Head-to-head comparison
Nemotron 3 Super (NVIDIA) and Nemotron Nano 12B 2 VL (NVIDIA) compared on the ModelCap Index, API price, context window, provider availability, weight access and every public benchmark board they share. Figures are the same ones shown on the live rankings; nothing here is a hidden score.
Snapshot as of 17 August 2026
As of 17 August 2026, Nemotron 3 Super holds the stronger ModelCap Index position (#75 vs #223); Nemotron Nano 12B 2 VL is cheaper per output token (Free/1M vs $0.40/1M); and Nemotron 3 Super offers the longer context window (1M vs 128K tokens).
Evidence: 3 public benchmark observations across 3 boards · 1 public benchmark observation across 1 board. Prices are the lowest listed API offer per million tokens observed on the OpenRouter catalogue.
Scores are the sources' own published figures for each model's best evaluated configuration; ModelCap never re-runs a benchmark.
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Nemotron 3 Super ranks higher on the ModelCap Index as of 17 August 2026: #75 against #223. That is a capability ranking built from public benchmark evidence with published uncertainty; whether it is "better" for you also depends on price, context and where you can run it.
Nemotron Nano 12B 2 VL is cheaper on output tokens: Free/1M against $0.40/1M. Input tokens are $0.085/1M for Nemotron 3 Super and Free/1M for Nemotron Nano 12B 2 VL. Prices are the lowest listed API offer ModelCap observed, in USD per million tokens.
Nemotron 3 Super has the larger context window: 1M tokens against 128K.
The two models do not share a coding benchmark board on ModelCap yet, so no head-to-head coding score is published; the ModelCap Index position is the closest overall signal.
Nemotron 3 Super: Restricted license. Nemotron Nano 12B 2 VL: Restricted license. Open weights mean the checkpoint can be downloaded and self-hosted under its licence; API-only models are available solely through hosted endpoints.
ModelCap currently lists 3 API providers for Nemotron 3 Super and 1 for Nemotron Nano 12B 2 VL, from the OpenRouter catalogue snapshot the site serves; each model page lists the providers and their prices.
Every figure comes from the sealed ModelCap dataset published 17 August 2026; the page re-renders within a minute of each data refresh, and the ModelCap Index positions are the same ones shown on the live rankings.