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Model comparison

Nemotron 3 Ultra vs Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct

Nemotron 3 Ultra is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.5 to 29.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.

Nemotron 3 Ultra NVIDIA

42.5

Rank #113 Confirmed

Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct Alibaba (Qwen)

29.9

Rank #302 Confirmed

Summary

  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Nemotron 3 Ultra leads 31.0 to 20.7.
  • Nemotron 3 Ultra is cheaper at $0.50 / $2.20 per million input/output tokens, against $2.80 / $8.40 for Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct.
  • Nemotron 3 Ultra accepts more context: 262K tokens versus 131K.

Side by side

Nemotron 3 UltraQwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct
ProviderNVIDIAAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index42.529.9
Released2026-06-042024-09
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window262K131K
Max output128K8K
Input $ / M tokens$0.50$2.80
Output $ / M tokens$2.20$8.40
Results tracked306

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Nemotron 3 Ultra: 38.1 (#182), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: —

BenchmarkNemotron 3 UltraQwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct
FrontierCode13.6%—
SciCode40.3%—
WeirdML43.5%—
LMArena Coding1468—

Agentic & Tool Use Nemotron 3 Ultra leads

Nemotron 3 Ultra: 23.4 (#126), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: 18.6 (#144)

BenchmarkNemotron 3 UltraQwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct
APEX-Agents22.7%—
OSWorld—5%

Reasoning Nemotron 3 Ultra leads

Nemotron 3 Ultra: 31.0 (#82), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: 20.7 (#233)

BenchmarkNemotron 3 UltraQwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct
Kagi LLM Benchmark—36%
CritPt3.1%—
Chess Puzzles12%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1452—
Mystery Game Puzzles20%—
DTBench90.1%—
LMCA36.9%—
Epoch Capabilities Index146.17—

Math Not comparable

Nemotron 3 Ultra: 35.3 (#187), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: —

BenchmarkNemotron 3 UltraQwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202586.7%—
ProofBench2%—
LMArena Math1457—

Knowledge Not comparable

Nemotron 3 Ultra: 52.5 (#61), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: —

BenchmarkNemotron 3 UltraQwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct
GPQA Diamond85.4%—
LMArena Expert1472—

Multimodal Not comparable

Nemotron 3 Ultra: —, Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: 33.5 (#97)

BenchmarkNemotron 3 UltraQwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct
LMArena Vision—1107
Video-MME—73.5%
GeoBench—62%
SpatialViz-Bench—33.3%

Multilingual Not comparable

Nemotron 3 Ultra: 53.5 (#64), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: —

BenchmarkNemotron 3 UltraQwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct
LMArena Non-English1427—
LMArena Chinese1497—
LMArena French1472—
LMArena German1471—
LMArena Korean1386—
LMArena Russian1417—
LMArena Spanish1454—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Nemotron 3 Ultra: 74.7 (#88), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: —

BenchmarkNemotron 3 UltraQwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct
LMArena Instruction Following1418—

Long Context Not comparable

Nemotron 3 Ultra: 43.9 (#81), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: —

BenchmarkNemotron 3 UltraQwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct
LMArena Longer Query1437—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Nemotron 3 Ultra: 66.3 (#36), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: —

BenchmarkNemotron 3 UltraQwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct
LMArena Text1445—
LMArena Creative Writing1398—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1692—
LMArena Multi-Turn1411—

Frequently asked questions

Is Nemotron 3 Ultra better than Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct?

Nemotron 3 Ultra is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.5 to 29.9 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, Nemotron 3 Ultra or Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct?

Nemotron 3 Ultra is cheaper. It lists at $0.50 per million input tokens and $2.20 per million output tokens; Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct lists at $2.80 and $8.40.

Which has the bigger context window?

Nemotron 3 Ultra does, with 262K tokens against 131K.

How many benchmarks do Nemotron 3 Ultra and Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Nemotron 3 Ultra has 30 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct has 6.

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