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NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

NVIDIA · 120B · A12B

Strongest in Secure code (#41 of 274), weakest in Jailbreak resistance (#250 of 272). Above par in 4 of 10 scopes. Among the models it meets almost everywhere, it finishes behind Grok 4.7 and MiniMax M2.7 and ahead of Grok 4 and Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct.

§ 1 · Profile

What it is good at

Bars run from 50 — the average of the models each source lists — so right of the line is above par. The middle column is the gap to whoever leads that scope.

Agents47.3−20.8#148/2681/5

Knowledge work45.9−27.7#101/1781/2

Human preference53.2−14.3#157/3421/1

Safety47.6−13.9#242/3371/3

Secure code62.6−3.9#41/2741/1

Toxicity avoidance56.4−2.6#63/2721/1

Fairness45.2−24.8#193/3001/2

Harm refusal45.2−16.4#242/3001/2

Jailbreak resistance31.9−33#250/2721/1

§ 2 · Head to head

What it beats, and what beats it

The same models turn up scope after scope. Counted once: where both were placed, who finished higher. Bars run right for NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B, left for the other.

OLMoE 1B-7B Instructwon 6 · lost 0

Laguna Xs 2.1won 6 · lost 0

Laguna S 2.1won 6 · lost 0

Smollm2 1.7B Instructwon 7 · lost 1

Gemma 7B Itwon 7 · lost 1

Nous Hermes 2 Mixtral 8x7b Dpowon 7 · lost 1

DBRX Instructwon 7 · lost 1

Jamba 1.5 Miniwon 7 · lost 1

OLMo 7B Instruct Hfwon 5 · lost 1

RakutenAI 7B Chatwon 5 · lost 1

SmolLM 1.7B Instructwon 5 · lost 1

PowerMoE 3Bwon 5 · lost 1

Phi 2won 5 · lost 1

Qwen2.5 7B Instructwon 5 · lost 1

H2o Danube3 500M Chatwon 5 · lost 1

PowerLM 3Bwon 5 · lost 1

GLM-4 9B Chatwon 5 · lost 1

CodeLlama 7B Instruct Hfwon 5 · lost 1

Qwen2.5 0.5B Instructwon 5 · lost 1

OLMo 2 7B Instructwon 5 · lost 1

DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 7Bwon 5 · lost 1

DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8Bwon 5 · lost 1

Open Mixtral 8x7bwon 5 · lost 1

Command Awon 7 · lost 2

Phi-4 Mini Instructwon 6 · lost 2

Qwen3 8Bwon 6 · lost 2

Gemma 2B Itwon 6 · lost 2

Zephyr 7B Betawon 6 · lost 2

Mistral 7B Instruct V0.2won 6 · lost 2

DeepSeek LLM 67B Chatwon 6 · lost 2

GPT-3.5 Turbowon 6 · lost 2

Command R Pluswon 6 · lost 2

Jamba 1.5 Largewon 6 · lost 2

Magistral Mediumwon 6 · lost 2

Command R7Bwon 5 · lost 2

Llama 3.1 8B Instructwon 7 · lost 3

Gemma 3 12B Itwon 7 · lost 3

Mistral Instruct v0.1 (7B)won 4 · lost 2

LFM2 350Mwon 4 · lost 2

RakutenAI 7B Instructwon 4 · lost 2

Falcon Mamba 7B Instructwon 4 · lost 2

SmolLM2 360M Instructwon 4 · lost 2

Mistral Instruct v0.3 (7B)won 4 · lost 2

Qwen2 7B Instructwon 4 · lost 2

