Claude Opus 4.7 vs Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B
Wins 6 of 7 areas
Coding · Agents · Reasoning · Facts · Math · Long documents
Wins 1 of 7 areas
Following instructions
Claude Opus 4.7 is the stronger all-rounder.Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B is cheaper and better at following instructions.
Scores updated · 24 tests both models report · How we compare
Where each one wins
Tests won in each of the seven areas where both have results. Each piece is one test, so a longer bar means more evidence; grey means the two scored within a point of each other.
- CodingWriting and fixing software50Claude Opus 4.75 of 5 tests
- AgentsCarrying out multi-step tasks on its own40Claude Opus 4.74 of 4 tests
- ReasoningHard problems that need careful thinking30Claude Opus 4.73 of 3 tests
- FactsGetting facts right instead of making them up20Claude Opus 4.72 of 2 tests
- MathCompetition and research-level math20Claude Opus 4.72 of 2 tests
- Long documentsFinding answers in very long texts10Claude Opus 4.71 of 1 test
- Following instructionsDoing exactly what it is asked01Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B1 of 1 test
Long documents and following instructions rest on a single test each.
What it costs
Prices per million tokens, roughly 750,000 words. The bars show the cost of a million tokens read plus a million written.
Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B costs 96% less for the same work.
The biggest differences
The tests each model wins by the widest margin, up to three each. Scores are out of 100.
Where Claude Opus 4.7 pulls ahead
- Finds hard-to-locate facts by browsing the webBrowseComp+48points ahead
- Avoids making up answers it doesn't knowAA-Omniscience · Non-hallucination+44.7points ahead
- Command-line tasks in a real terminalTerminal-Bench 2.1+44.5points ahead
Where Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B pulls ahead
- Follows unfamiliar, precisely checkable instructionsIFBench+12.9points ahead
Every test, side by side
All 24 tests both models report. The winning score is in its model's colour; marks a score checked independently.
CodingClaude Opus 4.7
- Terminal-Bench 2.1Claude Opus 4.7 by 44.583.138.6+44.5
- SWE-bench MultilingualClaude Opus 4.7 by 34.780.545.8+34.7
- SWE-bench VerifiedClaude Opus 4.7 by 33.987.653.7+33.9
- Terminal-Bench HardClaude Opus 4.7 by 22.751.528.8+22.7
- SciCodeClaude Opus 4.7 by 18.354.536.2+18.3
AgentsClaude Opus 4.7
- BrowseCompClaude Opus 4.7 by 4879.331.3+48
- GDPValClaude Opus 4.7 by 42.642.60+42.6
- AA ApexAgentsClaude Opus 4.7 by 32.133.91.8+32.1
- τ-Bench V3 · BankingClaude Opus 4.7 by 24.334.610.3+24.3
ReasoningClaude Opus 4.7
- Humanity's Last ExamClaude Opus 4.7 by 21.542.320.8+21.5
- GPQA DiamondClaude Opus 4.7 by 11.491.480+11.4
- CritPtClaude Opus 4.7 by 8.9123.1+8.9
FactsClaude Opus 4.7
- AA-Omniscience · Non-hallucinationClaude Opus 4.7 by 44.757.713+44.7
- AA-Omniscience · AccuracyClaude Opus 4.7 by 24.648.924.3+24.6
MathClaude Opus 4.7
- HMMT Feb. 2026Claude Opus 4.7 by 993.984.8+9
- AIME 2026Claude Opus 4.7 by 4.195.891.7+4.1
Following instructionsNemotron 3 Super 120B A12B
- IFBenchNemotron 3 Super 120B A12B by 12.958.671.5+12.9
Other results6 tests, not counted
Tests outside the eight areas. They are not counted above: several are summary scores built from other tests, or the same test under another name.
- AA-OmniscienceClaude Opus 4.7 by 68.827.3-41.5+68.8
- Terminal-Bench 2.0Claude Opus 4.7 by 38.469.431+38.4
- Artificial Analysis Coding IndexClaude Opus 4.7 by 35.973.637.7+35.9
- AA Agentic IndexClaude Opus 4.7 by 35.439.54.1+35.4
- AA IntelligenceClaude Opus 4.7 by 27.940.712.8+27.9
- τ²-Bench Telecom (AA run)Claude Opus 4.7 by 20.888.667.8+20.8
Questions people ask
Which is better, Claude Opus 4.7 or Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B?
Claude Opus 4.7 wins six of the seven areas where both have results: coding, agents, reasoning, facts, math and long documents. Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B wins following instructions, and costs 96% less.
Which is better for coding?
Claude Opus 4.7. It wins 5 of the 5 coding tests both models report; Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B wins none.
Which is cheaper?
Claude Opus 4.7 costs $5.00 per million input tokens and $25.00 per million output tokens; Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B costs $0.30 and $0.90. That makes Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B about 96% cheaper for the same work.
How do you compare the two?
We use the 24 benchmark tests both models have published scores on. The verdict counts the 18 tests in the eight capability areas, and a gap under one point (ten on rating-style scales) counts as a tie. The other 6 are listed but not counted, because several are summary scores or repeat a test. Each score is the one shown on the model's own page.