| Provider | NVIDIA |
|---|---|
| Model ID | nvidia/nemotron-3-ultra-550b-a55b:free |
| Prompt Price per 1M tokens | $0 |
| Completion Price per 1M tokens | $0 |
| Sample Workload Cost 1M input + 500K output | $0 |
| Context Window | 1M |
| Release Date | |
| Popularity | #12 |
| Popularity Signal | 118.6B tokens |
New🔥Nemotron 3 Ultra (free)
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Nemotron 3 Ultra (free) is estimated at $0 for the standard workload.
Nemotron 3 Ultra (free) is best suited for long-context workloads. A 1M input token plus 500K output token workload is estimated at $0.
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| DeepSeek V4 Flash (free) | DeepSeek | $0 | 1.05M | More context while staying near this model's sample-cost band. | Open model Compare |
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...
Nemotron 3 Ultra (free) is best suited for long-context workloads.
A 1M input token plus 500K output token workload is estimated at $0.
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