29.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMLongBench-Doc | 62.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| V* | 86.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MathVision | 77.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| CharXiv | 79.9% | 85.1% | Sakana Fugu |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Not comparable
- Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B NVFP4 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Sakana Fugu public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B NVFP4 | Sakana Fugu | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA-D | 89.9% | 95.5% | Sakana Fugu |
| HLE w/o tools | 31.4% | 47.2% | Sakana Fugu |
| HLE | 29% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| GPQA | Coming soon | 95.5% | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Not comparable
- Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B NVFP4 public-lane score: 68.1 (#71/146)
- Sakana Fugu public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B NVFP4 | Sakana Fugu | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFBench | 71.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Not comparable
- Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B NVFP4 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Sakana Fugu public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B NVFP4 | Sakana Fugu | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Apex Shortlist | 89.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Which is better overall, Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B NVFP4 or Sakana Fugu?

Sakana Fugu is ahead overall on BenchLM right now.

### Where is the biggest gap between Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B NVFP4 and Sakana Fugu?

The widest category gap is in multimodal & grounded, where the averages are 59.5 for Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B NVFP4 and 73.2 for Sakana Fugu.

### 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.

### How many benchmarks does Sakana Fugu cover on BenchLM?

Sakana Fugu currently has 11 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

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