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Nemotron 4 Chat on IFEval: score, rank and what it means

Nemotron 4 Chat scores 81.8 on IFEval, placing it #281 of 600 models in the index. The benchmark average is 78.6 and the leader is Claude Opus 4.5 Pro at 96.1.

Score
81.8
0–100 scale
Rank
#281
of 600
Percentile
53th
within the index
Benchmark avg
78.6
all models
Leader
96.1
Claude Opus 4.5 Pro
Gap to leader
14.3
points

Score distribution

The chart shows the top 10 models on IFEval, with Nemotron 4 Chat highlighted. Longer bars mean higher scores.

Claude Opus 4.5 Pro 96.1
Claude Opus 4.5 Reasoning 95.9
GPT-5.2 Pro 95.6
GPT-5.2 Max 95.2
GPT-5.2 Reasoning 95.0
GPT-5.1 Pro 94.8
Gemini 3 Pro Max 94.7
GPT-5.1 Reasoning 94.6
Claude Opus 4.5 Max 94.5
o4 Reasoning 94.5

Top 10 leaderboard

#ModelProviderContextInput / 1MAvg score
1 Claude Opus 4.5 Pro Anthropic 200000 $20.98 89.1
2 Claude Opus 4.5 Reasoning Anthropic 2000000 $20.91 88.2
3 GPT-5.2 Pro OpenAI 2000000 $21.32 89.6
4 GPT-5.2 Max OpenAI 1000000 $21.39 89.2
5 GPT-5.2 Reasoning OpenAI 1000000 $20.98 87.5
6 GPT-5.1 Pro OpenAI 200000 $19.77 87.8
7 Gemini 3 Pro Max Google DeepMind 2000000 $20.57 87.9
8 GPT-5.1 Reasoning OpenAI 400000 $20.27 88.3
9 Claude Opus 4.5 Max Anthropic 1000000 $20.90 87.8
10 o4 Reasoning OpenAI 1000000 $19.69 87.5

What this score means

On IFEval, Nemotron 4 Chat sits at #281 of 600. The leader, Claude Opus 4.5 Pro, scores 96.1, so the gap to the top is 14.3 points. The median model in this index scores 81.2, which puts Nemotron 4 Chat above the midpoint.

NVIDIA models average 71.3 on this benchmark. Nemotron 4 Chat is 10.5 points above that provider line, so it is a stronger result than the average NVIDIA model.

Among multimodal models, the average is 85.2. Nemotron 4 Chat is 3.4 points below that group. This is the more useful comparison if you are shortlisting within the same tier rather than across the whole index.

Read a 81.8 as a relative signal, not an absolute guarantee. Benchmark scores depend on prompt format, evaluation harness and contamination controls. Use this page to narrow the shortlist, then test the model on your own data.

Price context

At $3.99 per million input tokens, Nemotron 4 Chat is below the median input price of $4.00 across the 600 models scored on IFEval. The models immediately around it in the ranking are shown below so you can compare score and price together.

ModelProviderContextInput / 1MAvg score
Command R+ Chat Cohere 32768 $4.02 76.0
Fusion Reasoning OpenRouter 65536 $8.59 72.2
Gemma 3 Google DeepMind 65536 $3.68 73.6
Llama 3.1 Chat Meta AI 32768 $3.82 75.3
Nemotron 4 Chat NVIDIA 65536 $3.99 75.0
DeepSeek-Coder Base DeepSeek 32768 $3.53 74.1
Llama 3 Anyscale Base Anyscale 65536 $3.23 72.9

Other benchmarks for Nemotron 4 Chat

BenchmarkScoreRankPercentileRelative
MMLU-Pro 77.2 271 55th
GPQA Diamond 69.4 283 53th
SWE-bench Verified 62.3 271 55th
HumanEval 78.6 277 54th
MATH-500 82.2 160 73th
AIME 2025 73.0 203 66th
LiveCodeBench 65.9 276 54th
TruthfulQA 79.2 210 65th
HellaSwag 84.4 268 55th
MMMU 71.1 271 55th
Arena Elo 1398.2 212 65th

FAQ

What score does Nemotron 4 Chat get on IFEval?

Nemotron 4 Chat scores 81.8 on IFEval in this index. The benchmark average is 78.6 and the top score is 96.1.

How does Nemotron 4 Chat rank on IFEval?

It ranks #281 of 600 models, in the 53rd percentile. The leader is Claude Opus 4.5 Pro at 96.1.

Is Nemotron 4 Chat good at IFEval?

Yes, relative to the index: it is above the median and inside the top half of scores. The result should be read alongside its price and context window.

How is the IFEval score calculated?

IFEval is a instruction following benchmark. Scores in this index are modelled estimates on a 0–100 scale (or Elo for Arena), derived from capability tier and benchmark difficulty. They are not official leaderboard results.

What does Nemotron 4 Chat cost?

Nemotron 4 Chat costs $3.99 per million input tokens and $16.11 per million output tokens.

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