Gemini 3.5 Flash (High) vs Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B (Reasoning)

Which is better for the money: Gemini 3.5 Flash (High) by Google or Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B (Reasoning) by NVIDIA? Intelligence, total benchmark cost, and end-to-end time from Artificial Analysis & other sources, snapshot 2026-10-26.

Trade-off

GoogleGemini 3.5 Flash (High)Off the frontier

Intelligence: 32.60
Total cost: $4222

NVIDIANemotron 3 Super 120B A12B (Reasoning)Off the frontier

Intelligence: 12.80
Total cost: $1319

Verdict

Depends on your budget

Gemini 3.5 Flash (High) scores 19.8 points higher (32.6 vs 12.8) but costs 3.2× as much to run the benchmark ($4222 vs $1319; flagship vs premium cost classes). They are not alternatives at one budget: pick Gemini 3.5 Flash (High) when you need intelligence above 12.8, and Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B (Reasoning) when 12.8 is enough.

Metric	Gemini 3.5 Flash (High)	Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B (Reasoning)	Difference
Intelligence (higher is better)	32.6	12.8	−60.7% Nemotron 3 Super 120B… is 60.7% less intelligent
Total AA cost (lower is better)	$4,222.12	$1,318.62	−68.8% Nemotron 3 Super 120B… is 68.8% cheaper
End-to-end time (lower is better)	17.12s	16.18s	−5.5% Nemotron 3 Super 120B… is 5.5% faster
Price per 1M tokens (in / out)	$1.50 / $9.00	$0.30 / $0.90
Input modalities	Text, Image, Speech, Video	Text

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B (Reasoning) vs Gemini 3.5 Flash (High): 60.7% less intelligence, 68.8% less cost to run the AA benchmark, and 5.5% faster end-to-end.

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Today's Pareto frontier

Against the frontier

Gemini 3.5 Flash (High) is off the frontier: at the same or lower cost, Claude Opus 5.5 (Xhigh, Default Fallback) scores 56.00 for $4057.
Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B (Reasoning) is off the frontier: at the same or lower cost, GPT-6.1 Sol (Max) scores 51.80 for $1082.

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