Nemotron 3 Ultra vs Nemotron 3.5 Lightning

Best cell per row highlighted. Null means undisclosed — never counted as zero.

NVIDIA
Nemotron 3 UltraGA
8.5
AI Panel
NVIDIA
Nemotron 3.5 LightningGA
7.8
AI Panel

Identity & lifecycle

ProviderNVIDIANVIDIA
Family / tierNemotron 3 · UltraNemotron 3 · Lightning
StatusGAGA
Released2026-06-042026-08-11
Knowledge cutoff2025-092025-09

Architecture & context

Context window1M1.0M
Max output tokens——
Input modalitiestexttext
Reasoning modeoptionaloptional
Open weightsYesYes

Pricing (per Mtok)

Input——
Output——
Cached input——
Batch input——
Free tierNoYes

Speed

Output speed (tok/s)——
Time to first token (s)——
Latency tiermediumfast

Trust & deployment

Trains on inputsNoNo
Licensecustom-OpenMDW-1.1custom-OpenMDW-1.1
Clouds—Amazon SageMaker JumpStart, Google Cloud Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, Microsoft Foundry, OCI Enterprise AI
Compliance——

AI Panel scoring

Unified score8.57.8
Decision Maker88
Domain Strategist8.57.5
Finance Lead88.5
Domain Practitioner8.58
Power User7.57
Skeptic87.5
Value score8.59

Benchmarks

MMLU-Pro86.881.94
GPQA Diamond8775.44
SWE-bench Verified70.751.56
LiveCodeBench89—
Terminal-Bench—24.58
Humanity's Last Exam—11.72
LMArena Elo1426—
LMArena Coding Elo1474—

Scores link to their sources. Missing cells mean the vendor hasn't disclosed a result — honesty over padding.