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Nvidia Nemotron 3 Super 120B Thinking
Nvidia Nemotron 3 Super 120B with reasoning content enabled. Returns separate thinking content when requested.
- Reasoning
- Input
- Text
- Output
- Text
- Discovery tier
- Open weights
Pricing
USD per 1M tokens- Input
- $0.05
- Output
- $0.25
Reference prices as published by the model provider. API example
Specifications
- Context window
- 262.1K
- Max output
- 16.4K
- Average output (7 days)
- 621 tokens
- Longer than 57% of 468 models
Side by side
Nvidia Nemotron 3 Super 120B Thinking compared
Specifications, prices, speed and benchmark scores next to each other. Benchmarks below show every compared model too.
| Nvidia Nemotron 3 Super 120B ThinkingnvidiaThis model | Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Lightning TEEnvidiaRemove | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | nvidia | nvidia |
| Discovery tier | Open weights | Open weights |
| Added | Mar 1, 2026 | Sep 11, 2026 |
| Limits | ||
| Context window | 262.14K | 262.14K |
| Max output | 16.38K | 65.54KBest |
| Average output | 621 tokens | — |
| Pricing, USD per 1M tokens | ||
| Input | $0.05Best | $0.08 |
| Output | $0.25 | $0.20Best |
| Cache read | — | $0.04 |
| Performance | ||
| Request success (24h) | 100.0% | — |
| Benchmark indexes | ||
| Intelligence Index | 12.8 | 12.9Best |
| Coding Index | 37.7Best | 26.8 |
| Capabilities | ||
| Reasoning | Yes | Yes |
| Tools | No | Yes |
| Structured output | No | Yes |
| Reasoning effort | — | none, low, medium, high |
Public evaluations
Benchmarks
Independent evaluation results, with how each score ranks among the models in the Noumen catalog.
- Nvidia Nemotron 3 Super 120B Thinking
- Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Lightning TEE
Intelligence Index
- Nvidia Nemotron 3 Super 120B Thinking12.8
- Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Lightning TEE12.9
Nvidia Nemotron 3 Super 120B Thinking: Better than 29% of 326 scored models
Indexes
Coding Index
Composite of the coding evaluations
- Nvidia Nemotron 3 Super 120B Thinking: 37.7Top
- Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Lightning TEE: 26.8
Agentic work
AutomationBench-AA
Workflow automation, penalized for guardrail violations
- Nvidia Nemotron 3 Super 120B Thinking: 3.8%Top
- Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Lightning TEE: 0.8%
AutomationBench-AA tasks completed
Workflows finished end to end without a guardrail violation
- Nvidia Nemotron 3 Super 120B Thinking: 0.3%Top
- Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Lightning TEE: 0.0%
AA-Briefcasev1.1
Agentic knowledge work, rated head to head
- Nvidia Nemotron 3 Super 120B Thinking: —
- Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Lightning TEE: 506 Elo
GDPval-AAv2.1
Economically valuable occupational tasks, rated head to head
- Nvidia Nemotron 3 Super 120B Thinking: 490 Elo
- Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Lightning TEE: 638 EloTop
Document reasoning
GDP.pdf
Professional reasoning over PDF documents, all-pass rate
- Nvidia Nemotron 3 Super 120B Thinking: 2.6%
- Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Lightning TEE: 3.0%Top
AA-LCRv1.1
Reasoning across long documents
- Nvidia Nemotron 3 Super 120B Thinking: 65.7%Top
- Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Lightning TEE: 60.3%
MLCR-AA
Long-context reasoning over medical records
- Nvidia Nemotron 3 Super 120B Thinking: —
- Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Lightning TEE: 2.2%
Reasoning and knowledge
Humanity’s Last Exam
Expert-level questions across academic fields
- Nvidia Nemotron 3 Super 120B Thinking: 20.8%Top
- Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Lightning TEE: 10.6%
GPQA Diamond
Graduate-level science questions
- Nvidia Nemotron 3 Super 120B Thinking: 80.0%Top
- Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Lightning TEE: 74.3%
IFBench
Following precise output instructions
- Nvidia Nemotron 3 Super 120B Thinking: 71.5%
- Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Lightning TEE: —
Coding
Terminal-Benchv4.0
Practical software engineering in a terminal
- Nvidia Nemotron 3 Super 120B Thinking: 0.0%
- Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Lightning TEE: 0.5%Top
SciCode
Scientific computing in Python
- Nvidia Nemotron 3 Super 120B Thinking: 36.2%Top
- Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Lightning TEE: 32.1%
Legacy evaluations
Terminal-Bench Hard
Earlier terminal task suite
- Nvidia Nemotron 3 Super 120B Thinking: 28.8%
- Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Lightning TEE: —
τ²-Bench Telecom
Tool use in a customer-support simulation
- Nvidia Nemotron 3 Super 120B Thinking: 67.8%
- Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Lightning TEE: —
AA-LCR (unversioned)
Long-context reasoning, earlier grading
- Nvidia Nemotron 3 Super 120B Thinking: 65.7%Top
- Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Lightning TEE: 60.3%
Scores from Artificial Analysis, updated Oct 26, 2026. Artificial Analysis
Live routing data
Performance and reliability
Recent averages across requests routed for this model. Your own speed depends on prompt length, reasoning effort and load.
- Prompt cache hits
- 0.0%
- Request success (24h)
- 100.0%
- Reliable
Cache hits are the share of input tokens recently served from a prompt cache across all requests. They are not a forecast of your own hit rate.
- Healthy (98% or more)
- Degraded (90–98%)
- Down (under 90%)
- No requests
Developers
Use it through the API
Noumen’s API is OpenAI-compatible: any Chat Completions client works with a base URL and a key.
curl https://www.noumen.xyz/api/v1/chat/completions \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $NOUMEN_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"model": "nvidia/nemotron-3-super-120b-a12b:thinking",
"messages": [{ "role": "user", "content": "Explain this stack trace." }]
}'import os
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(base_url="https://www.noumen.xyz/api/v1", api_key=os.environ["NOUMEN_API_KEY"])
reply = client.chat.completions.create(
model="nvidia/nemotron-3-super-120b-a12b:thinking",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Explain this stack trace."}],
)
print(reply.choices[0].message.content)nvidia
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