Nemotron Nano 12B v2 VL vs Claude Opus 5.5
Benchmarks, API Token Pricing, Context Window & Speed Comparison
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Compare Nemotron Nano 12B v2 VL by NVIDIA against Claude Opus 5.5 by Anthropic across real-world coding, reasoning, token economics, and latency.
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Nemotron Nano 12B v2 VL
Нативная мультимодальная ИИNemotron Nano 12B v2 VL от NVIDIA — специализированная ИИ-модель для нативной мультимодальной обработки текста и изображений, а также анализа документов, обеспечивающая контекстное окно 128K, скорость 110 ток/с и индекс интеллекта 43/100 (п
$0.12 / 1M
$0.30 / 1M
128K tokens
31%
Claude Opus 5.5
Флагманская передовая модельClaude Opus 5.5 от Anthropic — специализированная ИИ-модель для передового корпоративного рассуждения, программирования и промышленных ИИ-систем, обеспечивающая контекстное окно 1M, скорость 78 ток/с и индекс интеллекта 94/100 (по цене $4/$
$4.00 / 1M
$20.00 / 1M
1M tokens
84.6%
Ключевые отличия кратко
- Nemotron Nano 12B v2 VL is 49.7x cheaper for API usage (input + output tokens combined).
- Claude Opus 5.5 has a larger context window (1M vs 128K tokens).
- Nemotron Nano 12B v2 VL is faster at 110 tok/s vs 78 tok/s.
- Claude Opus 5.5 leads on SWE-bench coding (84.6% vs 31.0%).
| Feature | Nemotron Nano 12B v2 VL | Claude Opus 5.5 |
|---|---|---|
Intelligence Index Composite reasoning & knowledge score (0-100) | 43 | 94 |
Provider | NVIDIA | Anthropic |
Input Price Cost per million input tokens | $0.12 / 1M | $4.00 / 1M |
Output Price Cost per million output tokens | $0.30 / 1M | $20.00 / 1M |
Blended Price Weighted 7:2:1 cache:input:output per 1M | $0.07 / 1M | $3.08 / 1M |
Context Window Maximum input + output tokens | 128K tokens~192 A4 pages of text | 1M tokens~1,500 A4 pages of text |
Max Output Tokens Per single request | 8K | 128K |
Throughput Speed Tokens generated per second | 110 tok/s | 78 tok/s |
SWE-bench Verified Real-world software engineering | 31% | 84.6% |
GPQA Diamond Graduate-level reasoning | 47% | 82.3% |
Cached Input Price Prompt caching discount per 1M tokens | $0.03 / 1M | $0.40 / 1M |
Кто лидирует в каждой категории?
At-a-glance decision frameworkРезультаты проверенных бенчмарков
Official evaluation metrics verified by independent third-party research labs.
Industry benchmark evaluating real-world GitHub issue resolution and multi-file debugging.
Challenging questions created by domain experts to test complex PhD-level reasoning.
Hardened reasoning and academic knowledge benchmark with reduced lucky-guess probability.
Crowdsourced human preference evaluation based on blind, head-to-head model battles.
Extremely difficult, closed-ended questions spanning the frontier of human expert knowledge.
Autonomous multi-step tasks executed inside a real command-line terminal environment.
Research-grade coding problems drawn from real scientific and numerical workloads.
Contamination-free competitive programming problems collected continuously over time.
American Invitational Mathematics Examination — multi-step Olympiad-level reasoning.
Accuracy when reasoning over very large inputs that fill the model context window.
Tokens emitted per second during active generation streaming.
Задержка и скорость ответа
Time to first token (TTFT) and estimated end-to-end response time for a typical 500-token response.
Интерактивный калькулятор стоимости токенов
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Nemotron Nano 12B v2 VL · Strengths & Key Advantages
- Контекстное окно 128K и генерация до 8K выходных токенов за ответ (SWE-bench Verified 31% · GPQA Diamond 47%)
- Высокая скорость генерации 110 токенов/сек при задержке до первого токена (TTFT) всего 350 мс
- Открытые веса модели (12B) для локального хостинга и дообучения через vLLM, SGLang или Ollama
Considerations & Trade-offs
- Для локального запуска в полной точности требуются GPU-серверы с достаточным объемом видеопамяти (VRAM)
- В сверхсложных научных доказательствах специализированные тяжелые модели рассуждения могут показывать большую глубину
Claude Opus 5.5 · Strengths & Key Advantages
- Контекстное окно 1M и генерация до 128K выходных токенов за ответ (SWE-bench Verified 84.6% · GPQA Diamond 82.3%)
- Высокая скорость генерации 78 токенов/сек при задержке до первого токена (TTFT) всего 1400 мс
- Выгодная тарификация API (по цене $4/$20 за 1M токенов) с поддержкой кэширования промптов и строгих JSON-схем
Considerations & Trade-offs
- Проприетарная облачная модель без возможности скачивания весов для локального запуска в закрытом контуре
- При больших объемах трафика рекомендуется использовать кэширование промптов и Batch API для снижения затрат
Token Use & Task Economics
Estimated cost and token consumption to complete one representative agentic task.
| Metric | Nemotron Nano 12B v2 VL | Claude Opus 5.5 |
|---|---|---|
Cost per Task Estimated USD to finish one task | $0.09 | $3.85 |
Output Tokens / Task Tokens generated per task | 24K | 68K |
Reasoning Tokens / Task Thinking tokens burned per task | 8K | 42K |
Технические характеристики
Architecture, release timeline, capabilities, and modalities.