Jamba Mini 1.7won 4 · lost 2

Magistral Smallwon 4 · lost 2

Aya 23 8Bwon 4 · lost 2

Falcon H1 0.5B Instructwon 4 · lost 2

H2o Danube3 4B Chatwon 4 · lost 2

Llama 3.1 Instruct Turbo (70B)won 4 · lost 2

Jamba 1.6 Miniwon 4 · lost 2

Jamba Large 1.7won 4 · lost 2

SmolLM 360M Instructwon 4 · lost 2

Open Codestral Mambawon 4 · lost 2

Qwen2.5 3B Instructwon 4 · lost 2

Llama 3.2 3B Instructwon 6 · lost 3

Nova Microwon 6 · lost 3

Grok 4.1 Fastwon 6 · lost 3

Gemma 4 12Bwon 5 · lost 3

Ling 3.0 Flashwon 5 · lost 3

Phi 3 Mini 128k Instructwon 5 · lost 3

Phi 3 Mini 4k Instructwon 5 · lost 3

Phi 3 Small 8k Instructwon 5 · lost 3

Granite 3.0 8B Instructwon 5 · lost 3

Qwen1.5 14B Chatwon 5 · lost 3

Phi 3 Medium 4k Instructwon 5 · lost 3

Llama 3.1 Tulu 3 8Bwon 5 · lost 3

Llama 3 8B Instructwon 5 · lost 3

Gemma 2 9B Itwon 5 · lost 3

QwQ 32Bwon 5 · lost 3

GPT-4won 6 · lost 4

GPT-4o Miniwon 6 · lost 4

Llama 4 Scout Instructwon 6 · lost 4

GPT-4.1 Nanowon 6 · lost 4

Llama 4 Maverick Instructwon 6 · lost 4

DeepSeek V3won 6 · lost 4

DeepSeek R1won 6 · lost 4

GLM-5.2won 6 · lost 4

Granite 3.2 8B Instructwon 4 · lost 3

Llama 3.2 1B Instructwon 5 · lost 4

Granite 3.1 8B Instructwon 5 · lost 4

Nova Prowon 5 · lost 4

Gemma 3 4B Itwon 5 · lost 4

Mistral Smallwon 5 · lost 4

Qwen3 30B A3B Instructwon 5 · lost 4

Grok 4won 5 · lost 4

SEA LION V1 7B ITwon 3 · lost 3

LFM2 700Mwon 3 · lost 3

NexusRaven V2 13Bwon 3 · lost 3

Mimo V2.6 Pro Ultraspeedwon 3 · lost 3

LFM2 1.2Bwon 3 · lost 3

Aya 23 35Bwon 3 · lost 3

Granite 3.0 1B A400M Instructwon 3 · lost 3

Jamba Instructwon 3 · lost 3

SeaLLMs V3 7B Chatwon 3 · lost 3

Qwen2.5 7B Instruct 1Mwon 3 · lost 3

Qwen2.5 1.5B Instructwon 3 · lost 3

WizardLM 2.8x22Bwon 3 · lost 3

Llama 3.3 Instruct Turbo (70B)won 3 · lost 3

Open Mixtral 8x22bwon 3 · lost 3

Gemma2 9B Cpt Sea Lionv3 Instructwon 3 · lost 3

DeepSeek Chatwon 3 · lost 3

Qwen2.5 32B Instructwon 3 · lost 3

Qwen2 VL 72Bwon 3 · lost 3

GLM-5 Turbowon 3 · lost 3

Sarvam 30Bwon 3 · lost 3

Qwen2.5 14B Instructwon 3 · lost 3

Phi 3 Medium 128k Instructwon 3 · lost 3

Llama 3 70B Chat HFwon 3 · lost 3

Phi 3 Small 128k Instructwon 3 · lost 3

Phi 3.5 Mini Instructwon 3 · lost 3

K2 Chatwon 3 · lost 3

Llama 3.1 Tulu 3 8B SFTwon 3 · lost 3

Krutrim 2 Instructwon 3 · lost 3

Llama 3 8B Chat Hfwon 3 · lost 3

Titan Text Express V1won 3 · lost 3

Gemma 4 E2Bwon 4 · lost 4

Gemma 4 E4Bwon 4 · lost 4

Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B A55Bwon 4 · lost 4

Grok Build 0.1won 4 · lost 4

Ling 3.0 Flash VLwon 4 · lost 4

Granite 3.0 2B Instructwon 4 · lost 4

Granite 3.1 2B Instructwon 4 · lost 4

Nova Litewon 4 · lost 4

