Llama 4 Maverick vs Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B (Reasoning)

Which is better for the money: Llama 4 Maverick by Meta 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

MetaLlama 4 MaverickOff the frontier

Intelligence: 9.30
Total cost: $44.0

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 3.5 points higher (12.8 vs 9.3) but costs 30× as much to run the benchmark ($1319 vs $44.0; premium vs budget cost classes). They are not alternatives at one budget: pick Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B (Reasoning) when you need intelligence above 9.3, and Llama 4 Maverick when 9.3 is enough.

Metric	Llama 4 Maverick	Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B (Reasoning)	Difference
Intelligence (higher is better)	9.3	12.8	+37.6% Nemotron 3 Super 120B… is 37.6% more intelligent
Total AA cost (lower is better)	$43.98	$1,318.62	+2898.2% Nemotron 3 Super 120B… is 30× more expensive
End-to-end time (lower is better)	10.69s	16.68s	+56.0% Nemotron 3 Super 120B… is 56.0% slower
Price per 1M tokens (in / out)	$0.25 / $0.92	$0.30 / $0.90
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Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B (Reasoning) vs Llama 4 Maverick: 37.6% more intelligence, 2898.2% more cost to run the AA benchmark, and 56.0% slower end-to-end.

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Today's Pareto frontier

Against the frontier

Llama 4 Maverick is off the frontier: at the same or lower cost, GPT-6 Luna (Medium) scores 29.90 for $31.2.
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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