What are Nemotron Nano 12B v2 VL's benchmark scores?

As of 25 Oct 2026, Nemotron Nano 12B v2 VL (thinking effort) scores 41.5 ±2.8 on the BenchLeader Index, strongest in long context (45) and weakest in knowledge (33). That rests on 7 independent benchmark results, and every score on this page links to its publisher.

How does Nemotron Nano 12B v2 VL rank?

Nemotron Nano 12B v2 VL (thinking effort) is #628 of 785 ranked configurations on 25 Oct 2026. 278 other configurations score within its margin, so the exact position matters less than the band. The leader is Claude Opus 5.5 (max effort) at 72.6.

When was Nemotron Nano 12B v2 VL released?

NVIDIA released Nemotron Nano 12B v2 VL on 28 Oct 2025. BenchLeader has results for it at 3 reasoning-effort settings.

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Nemotron Nano 12B v2 VL

Reasoning effort

Nemotron Nano 12B v2 VL is a NVIDIA open-weights model, released 28 Oct 2025. Its best configuration (thinking reasoning effort) ranks #628 of 785 on the BenchLeader Index at 41.5 ±2.8, in the lower half. The ± is the point: 278 other configurations score within that range, so they and this one cannot be told apart on quality alone — price and speed are what separate them. It scores highest in long context (45) and lowest in knowledge (33). It has been measured at 3 reasoning-effort settings; this summary describes the best-scoring one, and the tabs above switch between them. Last measured 28 Oct 2025.stale: no new result in six months

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Released: 28 Oct 2025

How it scores by categoryDashed line = average model (50). One step of 15 = one standard deviation.

Overall index42
Reasoning41
Agents & tools38
Knowledge33
Instruction following36
Multimodal35
Long context45
Composite38

Reasoning-effort configurations

The same model behaves differently depending on how much it is allowed to think. Each row is one setting, scored only on the benchmarks that were run at that setting. “Not stated” collects results from publishers that did not say which setting they used; for a reasoning model that is usually its thinking mode, but we do not assume it. Pick a setting here or at the top of the page to see its price, speed and category scores.

Effort	Index	Rank	Speed	First answer	Chat reply cost	Categories
no reasoning	38.1	#719	202 tok/s	1.12 s	$0.0003	Agents & tools 34 · Composite 36 · Instruction following 30 · Knowledge 29 · Long context 34 · Multimodal 27 · Reasoning 41
thinkingbest	41.5	#628	–	–	–	Agents & tools 38 · Composite 38 · Instruction following 36 · Knowledge 33 · Long context 45 · Multimodal 35 · Reasoning 41
not stated	–	–	–	–	–	Reasoning 48

How its index has moved

9 Sept 2026 to 21 Oct 2026

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The index is recomputed from scratch every day, so a line moves when a new benchmark result lands, when a publisher revises a score, or when the models it is normalised against change. Early movement usually means the score is still settling.

Benchmark results

See all LLM benchmarks. One column per reasoning effort. Rank is among every configuration of every model on that benchmark. Hover a score for the run it came from.

Reasoning

Benchmark	no reasoning	thinking	not stated	Source
GPQA Diamond (AA)not in index	43.9%#454	57.2%#394	–	Artificial Analysis
Humanity's Last Exam (AA)not in index	4.3%#515	5.5%#422	–	Artificial Analysis
Kagi LLM Benchmarkeffort not stated	–	–	51.7%#80	Kagi LLM Benchmark
CritPt	0.0%#315	0.0%#315	–	Artificial Analysis

Agents & tools

Benchmark	no reasoning	thinking	Source
Terminal-Bench Hard	0.0%#362	4.5%#284	Artificial Analysis
τ²-Bench Telecom (AA)not in index	19.3%#342	21.4%#323	Artificial Analysis

Knowledge

Benchmark	no reasoning	thinking	Source
AA-Omniscience	-72.2#522	-64.2#494	Artificial Analysis
AA-Omniscience: accuracynot in index	11.9%#476	14.6%#433	Artificial Analysis
AA-Omniscience: non-hallucinationnot in index	4.5%#530	7.7%#478	Artificial Analysis

Instruction following

Benchmark	no reasoning	thinking	Source
IFBench	25.9%#390	31.9%#346	Artificial Analysis

Multimodal

Benchmark	no reasoning	thinking	Source
MMMU-Pro	44.5%#256	52.9%#235	Artificial Analysis

Long context

Benchmark	no reasoning	thinking	Source
AA-LCR	20.7%#431	41.0%#356	Artificial Analysis

Composite

Benchmark	no reasoning	thinking	Source
AA Intelligence Index v4.3.2	5.8#556	7.5#473	Artificial Analysis

Price history

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Questions people ask

What are Nemotron Nano 12B v2 VL's benchmark scores?: As of 25 Oct 2026, Nemotron Nano 12B v2 VL (thinking effort) scores 41.5 ±2.8 on the BenchLeader Index, strongest in long context (45) and weakest in knowledge (33). That rests on 7 independent benchmark results, and every score on this page links to its publisher.
How does Nemotron Nano 12B v2 VL rank?: Nemotron Nano 12B v2 VL (thinking effort) is #628 of 785 ranked configurations on 25 Oct 2026. 278 other configurations score within its margin, so the exact position matters less than the band. The leader is Claude Opus 5.5 (max effort) at 72.6.
When was Nemotron Nano 12B v2 VL released?: NVIDIA released Nemotron Nano 12B v2 VL on 28 Oct 2025. BenchLeader has results for it at 3 reasoning-effort settings.

Data as of 25 Oct 2026. Compare these configurations.

Cite as: BenchLeader, “Nemotron Nano 12B v2 VL: benchmarks, pricing, speed and rank”, data as of 25 Oct 2026, https://www.benchleader.com/models/nemotron-nano-12b-v2-vl.