gpt-oss-120b (High) vs Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B (Reasoning)

Which is better for the money: gpt-oss-120b (High) by OpenAI or Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B (Reasoning) by NVIDIA? Intelligence, total benchmark cost, and end-to-end time from Artificial Analysis & other sources, snapshot 2026-10-27.

Trade-off

OpenAIgpt-oss-120b (High)Off the frontier

Intelligence: 11.60
Total cost: $123

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 1.2 points higher (12.8 vs 11.6) but costs 11× as much to run the benchmark ($1319 vs $123; premium vs mid-range cost classes). They are not alternatives at one budget: pick Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B (Reasoning) when you need intelligence above 11.6, and gpt-oss-120b (High) when 11.6 is enough.

Metric	gpt-oss-120b (High)	Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B (Reasoning)	Difference
Intelligence (higher is better)	11.6	12.8	+10.3% Nemotron 3 Super 120B… is 10.3% more intelligent
Total AA cost (lower is better)	$122.71	$1,318.62	+974.6% Nemotron 3 Super 120B… is 11× more expensive
End-to-end time (lower is better)	11.32s	16.82s	+48.6% Nemotron 3 Super 120B… is 48.6% slower
Price per 1M tokens (in / out)	$0.15 / $0.60	$0.30 / $0.90
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Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B (Reasoning) vs gpt-oss-120b (High): 10.3% more intelligence, 974.6% more cost to run the AA benchmark, and 48.6% slower end-to-end.

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Today's Pareto frontier

Against the frontier

gpt-oss-120b (High) is off the frontier: at the same or lower cost, GPT-6 Luna (Max) scores 38.10 for $122.
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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