Post-Cutoff

NVIDIANemotron 3 familyCurrentReasoning modelReleased 4 Jun 2026

NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra (550B-A55B)

NVIDIA’s largest open reasoning model for agentic workflows and long-context analysis.

Model idnvidia/nemotron-3-ultra-550b-a55b

Price$0.60 in, $2.40 out per 1M tokens

Checked29 September 2026

Knows up to September 2025

1,990events after its cutoff

86 historic, 455 major. 409 days of news.

It launched on 4 June 2026, already missing 168 of them. Coverage before 2026 is thin (80 entries for 2025), so this count is a floor.

Five things it has never heard of

Its cutoff, September 2025, is before this chart starts: every mark here is news it has never seen.

How to call it

3 ways to use NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra (550B-A55B), with the model id each provider expects.

Providers, model ids, endpoints and docs for NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra (550B-A55B)
ProviderModel idEndpointDocs
NVIDIA API (build.nvidia.com) nvidia/nemotron-3-ultra-550b-a55b https://integrate.api.nvidia.com/v1/chat/completions build.nvidia.com
OpenRouter nvidia/nemotron-3-ultra-550b-a55b openrouter.ai
Hugging Face huggingface.co

Pricing

Prices for NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra (550B-A55B)
Input$0.60 per 1M tokens
Output$2.40 per 1M tokens

As published: “per 1M tokens (USD) on OpenRouter (262K context there); NVIDIA hosted pricing not verified”.

Source: openrouter.ai, checked 29 September 2026.

Specs

Input
Text
Output
Text
Context window
1,000,000 tokens
Max output
Not published
Open weights
Yes
Licence
OpenMDW-1.1
Training cutoff
September 2025
Released
4 June 2026
Status
Current
Type
Reasoning model

What stands out

What its maker marketed at launch, and what people found later, each with its source.

  • Hybrid Mamba-2 / LatentMoE at frontier scale

    550B total / 55B active; interleaved Mamba-2 and LatentMoE layers with select attention, plus multi-token prediction for faster generation.

    Source: huggingface.co

  • NVFP4 pretraining and weights

    Pre-trained with an NVFP4 recipe; weights published in both BF16 and NVFP4 under the permissive OpenMDW-1.1 license.

    Source: huggingface.co

  • Reasoning on / off / medium

    enable_thinking toggle in the chat template plus a medium-effort mode to cut reasoning tokens.

    Source: huggingface.co

Four assistants, one scale

NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra (550B-A55B) is added as a fifth row. Each row runs from what the model knows (graphite) through the months between its cutoff and its launch (hatched) to today (pink).

  1. GPT-6 Astra 271 at launch, 1,863 today
  2. Claude Opus 5.5 372 at launch, 1,795 today
  3. Gemini 4 Hydrogen 1,863 at launch, 1,889 today
  4. Grok 4.7 387 at launch, 1,829 today
  5. NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra (550B-A55B) 168 at launch, 1,990 today
Show as a table
ModelCutoffReleasedMissing at launchMissing today
GPT-6 AstraApril 20263 September 20262711,863
Claude Opus 5.5June 202622 September 20263721,795
Gemini 4 HydrogenMarch 202612 November 20261,8631,889
Grok 4.7May 202621 September 20263871,829
NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra (550B-A55B)September 20254 June 20261681,990

Notes

Knowledge cutoff = pre-training data (Sep 2025); post-training data to May 2026. NVFP4 repo nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Ultra-550B-A55B-NVFP4.

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

Sources: https://huggingface.co/nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Ultra-550B-A55B-BF16 , https://integrate.api.nvidia.com/v1/models