Nemotron 3.5 Super VL (120B A12B) vs North Micro Vision Instruct: Specs & Benchmark Comparison
Nemotron 3.5 Super VL (120B A12B) is developed by NVIDIA, while North Micro Vision Instruct comes from Cohere. North Micro Vision Instruct was released in August 2026, and Nemotron 3.5 Super VL (120B A12B) followed 2 months later in October 2026. Nemotron 3.5 Super VL (120B A12B) is the larger model at roughly 120 billion parameters, against 2 billion for North Micro Vision Instruct.
We have 19 benchmark results for Nemotron 3.5 Super VL (120B A12B) and 19 benchmark results for North Micro Vision Instruct, but they overlap on a single test: OCRBench-V2 (en), where Nemotron 3.5 Super VL (120B A12B) scores 68.1% against 36.7%.
Nemotron 3.5 Super VL (120B A12B) is available through an API at $0.20 per million input tokens with a 262K-token context window. We do not track a hosted API for North Micro Vision Instruct, so pricing and context cannot be compared directly.
| Characteristic | Nemotron 3.5 Super VL (120B A12B) | North Micro Vision Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Company | NVIDIA | Cohere |
| Release Date | October 15, 2026 | August 12, 2026 |
| Parameters | 120B | 2B |
| Multimodal | Yes | Yes |
| Context (input) | 262K | — |
| Context (output) | 262K | — |
| Input Price / 1M | $0.20 | — |
| Output Price / 1M | $1.00 | — |
| Average Score | 60.9% | 61.1% |
| Benchmarks | ||
| OCRBench-V2 (en) | 68.1% | 36.7% |
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Verdict
Nemotron 3.5 Super VL (120B A12B) leads in 1 out of 2 comparison categories.
Both models show comparable average scores: Nemotron 3.5 Super VL (120B A12B) — 0.6, North Micro Vision Instruct — 0.6.
Nemotron 3.5 Super VL (120B A12B) is newer: released 10/15/2026 vs 8/12/2026.
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