NVIDIA: Nemotron Nano 9B V2 (free)
Review
The free tier of NVIDIA's Nemotron Nano 9B V2 offers tool use and function calling at no cost, making it accessible for experimentation, but without confirmed benchmark data for this variant it remains a limited-capability option best suited to lightweight tasks.
Assessment date: April 16, 2026
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Performance Profile
NVIDIA-Nemotron-Nano-9B-v2 is a large language model (LLM) trained from scratch by NVIDIA, and designed as a unified model for both reasoning and non-reasoning tasks. It responds to user queries and..
Capabilities
Architecture
| Modality | Text → Text |
| Tokenizer | Other |
| Parameters | 9B |
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Model Information
| OpenRouter ID |
nvidia/nemotron-nano-9b-v2:free
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| Provider | nvidia |
| Release Date | September 5, 2025 |
| Context Length | 128,000 tokens |
| Status | Active |
Live Performance
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