Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B vs Qwen3.6 27B
Wins 1 of 7 areas
Following instructions
Wins 5 of 7 areas
Coding · Agents · Reasoning · Math · Long documents
Qwen3.6 27B is the stronger all-rounder.Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B is cheaper and better at following instructions.
Scores updated · 25 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 software05Qwen3.6 27B5 of 5 tests
- AgentsCarrying out multi-step tasks on its own02Qwen3.6 27B2 of 3 tests · 1 tie
- ReasoningHard problems that need careful thinking12Qwen3.6 27B2 of 3 tests
- MathCompetition and research-level math01Qwen3.6 27B1 of 2 tests · 1 tie
- Long documentsFinding answers in very long texts01Qwen3.6 27B1 of 1 test
- Following instructionsDoing exactly what it is asked10Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B1 of 1 test
- FactsGetting facts right instead of making them up11Even1 each
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 71% less for the same work.
The biggest differences
The three tests each model wins by the widest margin. Scores are out of 100.
Where Qwen3.6 27B pulls ahead
- Avoids making up answers it doesn't knowAA-Omniscience · Non-hallucination+37.7points ahead
- Fixes real GitHub issues in many programming languagesSWE-bench Multilingual+25.5points ahead
- Fixes real GitHub issues in Python projectsSWE-bench Verified+23.5points ahead
Where Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B pulls ahead
- Answers hard knowledge questions correctlyAA-Omniscience · Accuracy+4.7points ahead
- Follows unfamiliar, precisely checkable instructionsIFBench+3.9points ahead
- Research-level physics problemsCritPt+2points ahead
Every test, side by side
All 25 tests both models report. The winning score is in its model's colour; marks a score checked independently.
CodingQwen3.6 27B
- SWE-bench MultilingualQwen3.6 27B by 25.545.871.3+25.5
- SWE-bench VerifiedQwen3.6 27B by 23.553.777.2+23.5
- Terminal-Bench 2.1Qwen3.6 27B by 22.138.660.7+22.1
- SciCodeQwen3.6 27B by 6.636.242.8+6.6
- Terminal-Bench HardQwen3.6 27B by 628.834.8+6
AgentsQwen3.6 27B
- GDPValQwen3.6 27B by 24.3024.3+24.3
- τ-Bench V3 · BankingQwen3.6 27B by 6.410.316.7+6.4
- Terminal-Bench 4.0tie00tie
ReasoningQwen3.6 27B
- GPQA DiamondQwen3.6 27B by 4.28084.2+4.2
- Humanity's Last ExamQwen3.6 27B by 2.320.823.1+2.3
- CritPtNemotron 3 Super 120B A12B by 23.11.1+2
FactsEven
- AA-Omniscience · Non-hallucinationQwen3.6 27B by 37.71350.7+37.7
- AA-Omniscience · AccuracyNemotron 3 Super 120B A12B by 4.724.319.6+4.7
Following instructionsNemotron 3 Super 120B A12B
- IFBenchNemotron 3 Super 120B A12B by 3.971.567.6+3.9
Other results8 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.
- Terminal-Bench 2.0Qwen3.6 27B by 28.33159.3+28.3
- τ²-Bench Telecom (AA run)Qwen3.6 27B by 26.467.894.2+26.4
- AA-OmniscienceQwen3.6 27B by 21.5-41.5-20+21.5
- AA Agentic IndexQwen3.6 27B by 164.120.1+16
- Artificial Analysis Coding IndexQwen3.6 27B by 1637.753.7+16
- AA IntelligenceQwen3.6 27B by 8.612.821.4+8.6
- HMMT 2025Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B by 494.790.7+4
- MMLU-ProQwen3.6 27B by 2.583.786.2+2.5
Questions people ask
Which is better, Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B or Qwen3.6 27B?
Qwen3.6 27B wins five of the seven areas where both have results: coding, agents, reasoning, math and long documents. Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B wins following instructions, and costs 71% less. They are level on facts.
Which is better for coding?
Qwen3.6 27B. It wins 5 of the 5 coding tests both models report; Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B wins none.
Which is cheaper?
Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B costs $0.30 per million input tokens and $0.90 per million output tokens; Qwen3.6 27B costs $0.60 and $3.60. That makes Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B about 71% cheaper for the same work.
How do you compare the two?
We use the 25 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 8 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.