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Nvidia Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B
Nvidia's Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B A55B model from the Nemotron 3 family. It uses a hybrid Mamba-Transformer MoE architecture. Provider-specific context limits vary, with the longest current route supporting up to 1M context.
- Reasoning
- Tools
- Parallel tools
- Input
- Text
- Output
- Text
- Discovery tier
- Open weights
Pricing
USD per 1M tokens- Input
- $0.50
- Output
- $2.50
Reference prices as published by the model provider. API example
Specifications
- Context window
- 1M
- Max output
- 65.5K
- Average output (7 days)
- 56 tokens
- Longer than 5% of 468 models
Side by side
Nvidia Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B compared
Specifications, prices, speed and benchmark scores next to each other. Benchmarks below show every compared model too.
| Nvidia Nemotron 3 Ultra 550BnvidiaThis model | Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 LightningnvidiaRemove | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | nvidia | nvidia |
| Discovery tier | Open weights | Open weights |
| Added | Jun 4, 2026 | Aug 12, 2026 |
| Limits | ||
| Context window | 1M | 1M |
| Max output | 65.54K | 65.54K |
| Average output | 56 tokens | 228 tokens |
| Pricing, USD per 1M tokens | ||
| Input | $0.50 | $0.05Best |
| Output | $2.50 | $0.20Best |
| Cache read | — | $0.01 |
| Performance | ||
| Throughput | 111.9 tok/s | 536.8 tok/sBest |
| Time to first token | 1.5 s | 0.9 sBest |
| Request success (24h) | 100.0% | 100.0% |
| Benchmark indexes | ||
| Intelligence Index | 22.9Best | 12.9 |
| Coding Index | 49.3Best | 26.8 |
| Capabilities | ||
| Reasoning | Yes | Yes |
| Tools | Yes | Yes |
| Parallel tools | Yes | Yes |
| Reasoning effort | — | none, high |
Public evaluations
Benchmarks
Independent evaluation results, with how each score ranks among the models in the Noumen catalog.
- Nvidia Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B
- Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Lightning
Intelligence Index
- Nvidia Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B22.9
- Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Lightning12.9
Nvidia Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B: Better than 56% of 326 scored models
Indexes
Coding Index
Composite of the coding evaluations
- Nvidia Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B: 49.3Top
- Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: 26.8
Agentic work
AutomationBench-AA
Workflow automation, penalized for guardrail violations
- Nvidia Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B: 3.0%Top
- Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: 0.8%
AutomationBench-AA tasks completed
Workflows finished end to end without a guardrail violation
- Nvidia Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B: 0.3%Top
- Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: 0.0%
AA-Briefcasev1.1
Agentic knowledge work, rated head to head
- Nvidia Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B: 876 EloTop
- Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: 506 Elo
GDPval-AAv2.1
Economically valuable occupational tasks, rated head to head
- Nvidia Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B: 1,013 EloTop
- Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: 638 Elo
Document reasoning
GDP.pdf
Professional reasoning over PDF documents, all-pass rate
- Nvidia Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B: 5.0%Top
- Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: 3.0%
AA-LCRv1.1
Reasoning across long documents
- Nvidia Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B: 79.3%Top
- Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: 60.3%
MLCR-AA
Long-context reasoning over medical records
- Nvidia Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B: 5.6%Top
- Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: 2.2%
Reasoning and knowledge
Humanity’s Last Exam
Expert-level questions across academic fields
- Nvidia Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B: 28.4%Top
- Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: 10.6%
GPQA Diamond
Graduate-level science questions
- Nvidia Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B: 86.7%Top
- Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: 74.3%
IFBench
Following precise output instructions
- Nvidia Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B: 81.4%
- Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: —
Coding
Terminal-Benchv4.0
Practical software engineering in a terminal
- Nvidia Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B: 0.5%Top
- Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: 0.5%Top
SciCode
Scientific computing in Python
- Nvidia Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B: 40.3%Top
- Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: 32.1%
Legacy evaluations
Terminal-Bench Hard
Earlier terminal task suite
- Nvidia Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B: 36.4%
- Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: —
τ²-Bench Telecom
Tool use in a customer-support simulation
- Nvidia Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B: 83.3%
- Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: —
AA-LCR (unversioned)
Long-context reasoning, earlier grading
- Nvidia Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B: 79.3%Top
- Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: 60.3%
Scores from Artificial Analysis, updated Oct 26, 2026. Artificial Analysis
Live routing data
Performance and reliability
Recent averages across requests routed for this model. Your own speed depends on prompt length, reasoning effort and load.
- Throughput
- 111.9 tok/s
- Faster than 66% of 254 models
- Time to first token
- 1.5 s
- Quicker than 89% of 254 models
- Prompt cache hits
- 11.7%
- Request success (24h)
- 100.0%
- Reliable
Cache hits are the share of input tokens recently served from a prompt cache across all requests. They are not a forecast of your own hit rate.
- Healthy (98% or more)
- Degraded (90–98%)
- Down (under 90%)
- No requests
Developers
Use it through the API
Noumen’s API is OpenAI-compatible: any Chat Completions client works with a base URL and a key.
curl https://www.noumen.xyz/api/v1/chat/completions \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $NOUMEN_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"model": "nvidia/nemotron-3-ultra-550b-a55b",
"messages": [{ "role": "user", "content": "Explain this stack trace." }]
}'import os
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(base_url="https://www.noumen.xyz/api/v1", api_key=os.environ["NOUMEN_API_KEY"])
reply = client.chat.completions.create(
model="nvidia/nemotron-3-ultra-550b-a55b",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Explain this stack trace."}],
)
print(reply.choices[0].message.content)nvidia
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