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Nemotron Nano 1.5B on HumanEval: score, rank and what it means

Nemotron Nano 1.5B scores 44.0 on HumanEval, placing it #591 of 600 models in the index. The benchmark average is 74.0 and the leader is GPT-5.2 Pro at 96.8.

Score
44.0
0–100 scale
Rank
#591
of 600
Percentile
2th
within the index
Benchmark avg
74.0
all models
Leader
96.8
GPT-5.2 Pro
Gap to leader
52.8
points

Score distribution

The chart shows the top 10 models on HumanEval, with Nemotron Nano 1.5B highlighted. Longer bars mean higher scores.

GPT-5.2 Pro 96.8
Gemini 3 Pro Pro 95.0
o4 Max 94.6
Grok 4 Reasoning 93.8
Claude Opus 4.5 93.7
GPT-5.2 Max 93.6
Claude Opus 4.5 Pro 93.4
Grok 4 Max 93.4
GPT-5.2 Turbo 93.2
GPT-5.1 Reasoning 92.9

Top 10 leaderboard

#ModelProviderContextInput / 1MAvg score
1 GPT-5.2 Pro OpenAI 2000000 $21.32 89.6
2 Gemini 3 Pro Pro Google DeepMind 200000 $19.80 87.3
3 o4 Max OpenAI 2000000 $19.51 86.2
4 Grok 4 Reasoning xAI 2000000 $19.67 87.8
5 Claude Opus 4.5 Anthropic 400000 $19.42 87.7
6 GPT-5.2 Max OpenAI 1000000 $21.39 89.2
7 Claude Opus 4.5 Pro Anthropic 200000 $20.98 89.1
8 Grok 4 Max xAI 2000000 $19.70 86.6
9 GPT-5.2 Turbo OpenAI 1000000 $20.73 87.4
10 GPT-5.1 Reasoning OpenAI 400000 $20.27 88.3

What this score means

On HumanEval, Nemotron Nano 1.5B sits at #591 of 600. The leader, GPT-5.2 Pro, scores 96.8, so the gap to the top is 52.8 points. The median model in this index scores 77.4, which puts Nemotron Nano 1.5B below the midpoint.

NVIDIA models average 65.9 on this benchmark. Nemotron Nano 1.5B is 21.9 points below that provider line, so it is a weaker result than the average NVIDIA model.

Among small open-weight models, the average is 56.7. Nemotron Nano 1.5B is 12.7 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 44.0 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 $0.10 per million input tokens, Nemotron Nano 1.5B is below the median input price of $4.00 across the 600 models scored on HumanEval. The models immediately around it in the ranking are shown below so you can compare score and price together.

ModelProviderContextInput / 1MAvg score
Molmo 1.5B Allen Institute for AI 8192 $0.21 42.8
Zephyr 8B Hugging Face 8192 $0.22 43.0
StableLM 2 7B Stability AI 8192 $0.28 44.3
GPT-NeoX 8B EleutherAI 16384 $0.25 43.7
Nemotron Nano 1.5B NVIDIA 8192 $0.10 41.5
GPT-NeoX 7B EleutherAI 8192 $0.20 42.4
Pythia 7B EleutherAI 8192 $0.10 40.7

Other benchmarks for Nemotron Nano 1.5B

BenchmarkScoreRankPercentileRelative
MMLU-Pro 50.7 591 2th
GPQA Diamond 38.8 590 2th
SWE-bench Verified 26.2 593 1th
MATH-500 39.3 592 1th
AIME 2025 25.6 592 1th
LiveCodeBench 26.3 590 2th
IFEval 52.0 596 1th
TruthfulQA 50.1 591 2th
HellaSwag 61.1 594 1th
MMMU 42.8 587 2th
Arena Elo 1125.7 595 1th

FAQ

What score does Nemotron Nano 1.5B get on HumanEval?

Nemotron Nano 1.5B scores 44.0 on HumanEval in this index. The benchmark average is 74.0 and the top score is 96.8.

How does Nemotron Nano 1.5B rank on HumanEval?

It ranks #591 of 600 models, in the 2nd percentile. The leader is GPT-5.2 Pro at 96.8.

Is Nemotron Nano 1.5B good at HumanEval?

It is below the median for this benchmark, so test it carefully before relying on it for this capability. The result should be read alongside its price and context window.

How is the HumanEval score calculated?

HumanEval is a coding 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 Nano 1.5B cost?

Nemotron Nano 1.5B costs $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.48 per million output tokens.

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