| Feature | Nemotron Nano 12B v2 VL | Claude Opus 5.5 |
|---|---|---|
| Official API Model ID (SDK) | nemotron-nano-12b-v2-vl | claude-opus-5-5-20260901 |
| API Protocol | OpenAI-Compatible REST / vLLM / SGLang / HuggingFace TGI | Anthropic Messages API + AWS Bedrock + Vertex AI |
| Release Date | 2025-10 | 2026-09 |
| Knowledge Cutoff | August 2025 | June 2026 |
| Architecture | Compact Vision-Language Transformer | Extended Autonomous Hybrid Reasoning Transformer |
| Parameters | 12B | Confidential |
| Enterprise Rate Limits (RPM / TPM) | Unlimited (Hardware-bound on self-hosted GPU) / 10,000 RPM Cloud · Unlimited local throughput / 10M+ TPM Managed Cloud | 4,000 – 10,000 RPM (Tier 4 + Priority Tier) · 4,000,000 – 10,000,000 TPM |
| Long-Context Tier (>128K/200K) | Flat rate ($0.12/1M in) across full 128K window | Standard rate up to 200K tokens; 2x input/output tier above 200K tokens |
| Prompt Cache Policy & TTL | Cached input at $0.03/1M tokens | $0.4/1M cached read (90% off); 5-min default & 1-hour extended TTL |
| Computer Use / GUI Agent | API / CLI Tool-Use & DOM Agent ready (no raw pixel desktop click loop) | Supported (Screen coordinate grounding, browser & desktop GUI action loops) |
| MCP & Parallel Tool Calling | Native MCP Client/Server ready · Parallel function calling · 100% Strict JSON Schema | Native MCP Client/Server ready · Parallel function calling · 100% Strict JSON Schema |
| Web Search Grounding & Sandbox | Supported via external Tavily/Exa Search & E2B/Docker Sandbox tools | Native Web Search Citations + Code Execution Tool + MCP Connectors |
| Official Fine-Tuning Support | Full Weights SFT, LoRA, QLoRA, DPO & GRPO RL (Unsloth / Axolotl / Llama-Factory) | Custom Model Tuning via Amazon Bedrock & Prompt Distillation |
| Multimodal Token Billing | Text BPE (~4 chars/token) · Vision (~258–765 tokens per image tile) | Text BPE (~4 chars/token) · Vision (~258–765 tokens per image tile) |
| Quantization & Min GPU VRAM | BF16 / FP16, FP8 Dynamic, INT4 AWQ / GPTQ, GGUF (Q4_K_M / Q8_0) · 7 GB VRAM (4-bit Quantized) · 26 GB VRAM (Native BF16) | Cloud-Hosted Proprietary (FP8 / BF16 Tensor Core Cluster) · Zero Local VRAM Required (100% Serverless Cloud API) |
| Safety & Frontier Classification | Open-Weights System Card + Customizable Guardrail Layer (Llama Guard / ShieldGemma) | Anthropic RSP ASL-2 / ASL-3 Constitutional Safety Evaluated |
| Enterprise Compliance (ZDR/HIPAA/SOC2) | 100% Air-Gapped On-Premises / Private VPC · Full HIPAA, GDPR & SOC2 Control | SOC2 Type II · GDPR · Zero Data Retention (ZDR) & HIPAA BAA Available on Enterprise Tier |
| Input Modalities | text, vision | text, vision |
| Output Modalities | text | text |
Nemotron Nano 12B v2 VL vs Claude Opus 5.5: Быстрые ответы (FAQ)
Which is more intelligent, Nemotron Nano 12B v2 VL or Claude Opus 5.5?
Claude Opus 5.5 is more intelligent. It scores 94 compared with 43 on the composite Intelligence Index.
Which model is faster?
Nemotron Nano 12B v2 VL is faster, generating 110 tokens per second compared with 78 tokens per second.
Which model is cheaper to run?
Nemotron Nano 12B v2 VL is cheaper at $0.07 per 1M tokens blended, compared with $3.08 (7:2:1 cache:input:output ratio).
Which model has lower latency?
Nemotron Nano 12B v2 VL has lower latency, with a time to first token of 0.35s compared with 1.40s.
Which model has a larger context window?
Claude Opus 5.5 has a larger context window, supporting 1M tokens compared with 128K tokens.
Вердикт
Choose Nemotron Nano 12B v2 VL for оптимально для нативной мультимодальной обработки текста и изображений, а также анализа документов, корпоративных rag-пайплайнов и масштабируемых api-сервисов., or choose Claude Opus 5.5 for оптимально для передового корпоративного рассуждения, программирования и промышленных ии-систем, корпоративных rag-пайплайнов и масштабируемых api-сервисов..
Часто задаваемые вопросы (FAQ)
Which is cheaper: Nemotron Nano 12B v2 VL or Claude Opus 5.5?+
Nemotron Nano 12B v2 VL costs $0.12/1M input and $0.3/1M output tokens, while Claude Opus 5.5 costs $4/1M input and $20/1M output tokens.
Which model has a larger context window: Nemotron Nano 12B v2 VL or Claude Opus 5.5?+
Nemotron Nano 12B v2 VL supports 128K tokens whereas Claude Opus 5.5 supports 1M tokens.
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