NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Ultra
Analysis Summary
NVIDIA's Nemotron 3 Ultra is built for tool-connected work, with the strongest agentic profile in this batch and a coding result near the excellent range. It supports function calling and tool use, while its 262K context is suitable for substantial repositories, documents, and multi-step task state.
The model fits autonomous workflow prototypes, engineering assistants, research pipelines, and structured business automation. Instruction following is strong, and the model's agentic capability is a meaningful advantage over models with similar general intelligence. Its text-only modality means teams handling image-heavy briefs will need a separate vision model. Pricing is listed at 0.625 for input and 3.125 for output.
Use Nemotron 3 Ultra as a practical agent and coding specialist. It offers a useful balance of capability, context, and operating cost for connected workflows.
Assessed September 7, 2026
Editorial notes
Nemotron 3 Ultra pairs strong agentic performance with capable coding, a 262K context, and tool calling at moderate listed pricing, making it a practical choice for connected workflows.
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DFO Verdict
Nemotron 3 Ultra pairs strong agentic performance with capable coding, a 262K context, and tool calling at moderate listed pricing, making it a practical choice for connected workflows.
Benchmarks
Artificial Analysis data refreshed Oct 14, 2026. Arena ratings from the Oct 13, 2026 text leaderboard, with style control. Bars: magenta = reasoning, ink = coding and agents, cyan = instructions and long context.
Artificial Analysis no longer lists this model, so its indexes are converted from their older scale to stay comparable.
How NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Ultra compares
NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Ultra ranks #78 of 437 AI models we track for overall intelligence, #95 of 198 for coding, #26 of 181 for agentic tasks. Its 262K-token context window is larger than 75% of the models we list. At $0.60 per million input tokens it is cheaper than 32% of comparable models.
Dark bar = input · light bar = output, scaled to the priciest peer.
1M tokens ≈ 8 full-length novels or ~2,500 pages of business documents in a single request.
Pricing
| Token Type | Cost per 1M tokens | Cost per 1K tokens |
|---|---|---|
| Input | $0.60 | $0.000600 |
| Output | $2.40 | $0.002400 |
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Talk to our teamAbout NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Ultra
NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra is an open frontier-reasoning and orchestration model from NVIDIA, with 55B active parameters out of 550B total (MoE). Built on a hybrid Transformer-Mamba mixture-of-experts architecture, it..
Frequently asked questions about NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Ultra
How much does NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Ultra cost?
NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Ultra costs $0.60 per million input tokens and $2.40 per million output tokens.
What is the context window of NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Ultra?
NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Ultra has a context window of 262,144 tokens (262K).
Is NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Ultra good for coding?
On our coding benchmark index, NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Ultra ranks #95 of 198 models, placing it in the broader range of the field for code generation and debugging.
What can NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Ultra do?
NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Ultra supports tool use and function calling.
Who created NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Ultra?
NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Ultra is developed by NVIDIA and was released on June 4, 2026.