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NVIDIA · Nemotron 3

Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B A55B

Open weightsGenerally availableOpenMDW-1.1

NVIDIA's open-weight (weights, data and recipes) hybrid Mamba-Transformer LatentMoE flagship for agentic, reasoning and long-context workloads.

AA Intelligence
22.9#61 of 142
Input / output per 1M
$0.60/ $2.50
Output speed
140tok/s
Context window
1M tokens

Composite indexes

  • Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index#61 of 142
    23independentIntelligence Index v4.3; reasoningArtificial Analysis: Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B A55B (Reasoning) ↗

    Leader: Claude Opus 5.5 at 58

Coding

  • SciCode#68 of 94
    44.6%vendorsubtaskNVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra model card ↗
    40.3%independentreasoningArtificial Analysis: Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B A55B (Reasoning) ↗

    Leader: Claude Opus 5.5 at 66.9%

  • Terminal-Bench 4.0#55 of 88
    0.5%independentreasoningArtificial Analysis: Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B A55B (Reasoning) ↗

    Leader: Claude Mythos 5.1 at 60.9%

  • Terminal-Bench 2.x#57 of 103
    56.4%vendorTerminal-Bench 2.1NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra model card ↗
    53.9%independentTerminal-Bench 2.1; reasoningArtificial Analysis: Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B A55B (Reasoning) ↗

    Leader: Claude Fable 5.1 at 91.4%

  • SWE-bench Verified#9 of 16
    70.7%vendorNVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra model card ↗

    Leader: Claude Sonnet 5 at 85.2%

  • LiveCodeBench#4 of 56
    89%vendorv6NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra model card ↗

    Leader: Fugu at 92.9%

Agents and tool use

  • τ²-Bench#30 of 88
    83.3%independenttelecom; reasoningArtificial Analysis: Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B A55B (Reasoning) ↗

    Leader: GLM-5.2 at 99.1%

  • GDPval-AA#52 of 103
    1000independentreasoningArtificial Analysis: Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B A55B (Reasoning) ↗

    Leader: Claude Opus 5.5 at 1846

  • BrowseComp#11 of 14
    44.4%vendorNVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra model card ↗

    Leader: GPT-6 Astra at 91.5%

Reasoning and knowledge

  • GPQA Diamond#51 of 142
    87%vendorno toolsNVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra model card ↗
    86.7%independentreasoningArtificial Analysis: Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B A55B (Reasoning) ↗

    Leader: GPT-6 Astra at 96.1%

  • Humanity’s Last Exam#58 of 147
    37.4%vendorwith toolsNVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra model card ↗
    28.4%independentno tools; reasoningArtificial Analysis: Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B A55B (Reasoning) ↗
    26.7%vendorno toolsNVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra model card ↗

    Leader: Claude Opus 5.5 at 61.4%

  • CritPt#57 of 139
    3.1%independentreasoningArtificial Analysis: Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B A55B (Reasoning) ↗
    3.1%vendorno toolsNVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra model card ↗

    Leader: GPT-5.6 Sol at 32.3%

  • MMLU-Pro#1 of 14
    86.8%vendorNVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra model card ↗

    Leader: Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B A55B at 86.8%

Vision and long context

  • AA Long Context Reasoning#40 of 139
    79.3%independentreasoningArtificial Analysis: Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B A55B (Reasoning) ↗
    65.4%vendorNVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra model card ↗

    Leader: Kimi K3 at 88.7%

Other published results

ResultScoreReported bySource
Terminal-Bench Hard (AA) · reasoning36.4%independentArtificial Analysis: Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B A55B (Reasoning) ↗
IFBench · reasoning81.4%independentArtificial Analysis: Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B A55B (Reasoning) ↗
tau2-Bench Banking (AA) · reasoning14.2%independentArtificial Analysis: Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B A55B (Reasoning) ↗
AA-Omniscience Index · reasoning-0.4 indexindependentArtificial Analysis: Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B A55B (Reasoning) ↗
AA Analyst Agent · reasoning6.2%independentArtificial Analysis: Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B A55B (Reasoning) ↗
tau3-Bench average · airline/retail/telecom/banking70.9%vendorNVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra model card ↗
tau3-Bench Telecom92.9%vendorNVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra model card ↗
SWE-bench Multilingual67.7%vendorNVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra model card ↗
IFBench · prompt loose81.7%vendorNVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra model card ↗
RULER · 1M94.7%vendorNVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra model card ↗
IMOAnswerBench · no tools88.6%vendorNVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra model card ↗
PinchBench90%vendorNVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra model card ↗

Specs

Released
June 4, 2026
Parameters
550B total, 55B active
Size class
500B to 1T
Input
text
Output
text
Context
1M tokens
Max output
Not published
Cached input
$0.16 / 1M
Blended 70/30
$1.17 / 1M
First token
2.21s
  • Price: Artificial Analysis model page ↗ No first-party paid NVIDIA API (build.nvidia.com is a free trial endpoint). Value is the Artificial Analysis median across third-party API providers.
  • Speed: Artificial Analysis leaderboard (Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B A55B (Reasoning), median across providers or first-party as shown) ↗

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