Nemotron Nano Instruct on SWE-bench Verified: score, rank and what it means
Nemotron Nano Instruct scores 54.5 on SWE-bench Verified, placing it #388 of 600 models in the index. The benchmark average is 57.5 and the leader is GPT-5.2 Pro at 81.7.
Score distribution
The chart shows the top 10 models on SWE-bench Verified, with Nemotron Nano Instruct highlighted. Longer bars mean higher scores.
Top 10 leaderboard
| # | Model | Provider | Context | Input / 1M | Avg score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | GPT-5.2 Pro | OpenAI | 2000000 | $21.32 | 89.6 |
| 2 | Claude Opus 4.5 Pro | Anthropic | 200000 | $20.98 | 89.1 |
| 3 | GPT-5.2 Max | OpenAI | 1000000 | $21.39 | 89.2 |
| 4 | Claude Sonnet 4.5 Max | Anthropic | 1000000 | $19.90 | 87.2 |
| 5 | GPT-5.2 | OpenAI | 2000000 | $19.71 | 88.0 |
| 6 | GPT-5.1 Pro | OpenAI | 200000 | $19.77 | 87.8 |
| 7 | o4 Max | OpenAI | 2000000 | $19.51 | 86.2 |
| 8 | Claude Sonnet 4.5 Reasoning | Anthropic | 400000 | $19.48 | 87.7 |
| 9 | Claude Opus 4.5 Max | Anthropic | 1000000 | $20.90 | 87.8 |
| 10 | Claude Opus 4.5 Reasoning | Anthropic | 2000000 | $20.91 | 88.2 |
What this score means
On SWE-bench Verified, Nemotron Nano Instruct sits at #388 of 600. The leader, GPT-5.2 Pro, scores 81.7, so the gap to the top is 27.2 points. The median model in this index scores 61.0, which puts Nemotron Nano Instruct below the midpoint.
NVIDIA models average 48.4 on this benchmark. Nemotron Nano Instruct is 6.1 points above that provider line, so it is a stronger result than the average NVIDIA model.
Among open-weight models, the average is 55.5. Nemotron Nano Instruct is 1.0 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 54.5 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 $2.33 per million input tokens, Nemotron Nano Instruct is below the median input price of $4.00 across the 600 models scored on SWE-bench Verified. The models immediately around it in the ranking are shown below so you can compare score and price together.
| Model | Provider | Context | Input / 1M | Avg score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grok 3 Nano | xAI | 8192 | $7.12 | 67.8 |
| DBRX Base | Databricks | 32768 | $2.63 | 69.1 |
| Mixtral Groq Base | Groq | 32768 | $2.66 | 68.4 |
| Command A Nano | Cohere | 8192 | $5.90 | 66.3 |
| Nemotron Nano Instruct | NVIDIA | 32768 | $2.33 | 67.4 |
| StableLM 2 Instruct | Stability AI | 16384 | $1.93 | 65.2 |
| Gemini 2.5 Pro Nano | Google DeepMind | 32768 | $7.28 | 69.2 |
Other benchmarks for Nemotron Nano Instruct
| Benchmark | Score | Rank | Percentile | Relative |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MMLU-Pro | 72.6 | 371 | 38th | |
| GPQA Diamond | 64.7 | 366 | 39th | |
| HumanEval | 72.9 | 375 | 38th | |
| MATH-500 | 67.4 | 404 | 33th | |
| AIME 2025 | 58.6 | 396 | 34th | |
| LiveCodeBench | 57.1 | 395 | 34th | |
| IFEval | 75.2 | 396 | 34th | |
| TruthfulQA | 73.0 | 369 | 39th | |
| HellaSwag | 79.7 | 384 | 36th | |
| MMMU | 66.2 | 368 | 39th | |
| Arena Elo | 1331.2 | 387 | 36th |
FAQ
What score does Nemotron Nano Instruct get on SWE-bench Verified?
Nemotron Nano Instruct scores 54.5 on SWE-bench Verified in this index. The benchmark average is 57.5 and the top score is 81.7.
How does Nemotron Nano Instruct rank on SWE-bench Verified?
It ranks #388 of 600 models, in the 35th percentile. The leader is GPT-5.2 Pro at 81.7.
Is Nemotron Nano Instruct good at SWE-bench Verified?
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 SWE-bench Verified score calculated?
SWE-bench Verified 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 Instruct cost?
Nemotron Nano Instruct costs $2.33 per million input tokens and $11.92 per million output tokens.