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Gemma 4 26B A4B vs Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

Google · released

Wins 1 of 7 areas

Agents

NVIDIA · released

Wins 4 of 7 areas

Coding · Reasoning · Facts · Math

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B wins more areas, narrowly.Gemma 4 26B A4B is cheaper and better at agents.

Scores updated · 37 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.

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.

Gemma 4 26B A4B$0.13 to read · $0.40 to write$0.53Price from Artificial Analysis
Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B$0.30 to read · $0.90 to write$1.20Price from Artificial Analysis

Gemma 4 26B A4B costs 56% 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 Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B pulls ahead

  • Fixes real GitHub issues in Python projectsSWE-bench Verified+36.3points aheadNemotron 3 Super 120B A12B53.7Gemma 4 26B A4B17.4
  • Fixes real GitHub issues in many programming languagesSWE-bench Multilingual+28.5points aheadNemotron 3 Super 120B A12B45.8Gemma 4 26B A4B17.3
  • Hard command-line tasks in a real terminalTerminal-Bench Hard+15.2points aheadNemotron 3 Super 120B A12B28.8Gemma 4 26B A4B13.6

Where Gemma 4 26B A4B pulls ahead

  • Code for real scientific research problemsSciCode+3.8points aheadGemma 4 26B A4B40Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B36.2
  • Customer-service tasks in a simulated bankτ-Bench V3 · Banking+1.7points aheadGemma 4 26B A4B12Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B10.3

Every test, side by side

All 37 tests both models report. The winning score is in its model's colour; marks a score checked independently.

CodingNemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

Full coding ranking

AgentsGemma 4 26B A4B

Full agents ranking

ReasoningNemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

Full reasoning ranking

FactsNemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

Full facts ranking

MathNemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

Full math ranking

Long documentsEven

Full long documents ranking

Following instructionsEven

Full following instructions ranking

Other results20 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.

Questions people ask

Which is better, Gemma 4 26B A4B or Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B?

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B wins four of the seven areas where both have results: coding, reasoning, facts and math. Gemma 4 26B A4B wins agents, and costs 56% less. They are level on long documents and following instructions.

Which is better for coding?

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B. It wins 3 of the 5 coding tests both models report; Gemma 4 26B A4B wins 1, and 1 is a tie.

Which is cheaper?

Gemma 4 26B A4B costs $0.13 per million input tokens and $0.40 per million output tokens; Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B costs $0.30 and $0.90. That makes Gemma 4 26B A4B about 56% cheaper for the same work.

How do you compare the two?

We use the 37 benchmark tests both models have published scores on. The verdict counts the 17 tests in the eight capability areas, and a gap under one point (ten on rating-style scales) counts as a tie. The other 20 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.

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