DeepSeek-R1 vs NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Ultra-550B-A55B-BF16

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 24 October 2026.

deepseek-ai · A · Open weights
Params
684.5 B
Context
163,840
30d
1.4 M
mit · commercial OK
nvidia · B · Open weights
Params
560.5 B
Context
262,144
30d
1.1 M

Specification comparison

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Specification DeepSeek-R1 NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Ultra-550B-A55B-BF16
Deployment Open weights · also via API Open weights · also via API
Parameters 684.5 B 560.5 B
Architecture DeepseekV3ForCausalLM NemotronHForCausalLM
Context length 163,840 262,144
Licence mit other
Commercial use Allowed Unknown
Languages — 12
Downloads 30d 1,391,551 1,067,855
Downloads all time 50.3 M 2.1 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2025-01-20 2026-06-03
API input price / 1M tokens $0.70 $0.60
API output price / 1M tokens $2.50 $2.40
Est. cost per 1M input + 1M output tokens $3.20 $3.00
Cached input / 1M tokens — $0.12
AA Intelligence Index 11.4 22.9
AA Coding Index 24.6 49.3
AA Agentic Index 1.1 20.1
Max output tokens 16,000 182,520
API providers — 3
Tool calling Yes Yes
Reasoning mode Yes Yes

API cost

Estimated cost of 1M input + 1M output tokens via OpenRouter

DeepSeek-R1 $3.20
NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Ultra-550B-A55B-BF16 $3.00

NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Ultra-550B-A55B-BF16 is 1.1× cheaper at list price.

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 89 days (28 Jul – 24 Oct)

9.9 M213 K
DeepSeek-R1 NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Ultra-550B-A55B-BF16

VRAM side by side

On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted

DeepSeek-R1 · fp16 @ 160K ctx 2,811.5 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit
NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Ultra-550B-A55B-BF16 · fp16 @ 256K ctx 3,924.2 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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