Nemotron Nano 12B 2 VL (free)

Nemotron Nano 12B 2 VL (free) by NVIDIA excels in the Coding category, where it ranks #32 with a composite score of 64/100. 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 memory-efficient sequence modeling for significantly higher throughput and lower latency. The model supports inputs of text and multi-image documents, producing natural-language outputs. It is trained on high-quality NVIDIA-curated synthetic datasets optimized for optical-character recognition, chart reasoning, and multimodal comprehension. Nemotron Nano 2 VL achieves leading results on OCRBench v2 and scores ≈ 74 average across MMMU, MathVista, AI2D, OCRBench, OCR-Reasoning, ChartQA, DocVQA, and Video-MME—surpassing prior open VL baselines. With Efficient Video Sampling (EVS), it handles long-form videos while reducing inference cost. Open-weights, training data, and fine-tuning recipes are released under a permissive NVIDIA open license, with deployment supported across NeMo, NIM, and major inference runtimes. It is particularly strong in areas highlighted by its top benchmark performance and adoption metrics, making it suitable for both individual developers and enterprise teams looking for a reliable coding solution.

Nemotron Nano 12B 2 VL (free) is priced at $0.00 per million input tokens and $0.00 per million output tokens (USD). Contact the provider for volume discounts and enterprise pricing. Pricing is competitive within the coding category and reflects the model's quality-to-cost ratio.

In the Coding category, Nemotron Nano 12B 2 VL (free) holds rank #32 out of 6 models tracked. Its quality rank is #32 and adoption rank is #32. You can use our comparison tool at /compare to see detailed side-by-side metrics with specific alternatives. Key differentiators include its composite scoring across benchmarks, community sentiment, and real-world adoption rates.

Nemotron Nano 12B 2 VL (free) has been evaluated across 6 different signals. Its strongest areas include Capabilities (57/100), Context Window (81/100), Output Capacity (85/100). These scores are derived from industry-standard benchmarks, community ratings, and real-world performance metrics. The composite score of 64/100 reflects a weighted combination of all tracked signals.

Nemotron Nano 12B 2 VL (free) is available as a free, open-source model. You can run it locally or use it through various hosting providers. Some API providers may charge for hosted inference, so check individual provider pricing.