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Nemotron Nano Base on LiveCodeBench: score, rank and what it means

Nemotron Nano Base scores 53.8 on LiveCodeBench, placing it #413 of 600 models in the index. The benchmark average is 61.0 and the leader is Claude Sonnet 4.5 Reasoning at 85.1.

Score
53.8
0–100 scale
Rank
#413
of 600
Percentile
31th
within the index
Benchmark avg
61.0
all models
Leader
85.1
Claude Sonnet 4.5 Reasoning
Gap to leader
31.3
points

Score distribution

The chart shows the top 10 models on LiveCodeBench, with Nemotron Nano Base highlighted. Longer bars mean higher scores.

Claude Sonnet 4.5 Reasoning 85.1
Grok 4 Reasoning 85.1
Claude Opus 4.5 85.0
GPT-5.2 Max 84.8
Grok 4 Turbo 84.7
GPT-5.1 Turbo 84.6
GPT-5.2 Pro 84.6
GPT-5.2 Reasoning 84.6
Claude Opus 4.5 Pro 84.1
Gemini 3 Pro Max 83.6

Top 10 leaderboard

#ModelProviderContextInput / 1MAvg score
1 Claude Sonnet 4.5 Reasoning Anthropic 400000 $19.48 87.7
2 Grok 4 Reasoning xAI 2000000 $19.67 87.8
3 Claude Opus 4.5 Anthropic 400000 $19.42 87.7
4 GPT-5.2 Max OpenAI 1000000 $21.39 89.2
5 Grok 4 Turbo xAI 1000000 $19.21 86.7
6 GPT-5.1 Turbo OpenAI 2000000 $19.19 86.1
7 GPT-5.2 Pro OpenAI 2000000 $21.32 89.6
8 GPT-5.2 Reasoning OpenAI 1000000 $20.98 87.5
9 Claude Opus 4.5 Pro Anthropic 200000 $20.98 89.1
10 Gemini 3 Pro Max Google DeepMind 2000000 $20.57 87.9

What this score means

On LiveCodeBench, Nemotron Nano Base sits at #413 of 600. The leader, Claude Sonnet 4.5 Reasoning, scores 85.1, so the gap to the top is 31.3 points. The median model in this index scores 64.7, which puts Nemotron Nano Base below the midpoint.

NVIDIA models average 51.3 on this benchmark. Nemotron Nano Base is 2.5 points above that provider line, so it is a stronger result than the average NVIDIA model.

Among open-weight models, the average is 59.1. Nemotron Nano Base is 5.3 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 53.8 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 $1.85 per million input tokens, Nemotron Nano Base is below the median input price of $4.00 across the 600 models scored on LiveCodeBench. The models immediately around it in the ranking are shown below so you can compare score and price together.

ModelProviderContextInput / 1MAvg score
Command A Nano Cohere 8192 $5.90 66.3
Nemotron Nano Chat NVIDIA 32768 $2.21 66.2
Embed 4 Cohere 32768 $4.79 63.8
GPT-NeoX Instruct EleutherAI 16384 $1.52 62.6
Nemotron Nano Base NVIDIA 8192 $1.85 65.0
GLM-4.5 8B Zhipu AI 32768 $1.46 61.3
ERNIE 4.0 Nano Baidu 32768 $4.68 62.1

Other benchmarks for Nemotron Nano Base

BenchmarkScoreRankPercentileRelative
MMLU-Pro 68.0 418 30th
GPQA Diamond 57.8 430 28th
SWE-bench Verified 53.3 395 34th
HumanEval 68.0 415 31th
MATH-500 68.4 396 34th
AIME 2025 59.9 388 35th
IFEval 75.7 392 35th
TruthfulQA 68.8 407 32th
HellaSwag 79.5 388 35th
MMMU 62.2 407 32th
Arena Elo 1318.8 397 34th

FAQ

What score does Nemotron Nano Base get on LiveCodeBench?

Nemotron Nano Base scores 53.8 on LiveCodeBench in this index. The benchmark average is 61.0 and the top score is 85.1.

How does Nemotron Nano Base rank on LiveCodeBench?

It ranks #413 of 600 models, in the 31st percentile. The leader is Claude Sonnet 4.5 Reasoning at 85.1.

Is Nemotron Nano Base good at LiveCodeBench?

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 LiveCodeBench score calculated?

LiveCodeBench 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 Base cost?

Nemotron Nano Base costs $1.85 per million input tokens and $8.64 per million output tokens.

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