NVIDIA: Nemotron Nano 12B 2 VL
Analysis Summary
NVIDIA: Nemotron Nano 12B 2 VL sits in the Efficient tier on our leaderboard, ranked #196 of 557 published models on overall intelligence. At $0.200 input and $0.600 output per 1M tokens, it is among the most expensive on the market. It offers a standard large context window and supports vision.
Editorial notes
NVIDIA Nemotron Nano 12B 2 VL supports vision and video input with tool use at low pricing, but its intelligence and coding indices are limited, restricting it to lighter multimodal tasks.
Assessed May 14, 2026
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Performance Profile
NVIDIA Nemotron Nano 2 VL is a 12-billion-parameter open multimodal reasoning model designed for video understanding and document intelligence. It introduces a hybrid Transformer-Mamba architecture, combining transformer-level accuracy with Mamba’s..
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Model Information
| OpenRouter ID |
nvidia/nemotron-nano-12b-v2-vl
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| Provider | nvidia |
| Release Date | October 28, 2025 |
| Context Length | 131,072 tokens |
| Max Completion | 16,384 tokens |
| Status | Active |
Pricing
| Token Type | Cost per 1M tokens | Cost per 1K tokens |
|---|---|---|
| Input | $0.20 | $0.000200 |
| Output | $0.60 | $0.000600 |
