Nvidia Nemotron Nano 12B V2 VL
Nvidia Nemotron Nano 12B V2 VL is a reasoning model from NVIDIA released on Oct 28, 2025. It reads text and images and writes text, with a 131K token context window and up to 131K tokens per reply.
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It costs $0.20 per million input tokens and $0.60 per million output tokens.
It supports tool calling and structured JSON output, and its weights are open, so you can host it yourself.
3 providers serve it, including Amazon Bedrock, Vercel AI Gateway and DigitalOcean.
- Modalities
- In / out price
- $0.20 / $0.60 per 1M
- Context
- 131K
- Max output
- 131K
- Released
- Oct 28, 2025
- Knowledge cutoff
- n/a
- Tool calling
- Structured output
- Reasoning
- Prompt caching
- Open weights
- Free to use
Nvidia Nemotron Nano 12B V2 VL pricing
USD, as listed on Oct 15, 2026. Most bills are input heavy, so the cached input rate matters as much as the headline price.
| Input | $0.20 / 1M tokens | |
|---|---|---|
| Output | $0.60 / 1M tokens |
Nvidia Nemotron Nano 12B V2 VL providers
3 providers serve it, including Amazon Bedrock, Vercel AI Gateway and DigitalOcean. Each host sets its own price and limits, so the cheapest one is not always the one with the longest context.
| Provider | Input /M | Output /M | Cache read /M | Context | Max output |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amazon Bedrock | $0.20 | $0.60 | – | 131K | 8K |
| Vercel AI Gateway | $0.20 | $0.60 | – | 131K | 131K |
| DigitalOcean | $0.20 | $0.60 | $0.04 | 128K | 16K |
What Nvidia Nemotron Nano 12B V2 VL costs per month
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Supported request parameters
What you can set when you call Nvidia Nemotron Nano 12B V2 VL through an OpenAI compatible API.
- Tools
tools - Structured outputs
structured_outputs - Reasoning
reasoning - Temperature
temperature
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Nvidia Nemotron Nano 12B V2 VL questions
How much does the Nvidia Nemotron Nano 12B V2 VL API cost?
$0.20 per million input tokens and $0.60 per million output tokens. The estimator on this page turns that into a monthly bill for your own workload.
What is the context window of Nvidia Nemotron Nano 12B V2 VL?
131,072 tokens of input, and it can write up to 131,072 tokens in one reply. As a rough guide, a million tokens is around 750,000 English words.
Which providers serve Nvidia Nemotron Nano 12B V2 VL?
3 providers serve it, including Amazon Bedrock, Vercel AI Gateway and DigitalOcean. Prices differ by host, so the Providers table on this page lists each one with its input and output price.
Does Nvidia Nemotron Nano 12B V2 VL support tool calling?
Yes. It accepts tool definitions and can return JSON that matches a schema, which is what an agent needs to call your APIs.
Is Nvidia Nemotron Nano 12B V2 VL open source?
Its weights are published, so you can run it on your own hardware or a cloud of your choice. Read the license before commercial use.
When was Nvidia Nemotron Nano 12B V2 VL released?
Oct 28, 2025.
Catalog data from models.dev (MIT licensed), refreshed daily, last on Oct 15, 2026. The summary is written from these facts.
Building on Nvidia Nemotron Nano 12B V2 VL?
I test your real tasks on it and the two closest alternatives, then ship the agent on whichever wins on cost and accuracy.
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