BenchLeader

GPT-5.6 Sol vs Nemotron 3 Ultra

Verdict
  • GPT-5.6 Sol (high) leads on quality: 68.2 vs 58.3.
  • GPT-5.6 Sol (high) is stronger in agents & tools, coding, composite, knowledge, long context, multimodal, reasoning.
  • Nemotron 3 Ultra is stronger in instruction following.
  • Nemotron 3 Ultra is 8.0× cheaper ($1.00 vs $8.00 per 1M blended).
  • Nemotron 3 Ultra streams 2.7× faster (156 vs 59 tokens per second).
MetricGPT-5.6 Sol (high)Nemotron 3 Ultra
BenchLeader Index68.258.3
Agents & tools score87.952.6
Coding score72.462.3
Composite score82.743.7
Instruction following score67.878.3
Knowledge score73.859.5
Long context score67.466.2
Multimodal score66.4
Reasoning score63.3
Blended price $/M$8.00$1.00
Output speed59 tok/s156 tok/s
Time to first answer31.0 s16.8 s
Context window1M1M
SciCode56.9%
WeirdML88.8%
LiveBench67.4%
LiveBench Reasoning74.7%
LiveBench Coding70.7%
LiveBench Agentic Coding38.7%
LiveBench Mathematics88.7%
LiveBench Data Analysis54.5%
LiveBench Language70.8%
AA Intelligence Index42.523.4
IFBench69.2%81.4%
AA-LCR81.7%79.3%
MMMU-Pro81.8%
AA-Omniscience20.4-0.4
Terminal-Bench Hard62.1%36.4%
GPQA Diamond (AA)92.8%86.7%
Humanity's Last Exam (AA)46.0%28.4%
SciCode (AA)57.8%40.3%
τ²-Bench Telecom (AA)83.3%83.3%
LiveCodeBench86.0%
MMLU-Pro85.8%
LegalBench82.1%
CorpFin65.5%
TaxEval73.1%
Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals)50.9%
SWE-bench (Vals)69.0%
GPQA Diamond (Vals)86.1%
Vals Index27.4
EnigmaEval37.1%
ARC-AGI-197.0%
ARC-AGI-285.4%
ARC-AGI-32.2%

Data as of 2026-09-10. Best configuration of each model; every score links to its source on the model pages.

GPT-5.6 Sol vs Nemotron 3 Ultra: questions

Is GPT-5.6 Sol better than Nemotron 3 Ultra?
GPT-5.6 Sol (high) leads on quality: 68.2 vs 58.3. The BenchLeader Index combines every independent quality benchmark; GPT-5.6 Sol (high) is ahead overall as of 2026-09-10, but check the category scores for your use.
Is GPT-5.6 Sol better than Nemotron 3 Ultra for coding?
GPT-5.6 Sol scores higher in coding (72 vs 62 on the category index, where 50 is average).
Is GPT-5.6 Sol better than Nemotron 3 Ultra for agentic tasks?
GPT-5.6 Sol scores higher in agentic tasks (88 vs 53 on the category index, where 50 is average).
Which is cheaper, GPT-5.6 Sol or Nemotron 3 Ultra?
Nemotron 3 Ultra is cheaper: $1.00 against $8.00 per million tokens, blended at three input tokens per output token.
Which is faster, GPT-5.6 Sol or Nemotron 3 Ultra?
Nemotron 3 Ultra streams faster: 156 against 59 output tokens per second.
Which has the larger context window?
Both accept 1M tokens of context.