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.
Benchmark scores
Magenta = intelligence · Ink = technical/agentic · Cyan = content & long-context · Grey = community benchmarks. Data: Artificial Analysis, Hugging Face.
37.8 Intelligence Index·49.3 Coding Index·59.8 Agentic Index
How NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Ultra compares
NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Ultra ranks #45 of 437 AI models we track for overall intelligence, #76 of 209 for coding, #4 of 191 for agentic tasks. Its 262K-token context window is larger than 71% of the models we list. At $0.63 per million input tokens it is cheaper than 34% 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.
Strongest on business fit. The pulled-in intelligence corner is the trade-off, and if the shape matters more than the price, this is your model.
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| Token Type | Cost per 1M tokens | Cost per 1K tokens |
|---|---|---|
| Input | $0.63 | $0.000625 |
| Output | $3.13 | $0.003125 |
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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..
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Frequently asked questions about NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Ultra
How much does NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Ultra cost?
NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Ultra costs $0.63 per million input tokens and $3.13 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 #76 of 209 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.
Data sourced from the OpenRouter API, Artificial Analysis, the Hugging Face Open LLM Leaderboard and our own internal testing. Scores are editorially curated by our team.
Last updated: September 12, 2026 8:38 pm