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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). This model is free to use. 1,000,000 token context window, maximum output of 65,536 tokens. Higher uptime with 5 providers. Includes independent benchmarks from Artificial Analysis.

Overview

Model specifications

Context
1,000,000 tokens
Maximum output
65,536 tokens
Architecture
text->text
Tokenizer
Other
Knowledge cutoff
Not provided
Moderated
No
OPENROUTER

Complete pricing

Synchronized OpenRouter rates. Token prices are shown per one million tokens.

Input
Free
/M tokens
Output
Free
/M tokens
API

Model configuration

Default parameters

temperature
1
top_p
0.95

Reasoning

Moderated
No
Default parameters
high
Capabilities
high, medium
API

Quick start

Call this exact model ID through OpenRouter’s OpenAI-compatible API.

curl https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OPENROUTER_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"model":"nvidia/nemotron-3-ultra-550b-a55b:free","messages":[{"role":"user","content":"Hello!"}]}'
Capabilities

InputOutput

Input
text
Output
text
Reasoning

Yes · high · medium

API

Supported API parameters

include_reasoningmax_tokensreasoningreasoning_effortseedtemperaturetool_choicetoolstop_p
Available providers

3 providers

Live providers on OpenRouter

Provider availability, latency, throughput and routing can change continuously. Open the source page for current operational data.

OpenRouter

DeepInfra

fp4
Context
262K
Maximum output
16K
Input
$0.500
Output
$2.20
Cache read
$0.100
Cache write
Not provided

BaseTen

fp4
Context
203K
Maximum output
183K
Input
$0.600
Output
$2.40
Cache read
$0.120
Cache write
Not provided

Venice

fp8
Context
256K
Maximum output
33K
Input
$0.625
Output
$3.13
Cache read
$0.188
Cache write
Not provided
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