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Released October 28, 2025

Nemotron Nano 12B 2 VL

NVIDIA Nemotron Nano 12B 2 VL is a vision-language model for multimodal document intelligence, multi-image reasoning, video understanding, visual Q&A.

Inputs
Image
Text
Video
Outputs
Text

Model Overview

Capabilities, design details, and architectural traits

Nemotron Nano 12B 2 VL - Vision-language document model

Nemotron Nano 12B 2 VL is built for multimodal document intelligence. It is set up for image, video, and text inputs, with reasoning controlled by the system prompt for text and images.

Distinct traitDocumented behavior
Multi-image reasoningSupports reasoning over multiple images, including up to five input images.
Video understandingHandles video inputs for tasks such as video understanding and video Q&A.
Prompt-controlled reasoningUses /think to enable reasoning and /no_think to disable it for text and images.
Document intelligence focusDescribed for document tasks such as invoices, receipts, manuals, visual Q&A, and summarization.

Input pattern

The model accepts image, video, and text inputs, and its documented use centers on multimodal document workflows. It also supports a 128K input plus output token context window.

Output behavior

The model returns text output and is presented as a commercial-use model. Its documented operation emphasizes document analysis and visual question answering rather than general chat.

Benchmark Performance

Independent evaluations · Artificial Analysis

7.5%
Intelligence

Accuracy & Capability Details

GPQA - Graduate Science57.2%
Humanity's Last Exam5.5%
SciCode - Scientific Coding26.2%
Instruction Following31.9%
Long Context Reasoning41.0%
τ²-Bench - Agentic Tasks21.3%
TerminalBench - System Control4.5%

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Model Details
General Info
ProviderNVIDIAAnthropicAnthropic
Release DateOctober 28, 2025September 22, 2026September 28, 2026
Knowledge Cutoff--Jun 2026
Context & Limits
Context Window128K
1M
Best Context Window
1M
Best Context Window
Pricing (per 1M tokens)
Input Pricing
$0.20
Best Input Pricing
$4$2
Output Pricing
$0.60
Best Output Pricing
$20$10
Modalities
Inputs
imagetextvideo
textimagefile
textimagefile
Outputs
text
text
text
Benchmarks (0-100)
Intelligence Index5.8
57.6
Best Intelligence Index
56.0
Coding Index---
Agentic Index---
Nemotron Nano 12B 2 VL
Claude Opus 5.5
Claude Sonnet 5.5

Humanity's Last Exam

Extremely difficult logical reasoning and knowledge.

4%
Nemotron Nano 12B 2 VL
Humanity's Last Exam
Score: 4%
Nemotron Nano 12B 2 VL
61%
Claude Opus 5.5
Humanity's Last Exam
Score: 61%
Claude Opus 5.5
55%
Claude Sonnet 5.5
Humanity's Last Exam
Score: 55%
Claude Sonnet 5.5

Long Context Reasoning

Logical reasoning over long context windows.

21%
Nemotron Nano 12B 2 VL
Long Context Reasoning
Score: 21%
Nemotron Nano 12B 2 VL
85%
Claude Opus 5.5
Long Context Reasoning
Score: 85%
Claude Opus 5.5
83%
Claude Sonnet 5.5
Long Context Reasoning
Score: 83%
Claude Sonnet 5.5

SciCode Benchmark

Scientific coding and mathematical modeling.

18%
Nemotron Nano 12B 2 VL
SciCode Benchmark
Score: 18%
Nemotron Nano 12B 2 VL
67%
Claude Opus 5.5
SciCode Benchmark
Score: 67%
Claude Opus 5.5
61%
Claude Sonnet 5.5
SciCode Benchmark
Score: 61%
Claude Sonnet 5.5

Independent evaluation data provided by Artificial Analysis. To view the latest benchmarks and full details, visit their official site.

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