NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Ultra (free)
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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Starter is free forever — 1 Space, 100 credits/month, 1 MCP. No card.
Verdict
Best for
- Long-document analysis on tight budgets
- Processing large codebases without token limits
- High-volume experimentation with zero cost
- Multi-turn conversations requiring deep context
- Prototyping before committing to paid models
Strengths
The 1M-token context window handles entire repositories, legal briefs, or multi-chapter manuscripts in a single pass. Zero pricing removes the usual calculus around token optimization—you can throw context at it without watching the meter. NVIDIA's infrastructure backing suggests reliable uptime and throughput, useful for teams running batch jobs or continuous workflows where cost predictability matters more than bleeding-edge reasoning.
Trade-offs
No public benchmarks means you can't compare reasoning quality, instruction-following, or factual accuracy against established models like GPT-4o or Claude Sonnet. Early NVIDIA LLMs have lagged behind Anthropic and OpenAI on complex reasoning tasks in third-party evals. The free tier likely comes with rate limits or throttling during peak demand, though specifics aren't published. You'll need to run your own validation suite before trusting it for production use cases where accuracy is non-negotiable.
Specifications
- Provider
- nvidia
- Category
- llm
- Context length
- 1,000,000 tokens
- Max output
- 65,536 tokens
- Modalities
- text
- License
- proprietary
- Released
- 2026-06-04
Pricing
- Input
- $0.00/Mtok
- Output
- $0.00/Mtok
- Model ID
nvidia/nemotron-3-ultra-550b-a55b:free
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5 seats · 80 msgs/day
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Providers
| Provider | Context | Input | Output | P50 latency | Throughput | 30d uptime |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| nvidia | 1000k | $0.00/Mtok | $0.00/Mtok | — | — | — |
Performance
Benchmarks
Works well with
Top MCPs
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