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Nemotron 3 Ultra is NVIDIA's frontier-scale open model with 550B total / 55B active parameters, built for agentic reasoning, long-context analysis, tool use, and high-stakes RAG.
Updated Aug 12, 2026. Default version: Nemotron 3 Ultra (550B A55B)
Technical details for the model's default version.
This profile uses the model's current scored version. Arena ratings and prices are shown separately.
Benchmark scores for Nemotron 3 Ultra (550B A55B).
| Apex | 84.8% | 01 | 2 | 100.0% | C | |
| IMO-AnswerBench | 92.3% | 01 | 19 | 100.0% | C | |
| OmniScience | 78.7% | 01 | 2 | 100.0% | C | |
| PinchBench | 90.0% | 01 | 4 | 100.0% | C | |
| ProfBench | 56.0% | 01 | 1 | 100.0% | C | |
| RULER | 94.7% | 01 | 4 | 100.0% | C | |
| IFBench | 81.7% | 02 | 29 | 96.4% | C | |
| GDPval | 46.7% | 03 | 3 | 0.0% | C | |
| CritPT | 3.1% | 04 | 4 | 0.0% | C | |
| LiveCodeBench v6 | 89.0% | 04 | 53 | 94.2% | C | |
| LongBench v2 | 61.9% | 04 | 17 | 81.3% | C | |
| MMLU-ProX | 83.0% | 05 | 32 | 87.1% | C | |
| TAU3-Bench | 22.6% | 05 | 5 | 0.0% | C | |
| Multi-Challenge | 63.8% | 06 | 29 | 82.1% | C | |
| WMT24++ | 83.7% | 06 | 23 | 77.3% | C | |
| Finance Agent | 53.7% | 08 | 8 | 0.0% | C | |
| AA-LCR | 65.4% | 09 | 16 | 46.7% | C | |
| MMLU-Pro | 86.8% | 09 | 129 | 93.8% | C | |
| SciCode | 44.6% | 09 | 19 | 55.6% | C | |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 56.4% | 17 | 19 | 11.1% | C | |
| Finance Agent v2 | 37.5% | 20 | 26 | 24.0% | B | |
| SWE-bench Multilingual | 67.7% | 21 | 34 | 39.4% | C | |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 37.4% | 37 | 93 | 60.9% | C | |
| GPQA | 87.0% | 42 | 234 | 82.4% | C | |
| BrowseComp | 44.4% | 49 | 58 | 15.8% | C | |
| SWE-Bench Verified | 70.7% | 57 | 105 | 46.1% | C |
Preference and agent-evaluation results for the default version.
| agent tool hallucination | overall | 33 | 0.0 | N/A | 135.6K | |
| agent bash recovery steps | overall | 43 | -0.2 | N/A | 7.8K | |
| agent praise complaint | overall | 43 | -0.1 | N/A | 878 | |
| agent | overall | 44 | -0.1 | N/A | 152.4K | |
| agent steerability | overall | 46 | -0.2 | N/A | 4.6K | |
| agent task outcome explicit | overall | 46 | -0.2 | N/A | 3.6K | |
| text | overall | 49 | 1445.0 | 10,719 | N/A | |
| text factuality | overall | 95 | 1430.0 | 10,719 | N/A | |
| text style control | overall | 96 | 1426.4 | 10,719 | N/A |
Provider-specific output speed and catalog latency for Nemotron 3 Ultra (550B A55B). Runtime does not affect the capability score.
No provider-specific speed or latency record is linked to the default version yet.
Output Speed is generated output tokens received per second. Catalog latency is reported separately from observed provider TTFT.
Official vendor API pricing appears first, followed by individual provider offers.
| Kenari | nemotron-3-ultra-550b-a55b | global | N/A | N/A | 1M | |
| UnoRouter | nemotron-3-ultra-550b-a55b:free | global | N/A | N/A | 1M | |
| routing.run | nemotron-3-ultra | global | $0.10 | $0.10 | 131.1K | |
| Nvidia | nvidia/nemotron-3-ultra-550b-a55b | global | $0.50 | $2.5 | 1M | |
| NanoGPT | nvidia/nemotron-3-ultra-550b-a55b | global | $0.50 | $2.5 | 1M | |
| LLM Gateway | nemotron-3-ultra-550b | global | $0.50 | $2.5 | 1M | |
| Pioneer | nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Ultra-550B-A55B-BF16 | global | $0.50 | $2.5 | 1M | |
| Kilo Gateway | nvidia/nemotron-3-ultra-550b-a55b | global | $0.50 | $2.2 | 512.3K | |
| Together AI | nvidia/nemotron-3-ultra-550b-a55b | global | $0.60 | $3.6 | 512.3K | |
| Vercel AI Gateway | nvidia/nemotron-3-ultra-550b-a55b | global | $0.60 | $2.4 | 1M | |
| OpenRouter | nvidia/nemotron-3-ultra-550b-a55b | global | $0.60 | $3.6 | 512.3K |
Official prices use only the vendor's configured official Provider and positive standard USD PAYG rates. Third-party offers remain explicitly labeled.
Available versions of this model. The score column identifies the version used in the overall ranking.
| Nemotron 3 Ultra (550B A55B) | 62.9 | 550B | 1M | 128K | Yes | OpenMDW License v1.1 |
Key information about Nemotron 3 Ultra and its available data.
Nemotron 3 Ultra is NVIDIA's frontier-scale open model with 550B total / 55B active parameters, built for agentic reasoning, long-context analysis, tool use, and high-stakes RAG.
It uses a hybrid Latent Mixture-of-Experts (LatentMoE) architecture interleaving Mamba-2, MoE, and select Attention layers, with Multi-Token Prediction (MTP) for native speculative decoding, and is pre-trained on ~20T tokens with an NVFP4 recipe.
Reasoning is configurable on/off (plus a medium-effort mode) via the chat template. It supports up to a 1M-token context and 10 languages (English, French, Spanish, Italian, German, Japanese, Hindi, Korean, Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese). 1 license.
Data as of 2026-08-11.
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Common questions about Nemotron 3 Ultra.
Nemotron 3 Ultra's default version was released on Jun 4, 2026.
Nemotron 3 Ultra's official API price is $0.50 per million input tokens and $2.5 per million output tokens via Nvidia. The lowest tracked third-party offer starts at $0.10 input and $0.10 output via routing.run.
Nemotron 3 Ultra was created by NVIDIA.
The default version has a 1M token context window.
Yes. The default version is marked as open weight under OpenMDW License v1.1.
11 provider offerings are linked to the default version.
Nearby ranked alternatives include Gemini 3 Flash, MiMo V2 Pro, GPT-5.3-Codex.