NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Ultra

by NVIDIA

nvidia/nemotron-3-ultra-550b-a55b
HealthyRank #16Down 9 places on last weekOpen weights

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...

Context

262Ktokens

About 374 pages of text at once

Max output

183Ktokens

About 261 pages in one answer

Intelligence

11.8/ 100

Above 16% of the catalogue

Output speed

69tokens/s

A 500-word answer in about 10.1 s

From public market statistics for this model

First token

1.3s

Reasoning models start later

From public market statistics for this model

Health, 30 days

99.97%

25 of 30 days without a fault

IranRouter’s measurements

Price & cost

Every rate in Rial. A request pays only for the tokens it actually uses.

Input1,644,596IRR / 1M tokens
Output6,578,383IRR / 1M tokens
Reasoning tokensThe output rate6,578,383IRR / 1M tokens
Cache read328,919IRR / 1M tokens

With prompt caching, the fixed part of your prompt is billed at the cache-read rate on later requests.

What would this model cost you a month?

Monthly cost

266.42MIRR

8.88M IRR a day, 4,440 IRR each request

The same work on peer models

30 days at today’s rate.

Rial price over 90 days

It moves with the exchange rate; the steps are the maker’s own price changes. Built at today’s margin, so approximate if the margin changed in the window.

InputOutput

Performance, 30 days

Health is measured by IranRouter itself: a day counts as healthy unless requests to this model failed on our side or it could not be served. First token and speed come from IranRouter’s traffic, and from public market statistics for this model on days without enough of it.

Daily health99.97%

Time to first token1.61 s

Output speed64 tokens/s

Place in the market

By usage across the global model market.

Daily rank#16

Share of the day’s tokens1.4%

Among its peers

Cost of one message against intelligence; this model is highlighted.

Cost of one message, IRR (log scale)

Capabilities

Image inputNo
Audio inputNo
Tool callingYes
JSON outputYes
ReasoningReasoning levels: high, medium, none
Web searchNo
Prompt cacheYes
Makes imagesNo
Open weightsYes
On the free planNo
Input
Text
Output
Text

Parameters it accepts

frequency_penaltyinclude_reasoninglogit_biasmax_tokensmin_ppresence_penaltyreasoningreasoning_effortrepetition_penaltyresponse_formatseedstopstructured_outputstemperaturetool_choicetoolstop_ktop_p

Other benchmarks

Intelligence index12
Coding index49
Agentic index20

Design contests

  • Code (overall)Elo: 1,145Win rate: 36%
  • WebsitesElo: 1,145Win rate: 35%
  • Data vizElo: 1,143Win rate: 38%
  • Game devElo: 1,139Win rate: 36%
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  • UI componentsElo: 1,135Win rate: 36%
  • 3DElo: 1,127Win rate: 38%
  • ASCII artElo: 1,098Win rate: 37%
  • SVGElo: 1,068Win rate: 32%

Standard tests

  • GPQA DiamondScore: 81%Tasks: 172
  • τ-bench Verified AirlineScore: 72%Tasks: 50

Start in a minute

The official OpenAI and Anthropic SDKs; only the address and the key change.

Base URLhttps://iranrouter.com/v1
Model IDnvidia/nemotron-3-ultra-550b-a55b
# pip install openai
from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    base_url="https://iranrouter.com/v1",
    api_key="ir-...",
)

r = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="nvidia/nemotron-3-ultra-550b-a55b",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello, introduce yourself"}],
)
print(r.choices[0].message.content)
The full guide in the docs: keys, streaming and errors

Peer models

Its family and models with a close score; the last column compares one message’s cost with this model.

ModelAgainst this model
Google: Gemini 3.5 Flash LiteGoogle5,06911.71321M23% cheaper
Meta: Muse Glimmer 30BMeta3,2886.381131K50% cheaper
MoonshotAI: Kimi K3Moonshot AI21,60217.4631M228% dearer
NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 LightningNVIDIA6585.5108262K90% cheaper
MiniMax: MiniMax M3Minimax3,28818.7871M50% cheaper

Technical specs

ID
nvidia/nemotron-3-ultra-550b-a55b
Maker
NVIDIA
Tokenizer
Other
Released
Jun 4, 2026
Added to IranRouter
Aug 7, 2026
Context
262,144 tokens
Max output
182,520 tokens
Weights
nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Ultra-550B-A55B-BF16

Default parameters

top_p=0.95temperature=1

Scores by Artificial Analysis, Design Arena, as of Oct 31, 2026

NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 UltraOne message about 6,580 IRRStart with this model