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Nvidia Nemotron 3 Super 120B Thinking

Added Mar 1, 2026Open weights

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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

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Providernvidianvidia
Discovery tierOpen weightsOpen weights
AddedMar 1, 2026Aug 12, 2026
Limits
Context window262.14K1MBest
Max output16.38K65.54KBest
Average output621 tokens228 tokens
Pricing, USD per 1M tokens
Input$0.05$0.05
Output$0.25$0.20Best
Cache read—$0.01
Performance
Throughput—448.8 tok/s
Time to first token—1.1 s
Request success (24h)100.0%100.0%
Benchmark indexes
Intelligence Index12.812.9Best
Coding Index37.7Best26.8
Capabilities
ReasoningYesYes
ToolsNoYes
Parallel toolsNoYes
Reasoning effort—none, 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

Intelligence Index

  • Nvidia Nemotron 3 Super 120B Thinking12.8
  • Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Lightning12.9

Nvidia Nemotron 3 Super 120B Thinking: Better than 29% of 326 scored models

3.8Catalog models by score55.1

Indexes

  • Coding Index

    Composite of the coding evaluations

    • Nvidia Nemotron 3 Super 120B Thinking: 37.7Top
    • Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: 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: 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: 0.0%

  • AA-Briefcasev1.1

    Agentic knowledge work, rated head to head

    • Nvidia Nemotron 3 Super 120B Thinking: —
    • Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: 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: 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: 3.0%Top

  • AA-LCRv1.1

    Reasoning across long documents

    • Nvidia Nemotron 3 Super 120B Thinking: 65.7%Top
    • Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: 60.3%

  • MLCR-AA

    Long-context reasoning over medical records

    • Nvidia Nemotron 3 Super 120B Thinking: —
    • Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: 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: 10.6%

  • GPQA Diamond

    Graduate-level science questions

    • Nvidia Nemotron 3 Super 120B Thinking: 80.0%Top
    • Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: 74.3%

  • IFBench

    Following precise output instructions

    • Nvidia Nemotron 3 Super 120B Thinking: 71.5%
    • Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: —

Coding

  • Terminal-Benchv4.0

    Practical software engineering in a terminal

    • Nvidia Nemotron 3 Super 120B Thinking: 0.0%
    • Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: 0.5%Top

  • SciCode

    Scientific computing in Python

    • Nvidia Nemotron 3 Super 120B Thinking: 36.2%Top
    • Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: 32.1%

Legacy evaluations

  • Terminal-Bench Hard

    Earlier terminal task suite

    • Nvidia Nemotron 3 Super 120B Thinking: 28.8%
    • Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: —

  • τ²-Bench Telecom

    Tool use in a customer-support simulation

    • Nvidia Nemotron 3 Super 120B Thinking: 67.8%
    • Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: —

  • AA-LCR (unversioned)

    Long-context reasoning, earlier grading

    • Nvidia Nemotron 3 Super 120B Thinking: 65.7%Top
    • Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: 60.3%

Scores from Artificial Analysis, updated Oct 26, 2026. Artificial Analysis

Live routing data

Performance and reliability

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Prompt cache hits
0.0%
Request success (24h)
100.0%
Reliable

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Hourly request success · last 72 hoursLowest hour 100.0%
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Developers

Use it through the API

Noumen’s API is OpenAI-compatible: any Chat Completions client works with a base URL and a key.

Read the quickstart
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)

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