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Nemotron-Nano-12B-v2-VL

nemotron-nano-12b-v2-vl

Researched 29d ago

Last refreshed 2026-05-11. Next refresh: weekly.

MultimodalVisionJSON / Tool use

Nemotron-Nano-12B-v2-VL is worth evaluating for vision and json / tool use when its provider route and context window match the workload.

Decision context: Vision task fit, 2 tracked provider routes, and research from 2026-04-19.

Use it for

  • Teams evaluating vision and json / tool use
  • Buyers comparing 2 tracked provider routes

Do not use it for

  • Workloads where another current model has stronger sourced task evidence

Cheapest output

$0.600

OpenRouter per 1M tokens

Provider routes

2

Tracked API hosts

Quality / dollar

Unknown

No task benchmark coverage yet

Freshness

2026-04-19

Researched 29d ago

fresh

Top use-case fit

Vision

Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.

JSON / Tool use

Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.

Provider price ladder

ProviderInput / 1MOutput / 1MRoute
OpenRouter$0.200$0.600
Serverless
NVIDIA NIM--
ServerlessPartial

Benchmark peer barsfor Vision

No task-mapped benchmark peers are available for this model yet.

Migration checks

No linked migration route is available for this model yet.

About

12B vision-language model with multimodal understanding

Nemotron-Nano-12B-v2-VL input tokens at $0.2/1M, output at $0.6/1M.

Capabilities

VisionMultimodalStructured Outputs

Rankings

Specifications

Released2025-10-28
Parameters12B
ArchitectureDecoder Only
Specializationgeneral

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