Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B: pricing, context and performance

Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B at a glance

Released on October 15, 2026, Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B is one of the 6 NVIDIA models tracked on this site. It is an open-weight model: you can host it yourself on infrastructure you control, and 13 API providers listed on models.dev also offer it. It has a reasoning mode: it can "think" before answering, which helps with multi-step problems but uses more tokens, and therefore more money. It is a very recent release.

We file it under open-weight models (68 models in this category on the site).

Benchmark results

As of October 22, 2026, Epoch AI publishes no score for Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B on our basket's benchmarks. To place it, rely on its specifications and price, then test it on your own cases.

Pricing and budget

Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B costs $0.15 per million input tokens and $0.50 per million output tokens (median of 13 providers, checked on October 22, 2026).

In practice, an agent task that reads 20,000 tokens and writes 2,000 costs about $0.004, or $4 for 1,000 such tasks.

That is 2 times cheaper than the median output price of open-weight models ($1).

To estimate your own budget, use the agent cost calculator.

What it can do

Its context window reaches 1,048,576 tokens, roughly 1,573 pages of text at 500 words per page: enough to load a whole book or a mid-sized codebase. A single answer can run to 8,192 tokens.

It accepts as input: text, image and video.

It can call tools (functions, APIs), which makes it a possible foundation for an AI agent.

When to choose it

Given its category, Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B is mainly aimed at projects where you want control over your data or hosting, or want to adapt the model to your field.

Its very large context window makes it worth considering for analysing large sets of documents in a single request.

Its very low cost (under half a cent for our sample task) means it can be called thousands of times a day.

Before adopting it, test it on your own examples: benchmarks measure standard tasks, not your job.

What could replace it?

In the same category, the models closest to Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B are:

• Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B (NVIDIA, $0.52 per million output tokens)
• Hy3 (Tencent (Hunyuan), $0.53 per million output tokens)
• DeepSeek V3.2 (DeepSeek, index 59.8)
• DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 (DeepSeek, index 90.6)