NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Ultra
Analysis Summary
NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra is a strong mid-tier model with a coding index approaching the top tier and an agentic index that competes with models well above its price point. It supports tool use, function calling, and a 1M token context window, making it a capable choice for agentic pipelines and long-context workloads. Instruction following is a particular strength, with one of the higher ifbench scores in this batch.
For businesses, it is well-suited to software engineering assistance, multi-step tool-use workflows, and long-document processing. The lack of vision support is a limitation for teams needing multimodal capability, but for text-only agentic and coding tasks it punches above its price.
At $0.50 input and $2.20 output per million tokens, it offers strong price-performance for production use. Teams running high-volume agentic or coding workloads who do not need vision should consider it as a cost-efficient alternative to pricier flagship models.
Assessed June 30, 2026
Editorial notes
NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra delivers strong coding and agentic performance with a 1M context window, tool use, and competitive pricing at $0.50 input per million tokens.
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How NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Ultra compares
NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Ultra ranks #42 of 385 AI models we track for overall intelligence, #34 of 129 for coding, #63 of 293 for agentic tasks. Its 1M-token context window is larger than 91% of the models we list. At $0.50 per million input tokens it is cheaper than 35% of comparable models.
About 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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Model Information
| OpenRouter ID |
nvidia/nemotron-3-ultra-550b-a55b
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| Provider | nvidia |
| Release Date | June 4, 2026 |
| Context Length | 1,000,000 tokens |
| Max Completion | 16,384 tokens |
| Status | Active |
Pricing
| Token Type | Cost per 1M tokens | Cost per 1K tokens |
|---|---|---|
| Input | $0.50 | $0.000500 |
| Output | $2.20 | $0.002200 |
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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 $0.50 per million input tokens and $2.20 per million output tokens.
What is the context window of NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Ultra?
NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Ultra has a context window of 1,000,000 tokens (1M).
Is NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Ultra good for coding?
On our coding benchmark index, NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Ultra ranks #34 of 129 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.