Claude 3 Haikuwon 4 · lost 4

Mistral Small 24B Instructwon 4 · lost 4

Gemini 1.5 Flashwon 4 · lost 4

Qwen Maxwon 4 · lost 4

O1 Miniwon 4 · lost 4

Gemini 1.5 Prowon 4 · lost 4

Gemini 2.0 Flash Litewon 4 · lost 4

Grok 3won 4 · lost 4

Mimo V2.6 Flashwon 4 · lost 4

GPT OSS 20Bwon 5 · lost 5

Claude 3.5 Haikuwon 5 · lost 5

GLM-4.6won 5 · lost 5

Gemini 2.5 Prowon 5 · lost 5

Gemma 4 31Bwon 5 · lost 5

Gemini 3.5 Flashwon 5 · lost 5

Gemini 3.6 Flashwon 5 · lost 5

Phi 4won 4 · lost 5

Mistral Largewon 4 · lost 5

O3 Miniwon 4 · lost 6

Gemma 3 27B Itwon 4 · lost 6

Grok 4.3won 4 · lost 6

Starling Lm 7B Betawon 3 · lost 5

Gemma 2 2B Itwon 3 · lost 5

C4ai Aya Expanse 8Bwon 3 · lost 5

Qwen2 72B Instructwon 3 · lost 5

C4ai Aya Expanse 32Bwon 3 · lost 5

Llama 3 70B Instructwon 3 · lost 5

Claude 3 Sonnetwon 3 · lost 5

Qwen2.5 72B Instructwon 3 · lost 5

Claude 3 Opuswon 3 · lost 5

GPT-4 Turbowon 3 · lost 5

GPT-4owon 3 · lost 5

MiniMax M2won 3 · lost 5

GLM-4.5won 3 · lost 5

DeepSeek V3p1won 2 · lost 4

Jamba 1.6 Largewon 2 · lost 4

Yi 1.5 9B Chatwon 2 · lost 4

Sarvam 1won 2 · lost 4

DeepSeek Reasonerwon 2 · lost 4

Komodo 7B Basewon 2 · lost 4

IBM Granite 4.0 Microwon 2 · lost 4

Hunyuan A13B Instructwon 2 · lost 4

Granite 3.2 2B Instructwon 2 · lost 4

Fuguwon 2 · lost 4

Granite 3.0 3B A800M Instructwon 2 · lost 4

Llama 3.1 Instruct Turbo (8B)won 2 · lost 4

Llama 3.1 Instruct Turbo (405B)won 2 · lost 4

Reflection Llama 3.1 70Bwon 2 · lost 4

LongWriter Glm4 9Bwon 2 · lost 4

Qwen2.5 14B Instruct 1Mwon 2 · lost 4

Granite 3.1 3B A800M Instructwon 2 · lost 4

Qwen 2.5 Instruct Turbo (7B)won 2 · lost 4

GPT-5.6 Astrawon 2 · lost 4

Kimi K2 Thinkingwon 2 · lost 4

EAI Llama 3.1 8B Instruct SageAlignwon 2 · lost 4

SeaLLM 7B V2won 2 · lost 4

Granite 4.0 H Microwon 2 · lost 4

Llama 3.1 Tulu 3 8B DPOwon 2 · lost 4

EAI SageAlign 8B LoRAwon 2 · lost 4

Llama 3.2 Vision (11B)won 2 · lost 4

Internlm2 Chat 20Bwon 2 · lost 4

Llama 2 70B Chat Hfwon 2 · lost 4

Llama 2 13B Chat Hfwon 2 · lost 4

Fugu Ultra V2won 2 · lost 4

Llama 3 8B Instruct RRwon 2 · lost 4

Llama 3 8B Instruct MopeyMulewon 2 · lost 4

Llama 3.2 90B Vision Instruct Turbowon 2 · lost 4

Qwen 2.5 Instruct Turbo (72B)won 2 · lost 4

GPT-5 Nanowon 3 · lost 6

GPT OSS 120Bwon 3 · lost 7

GPT-4.1 Miniwon 3 · lost 7

DeepSeek V3.2won 3 · lost 7

Gemma 4 26B A4Bwon 3 · lost 7

DeepSeek V4 Flashwon 3 · lost 7

Kimi K2.6won 3 · lost 7

Qwen3.7 Maxwon 3 · lost 7

Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinkingwon 2 · lost 5

Gemma 2 27B Itwon 2 · lost 6

Gemini 2.0 Flashwon 2 · lost 6

O1won 2 · lost 6

Qwen3 Vl 235B A22B Instructwon 2 · lost 6

