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Nemotron 3 Ultra#32 for research and analysis.#32 for research and analysis, best at its default setting.

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Nemotron 3 Ultra is made by NVIDIA. Among the models we track it ranks #32 for research and analysis. It's cheap to use. Its makers have published it, so you can run it on your own servers.

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Writing & creativity
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Research & analysis
47.1 / 100 · #32
Coding
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Price
Cheap$0.60 / $2.40
Price per 1M (blended)Blended / 1M
$1.05
MemoryContext
262K
Longest answerMax output
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Test resultsResults
16 (16 independent16 indep.)
Out sinceReleased
4 Jun 2026
Made byVendor
NVIDIA
UnderstandsInputs
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Scores are out of 100 for each area, compared with every model we track; “#” is its rank. Context is how much text it can read at once (1M is roughly 700,000 words). Blended price mixes the cost of what you send and what it writes back.

Thinking levels

Reasoning settings

You can't choose how long this one thinks.

No adjustable reasoning setting listed.

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Links

Using it through OpenRouter

On OpenRouter

OpenRouter is a service that gives access to many AI models in one place. This model is listed there as nvidia/nemotron-3-ultra-550b-a55b.

Route it as nvidia/nemotron-3-ultra-550b-a55b at $0.60 in / $2.40 out per 1M tokens, 262K context. Listed since 4 Jun 2026.

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Run it yourself

Self-hosting

On your own servers,Licence, sizeunder your own control.and hardware.

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LicenceLicence
OpenMDW-1.1
OK for business useCommercial use
Yes
SizeParams (total / active)
550B / 55B
Can be trained furtherBase model
Yes ↗

Hardware you'd need

Hardware tier & memory

Needs one full AI server.

≤ 1.1 TB at 8-bit (one 8×H200 node). Weights ≈ 578 GB at 8-bit, 303 GB at 4-bit (+10–30% for KV cache). MoE: 55B active per token.

Licence conditions: Permissive: on redistribution keep a copy of the license and notices; rights terminate if you sue claiming the model infringes patents/copyright. No restrictions on outputs.

Restrictions: Permissive: on redistribution keep a copy of the license and notices; rights terminate if you sue claiming the model infringes patents/copyright. No restrictions on outputs.

Languages: Languages: Supported: English, French, Spanish, Italian, German, Japanese, Hindi, Korean, Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese (no Nordic).

Training it further: Fine-tuning: Trained with Megatron-LM / NeMo RL / NeMo Gym; pre- and post-training datasets largely published (Nemotron datasets).

Quantisations: bf16, nvfp4 (nvidia/...-NVFP4), fp8-block / w4a16 (community: RedHatAI), gguf (community: unsloth). Engines: vLLM, SGLang, TensorRT-LLM (Blackwell only).

Download (Hugging Face)Weights on Hugging Face ↗huggingface.co ↗raw.githubusercontent.com ↗

Every test result

Every result

All the numbers,with where they came from.

Every result we've found for this model, with who measured it and a link to where we read it.

All raw rows (vendor and independent kept separate), with setting label, source, date, harness and notes.

All results for this model
NotesNotes
AA Analyst Agent6.3%DefaultNemotron 3 Ultra 550B A55B (Reasoning)Independent testIndependentArtificial Analysis ↗1 Oct 2026—AA-run; scores move in 1.25-pt steps (small task set)
AA-Briefcase v1.1876DefaultNemotron 3 Ultra 550B A55B (Reasoning)Independent testIndependentArtificial Analysis ↗1 Oct 2026—
AA-LCR79.3%DefaultNemotron 3 Ultra 550B A55B (Reasoning)Independent testIndependentArtificial Analysis ↗1 Oct 2026—AA-LCR accuracy, AA-run (long multi-document reasoning)
AA-Omniscience Accuracy22.6%DefaultNemotron 3 Ultra 550B A55B (Reasoning)Independent testIndependentArtificial Analysis ↗1 Oct 2026—
AA-Omniscience Hallucination Rate29.7%DefaultNemotron 3 Ultra 550B A55B (Reasoning)Independent testIndependentArtificial Analysis ↗1 Oct 2026—share of non-correct answers that were wrong instead of abstaining; = 1 - AA 'omniscienceNonHallucination' field (equals breakdown.hallucinationRate on the eval page)
AA-Omniscience Index-0.4DefaultNemotron 3 Ultra 550B A55B (Reasoning)Independent testIndependentArtificial Analysis ↗1 Oct 2026—AA-Omniscience Index (-100..100): correct minus incorrect, abstentions not penalised
Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index22.9DefaultNemotron 3 Ultra 550B A55B (Reasoning)Independent testIndependentArtificial Analysis ↗1 Oct 2026—AA slug nvidia-nemotron-3-ultra-550b-a55b
Artificial Analysis output speed155 tok/sDefaultNemotron 3 Ultra 550B A55B (Reasoning)Independent testIndependentArtificial Analysis ↗1 Oct 2026—AA slug nvidia-nemotron-3-ultra-550b-a55b; median output tokens/sec across AA-tracked API providers (not a self-hosted measurement)
EQ-Bench Creative Writing v3 (Elo)1692Defaultnvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Ultra-550B-A55B-NVFP4Independent testIndependentEQ-Bench ↗1 Oct 2026—leaderboard rank 34; rubric score 16.58/20; slop 18.42; avg length 10536 chars; Elo judged by Claude Sonnet 4.6; effort not stated by EQ-Bench
GDPval-AA v2.11000DefaultNemotron 3 Ultra 550B A55B (Reasoning)Independent testIndependentArtificial Analysis ↗1 Oct 2026—95% CI 977.9-1022.8
GPQA Diamond86.7%DefaultNemotron 3 Ultra 550B A55B (Reasoning)Independent testIndependentArtificial Analysis ↗1 Oct 2026—AA slug nvidia-nemotron-3-ultra-550b-a55b
Harvey LAB-AA81.7%DefaultNemotron 3 Ultra 550B A55B (Reasoning)Independent testIndependentArtificial Analysis ↗1 Oct 2026—criteria pass rate, AA-run
Humanity's Last Exam28.4%DefaultNemotron 3 Ultra 550B A55B (Reasoning)Independent testIndependentArtificial Analysis ↗1 Oct 2026—AA slug nvidia-nemotron-3-ultra-550b-a55b
LiveCodeBench86.0%DefaultIndependent testIndependentVals.ai ↗1 Sep 2026—±0.992 stderr
SciCode40.3%DefaultNemotron 3 Ultra 550B A55B (Reasoning)Independent testIndependentArtificial Analysis ↗1 Oct 2026—AA slug nvidia-nemotron-3-ultra-550b-a55b
Terminal-Bench 2.153.9%DefaultNemotron 3 Ultra 550B A55B (Reasoning)Independent testIndependentArtificial Analysis ↗1 Oct 2026—AA slug nvidia-nemotron-3-ultra-550b-a55b