Gemma 4 E4B (Reasoning) vs Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B (Reasoning)

Which is better for the money: Gemma 4 E4B (Reasoning) 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

GoogleGemma 4 E4B (Reasoning)On the open-weights frontier

Intelligence: 8.90
Total cost: $14.7

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

Intelligence: 12.80
Total cost: $1319

Verdict

Depends on your budget

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B (Reasoning) scores 3.9 points higher (12.8 vs 8.9) but costs 90× as much to run the benchmark ($1319 vs $14.7; premium vs budget cost classes). They are not alternatives at one budget: pick Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B (Reasoning) when you need intelligence above 8.9, and Gemma 4 E4B (Reasoning) when 8.9 is enough.

Metric	Gemma 4 E4B (Reasoning)	Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B (Reasoning)	Difference
Intelligence (higher is better)	8.9	12.8	+43.8% Nemotron 3 Super 120B… is 43.8% more intelligent
Total AA cost (lower is better)	$14.68	$1,318.62	+8882.4% Nemotron 3 Super 120B… is 90× more expensive
End-to-end time (lower is better)	55.62s	15.90s	−71.4% Nemotron 3 Super 120B… is 71.4% faster
Price per 1M tokens (in / out)	$0.02 / $0.10	$0.30 / $0.90
Input modalities	Text, Image, Speech, Video	Text

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B (Reasoning) vs Gemma 4 E4B (Reasoning): 43.8% more intelligence, 8882.4% more cost to run the AA benchmark, and 71.4% faster end-to-end.

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Today's Pareto frontier

Against the frontier

Gemma 4 E4B (Reasoning) is off the frontier: at the same or lower cost, GPT-6 Luna (Low) scores 21.50 for $10.6.
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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