Nemotron 3 Ultra
by NVIDIA · nvidia/nemotron-3-ultra-550b-a55b · #203 cheapest of 325 paid models
Prices updated Jul 22, 2026, 1:31 AM UTC · refreshed hourly
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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Pricing
Input
$0.60
per 1M tokens
Output
$3.60
per 1M tokens
Blended (3:1)
$1.35
3 input : 1 output
Cache read
$0.20
per 1M cached tokens
Cache write
—
per 1M tokens
Cache & batch economics
Effective prices for Nemotron 3 Ultra with prompt caching.
| Cache hit rate | Effective blended $/1M | Example request* | vs no cache |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0% | $1.35 | $0.0648 | — |
| 50% | $1.20 | $0.0448 | −31% |
| 90% | $1.08 | $0.0288 | −56% |
*Example: 100K sticky context + 2K new input + 1K output. Batch discount is an approximate 50% off list rates (available for OpenAI / Anthropic / Google — not flagged for this creator). Confirm on the vendor’s pricing page.
What a request costs
| Workload | Input tokens | Output tokens | Cost / request | Cost / 1K requests |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Short chat message | 500 | 300 | $0.00138 | $1.38 |
| Document summary | 8,000 | 1,000 | $0.0084 | $8.40 |
| Codebase question (RAG) | 30,000 | 2,000 | $0.0252 | $25.20 |
| Long-context analysis | 150,000 | 5,000 | $0.108 | $108.00 |
Performance
Intelligence Index
37.8
AA composite quality
Coding Index
49.3
Math Index
—
Agentic Index
27.4
Output speed
—
median
Time to first token
—
median
Time to first answer
—
after reasoning tokens
Design Arena Elo
| Category | Elo |
|---|---|
| Website | 1,127 |
| UI components | 1,182 |
| Data viz | 1,148 |
| SVG | 1,127 |
| 3D | 1,190 |
| Game dev | 1,186 |
| Code categories | 1,156 |
| ASCII art | 1,118 |
Specs
Context window
512K
tokens
Max output
—
tokens
Input modalities
text
Tokenizer
Other