DeepSeek-V3 vs NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Ultra-550B-A55B-BF16

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 10 November 2026.

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

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification DeepSeek-V3 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 — other
Commercial use Unknown Unknown
Languages — 12
Downloads 30d 1,487,156 1,067,799
Downloads all time 23.5 M 2.8 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2024-12-25 2026-06-03
API input price / 1M tokens $0.32 $0.60
API output price / 1M tokens $0.89 $2.40
Est. cost per 1M input + 1M output tokens $1.21 $3.00
Cached input / 1M tokens — $0.12
AA Intelligence Index — 11.8
AA Coding Index — 49.3
AA Agentic Index — 20.1
Max output tokens 16,384 182,520
API providers 2 3
Tool calling Yes Yes
Reasoning mode No Yes

API cost

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

DeepSeek-V3 $1.21
NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Ultra-550B-A55B-BF16 $3.00

DeepSeek-V3 is 2.5× cheaper at list price.

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 90 days (13 Aug – 10 Nov)

1.7 M213 K
DeepSeek-V3 NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Ultra-550B-A55B-BF16

VRAM side by side

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

DeepSeek-V3 · 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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