How much does Nemotron 3 Ultra cost per million tokens?

Nemotron 3 Ultra costs $0.6 per million input tokens and $2.40 per million output tokens at list price, and $0.12 per million cached input tokens.

What is the context window of Nemotron 3 Ultra?

Nemotron 3 Ultra accepts up to 262,144 tokens of context and returns up to 182,520 output tokens.

How much do 1,000 chat messages cost with Nemotron 3 Ultra?

About $1.80, assuming 1,000 input + 500 output tokens per message.

Is there a cheaper alternative to Nemotron 3 Ultra?

In the same price range, OpenAI GPT-6 Luna Pro ($0.1 / $0.5), OpenAI GPT-6 Luna ($0.1 / $0.5), Qwen Qwen3.8 Omni Flash ($0.15 / $0.47) cost less per token. Quality differs: test on your own prompts.

Where can I buy NVIDIA API credits for less?

Discount credit books resell OpenRouter usage below face value within their depth, OpenRouter adds a 5.5% card fee, and NVIDIA sells its own credits at face value. The live table on this page ranks them for $100 of usage.

NVIDIA · live price

Nemotron 3 Ultra API pricing

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...

Mid-range ($1–5 per 1M)Tool callingReasoning

Input: $0.6; per 1M tokens
Output: $2.40; per 1M tokens
Cached input: $0.12; per 1M tokens
Context: 262K; 183K max output

List price from OpenRouter, which passes NVIDIA's price through without markup. Refreshed hourly. Released June 4, 2026. Model id nvidia/nemotron-3-ultra-550b-a55b.

What Nemotron 3 Ultra costs in practice

At list price, before any batch or caching discount.

1,000 chat messages

$1.80

1,000 input + 500 output tokens each

1,000 RAG questions

$6.00

8,000 input + 500 output tokens each

100 coding-agent steps

$2.28

30,000 input + 2,000 output tokens each, no caching

Nemotron 3 Ultra price history

No price change since we started tracking on 2026-10-01. We record prices daily; changes will show here.

Nemotron 3 Ultra price by host

DeepInfra serves it below list price right now. Route to it to pay less on every token.

DeepInfra$0.5 in · $2.20 out · 262K ctx · 99.9% uptime 24h
BaseTen$0.6 in · $2.40 out · 203K ctx · 99.8% uptime 24h
Venice$0.625 in · $3.13 out · 256K ctx · 97.9% uptime 24h

Where to buy NVIDIA credits for less

Nemotron 3 Ultra costs the same per token everywhere it's sold through OpenRouter. What changes is the price of the credits. Live quotes for $100 of usage:

#	Where you buy	You payYou pay for $100.00 of usage	vs list price	Price source
1	OrbioCardCheapest right now Credits from a discount book, plus a 5% platform fee and card processing, both included in the quote.	$85.10 incl. $2.60 card processing	-14.9%	live quote
2	smaaartCard Credits from a discount book, plus a 5% platform fee on face value. Card processing and taxes shown at checkout.	$95.00 + card processing and tax at checkout (not in this number)	-5.0%	live quote
3	Direct from the labCard Prepaid credits at face value (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google…). Taxes may apply.	$100.00 no top-up fee	list price	face value
4	OpenRouterCrypto 5% on crypto purchases. No markup on model prices.	$105.00 fees included	+5.0%	published fee
5	OpenRouterCard 5.5% on card purchases, $0.80 minimum. No markup on model prices.	$105.50 fees included	+5.5%	published fee

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Nemotron 3 Ultra cost calculator

Enter your monthly tokens to price your own usage.

Model$0.6 in / $2.40 out per 1M tokens · list price, liveInput tokens / month (millions)Output tokens / month (millions)

Usage at list price$54.00/ month

Cheaper alternatives to Nemotron 3 Ultra

Other labs' models in the same price range or the one below, cheaper per token.

Model	Input / 1M	Output / 1M	Blended 3:1	Context
OpenAI: GPT-6 Luna Pro	$0.1	$0.5	$0.2	1.1M
OpenAI: GPT-6 Luna	$0.1	$0.5	$0.2	1.1M
Qwen: Qwen3.8 Omni Flash	$0.15	$0.47	$0.23	1M
Z.ai: GLM 5.3 FlashX	$0.37	$1.25	$0.59	1.0M
DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash	$0.03	$0.5	$0.147	1.0M
Qwen: Qwen3.8 Flash	$0.15	$0.47	$0.23	1M

Other NVIDIA models

Model	Input / 1M	Output / 1M	Blended 3:1	Context
Nemotron 3.5 Content Safety	$0.2	$0.2	$0.2	131K
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning	$0.059	$0.17	$0.087	262K
Nemotron 3 Super	$0.08	$0.45	$0.172	262K
Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B	$0.05	$0.2	$0.087	262K

All NVIDIA API prices