Claude 3.7 Sonnetwon 2 · lost 7

O4 Miniwon 2 · lost 7

Gemini 2.5 Flashwon 2 · lost 7

GPT-4.1won 2 · lost 7

Qwen3 235B A22B Instructwon 2 · lost 7

GPT-5 Miniwon 2 · lost 8

MiniMax M3won 2 · lost 8

GPT-6 Solwon 2 · lost 8

Hy3won 2 · lost 8

DeepSeek V4 Prowon 2 · lost 8

GLM-5.1won 2 · lost 8

GLM-5.3 Flashwon 2 · lost 8

GPT-5.4won 2 · lost 8

Mimo V2.6 Prowon 2 · lost 8

Muse Spark 1.1won 2 · lost 8

Dolphin 2.5 Mixtral 8x7bwon 1 · lost 5

Apertus 8B Instructwon 1 · lost 5

Qwen2 57B A14B Instructwon 1 · lost 5

Smaug Llama 3 70B Instructwon 1 · lost 5

GPT OSS Safeguard 20Bwon 1 · lost 5

Apertus 70B Instructwon 1 · lost 5

Granite 4.0 H Tinywon 1 · lost 5

Phi 3.5 MoE Instructwon 1 · lost 5

Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70B Instruct HFwon 1 · lost 5

Nova Premierwon 1 · lost 5

Granite 4.0 H Smallwon 1 · lost 5

Llama 2 7B Chat Hfwon 1 · lost 5

Sarvam 105Bwon 1 · lost 5

Foundation Sec 8B Instructwon 1 · lost 5

Meta SecAlign 8Bwon 1 · lost 5

Mistral NeMo Minitron 8B Instructwon 1 · lost 5

Claude Opus 4.6won 1 · lost 5

Kimi K2.7 Codewon 1 · lost 7

Claude 3.5 Sonnetwon 1 · lost 7

Qwen3.5 27Bwon 1 · lost 7

Claude Opus 4won 1 · lost 7

Claude Sonnet 4.6won 1 · lost 7

Kimi K2won 1 · lost 8

O3won 1 · lost 8

GPT-5.2won 1 · lost 8

Claude Sonnet 4won 1 · lost 9

Claude Haiku 4.5won 1 · lost 9

Qwen3.5 122B A10Bwon 1 · lost 9

GPT-5won 1 · lost 9

GPT-6 Lunawon 1 · lost 9

Inklingwon 1 · lost 9

Qwen3.5 397B A17Bwon 1 · lost 9

Kimi K2.5won 1 · lost 9

Grok 4.6won 1 · lost 9

GPT-5.6 Lunawon 1 · lost 9

GPT-5.1won 1 · lost 9

Claude Sonnet 4.5won 1 · lost 9

Claude Sonnet 5won 1 · lost 9

Grok 4.5won 1 · lost 9

GPT-5.6 Terrawon 1 · lost 9

Mimo V2.5 Prowon 1 · lost 9

Qwen3.8 Maxwon 1 · lost 9

Claude Opus 4.8won 1 · lost 9

GPT-5.5won 1 · lost 9

GPT-5.6 Solwon 1 · lost 9

Claude Opus 5won 1 · lost 9

Gemini 3.8 Flashwon 1 · lost 9

Claude Opus 4.7won 1 · lost 9

Claude Opus 5.5won 1 · lost 9

Cogito 671B V2 P1won 0 · lost 6

Apriel 1.5 15B Thinkerwon 0 · lost 6

Gemini 2.5 Flash Litewon 0 · lost 6

Gemini 3 Prowon 0 · lost 6

Qwen3.5 35B A3Bwon 0 · lost 10

MiniMax M2.7won 0 · lost 10

Grok 4.7won 0 · lost 10

§ 3 · Sources

Where the numbers come from

3 publications, 8 figures. Every one links to the page it was read from.

LMArena Text ↗1 measureread 2026-09-26

LMArena Text 1360

GDPval-AA ↗1 measureread 2026-09-26

GDPval-AA 477

Enkrypt AI Safety Leaderboard ↗6 measuresread 2026-09-26

Enkrypt · Jailbreak risk 28.1%Enkrypt · Harmful content risk 7.8%Enkrypt · CBRN risk 49.2%Enkrypt · Toxicity risk 1.8%Enkrypt · Bias risk 85.3%Enkrypt · Insecure code risk 8%

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