Muse Wonder (Max) vs Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B (Reasoning)

Which is better for the money: Muse Wonder (Max) 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

MetaMuse Wonder (Max)Off the frontier

Intelligence: 52.40
Total cost: $9244

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

Intelligence: 12.80
Total cost: $1319

Verdict

Depends on your budget

Muse Wonder (Max) scores 39.6 points higher (52.4 vs 12.8) but costs 7.0× as much to run the benchmark ($9244 vs $1319; flagship vs premium cost classes). They are not alternatives at one budget: pick Muse Wonder (Max) when you need intelligence above 12.8, and Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B (Reasoning) when 12.8 is enough.

Metric	Muse Wonder (Max)	Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B (Reasoning)	Difference
Intelligence (higher is better)	52.4	12.8	−75.6% Nemotron 3 Super 120B… is 75.6% less intelligent
Total AA cost (lower is better)	$9,243.80	$1,318.62	−85.7% Nemotron 3 Super 120B… is 85.7% cheaper
End-to-end time (lower is better)	46.92s	16.68s	−64.5% Nemotron 3 Super 120B… is 64.5% faster
Price per 1M tokens (in / out)	$4.00 / $20.0	$0.30 / $0.90
Input modalities	Text, Image, Speech, Video	Text

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B (Reasoning) vs Muse Wonder (Max): 75.6% less intelligence, 85.7% less cost to run the AA benchmark, and 64.5% faster end-to-end.

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Today's Pareto frontier

Against the frontier

Muse Wonder (Max) is off the frontier: at the same or lower cost, Claude Opus 5.5 (Max, Default Fallback) scores 57.60 for $8708.
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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