Compare/NVIDIA Nemotron Nano 12B v2 VL (Reasoning) vs gpt-oss-120B (high)

NVIDIA Nemotron Nano 12B v2 VL (Reasoning)vsgpt-oss-120B (high)

Side-by-side comparison of pricing, 12 benchmarks, and generation speed.

NVIDIA

NVIDIA Nemotron Nano 12B v2 VL (Reasoning)

Input
$0.2/M
Output
$0.6/M
Speed
132 tok/s
TTFT
0.23s
OpenAI

gpt-oss-120B (high)

Input
$0.15/M
Output
$0.6/M
Speed
253 tok/s
TTFT
0.49s

Winner by Category

Cheaper
gpt-oss-120B (high)
Faster (tok/s)
gpt-oss-120B (high)
Lower Latency
NVIDIA Nemotron Nano 12B v2 VL (Reasoning)
Benchmarks (0-11)
gpt-oss-120B (high)

Pricing Comparison

MetricNVIDIA Nemotron Nano 12B v2 VL (Reasoning)gpt-oss-120B (high)
Input ($/M tokens)$0.2$0.15
Output ($/M tokens)$0.6$0.6
Cost for 1M input + 100K output tokens:
NVIDIA Nemotron Nano 12B v2 VL (Reasoning)$0.26
gpt-oss-120B (high)$0.21

Speed Comparison

Output Speed (tokens/s) — higher is better
NVIDIA Nemotron Nano 12B v2 VL (Reasoning)
132 tok/s
gpt-oss-120B (high)
253 tok/s
Time to First Token (seconds) — lower is better
NVIDIA Nemotron Nano 12B v2 VL (Reasoning)
0.23s
gpt-oss-120B (high)
0.49s

Benchmark Comparison

Data from Artificial Analysis API — 12 benchmarks

Intelligence Index
14.933.3
Coding Index
11.828.6
Math Index
75.093.4
GPQA Diamond
57.2%78.2%
MMLU-Pro
75.9%80.8%
LiveCodeBench
69.4%87.8%
AIME 2025
75.0%93.4%
MATH-500
Humanity's Last Exam
5.3%18.5%
SciCode
26.2%38.9%
IFBench
31.9%69.0%
TerminalBench
4.5%23.5%
NVIDIA Nemotron Nano 12B v2 VL (Reasoning)0 wins
11 winsgpt-oss-120B (high)

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is cheaper, NVIDIA Nemotron Nano 12B v2 VL (Reasoning) or gpt-oss-120B (high)?

gpt-oss-120B (high) is cheaper overall. Its blended price (3:1 input/output ratio) is $0.26/M tokens vs $0.30/M for NVIDIA Nemotron Nano 12B v2 VL (Reasoning).

Which model performs better on benchmarks?

gpt-oss-120B (high) wins 11 out of 12 benchmarks compared to 0 for NVIDIA Nemotron Nano 12B v2 VL (Reasoning). See the detailed benchmark chart above for per-category results.

Which is faster for real-time applications?

gpt-oss-120B (high) generates tokens faster at 253 tok/s vs 132 tok/s. NVIDIA Nemotron Nano 12B v2 VL (Reasoning) also has lower time-to-first-token (0.23s vs 0.49s).

When should I use NVIDIA Nemotron Nano 12B v2 VL (Reasoning) vs gpt-oss-120B (high)?

Choose based on your priorities: gpt-oss-120B (high) for lower cost, gpt-oss-120B (high) for stronger benchmark performance, and gpt-oss-120B (high) for faster generation. For latency-sensitive apps, check the TTFT comparison above.