NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Ultra-550B-A55B-BF16 vs Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct
Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 24 October 2026.
nvidia · A · Open weights
Params
560.5 B
Context
262,144
30d
1.1 M
Qwen · B · Open weights
Params
480.2 B
Context
262,144
30d
54 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
Specification comparison
Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.
| Specification | NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Ultra-550B-A55B-BF16 | Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Deployment | Open weights · also via API | Open weights · also via API |
| Parameters | 560.5 B | 480.2 B |
| Architecture | NemotronHForCausalLM | Qwen3MoeForCausalLM |
| Context length | 262,144 | 262,144 |
| Licence | other | apache-2.0 |
| Commercial use | Unknown | Allowed |
| Languages | 12 | — |
| Downloads 30d | 1,067,855 | 54,127 |
| Downloads all time | 2.1 M | 1.2 M |
| Quantizations on the Hub | SAFETENSORS | SAFETENSORS |
| Gated | No | No |
| First seen on the Hub | 2026-06-03 | 2025-07-22 |
| API input price / 1M tokens | $0.60 | $0.30 |
| API output price / 1M tokens | $2.40 | $1.00 |
| Est. cost per 1M input + 1M output tokens | $3.00 | $1.30 |
| Cached input / 1M tokens | $0.12 | $0.10 |
| AA Intelligence Index | 22.9 | 11.9 |
| AA Coding Index | 49.3 | — |
| AA Agentic Index | 20.1 | — |
| Max output tokens | 182,520 | 65,536 |
| API providers | 3 | 3 |
| Tool calling | Yes | Yes |
| Reasoning mode | Yes | No |
API cost
Estimated cost of 1M input + 1M output tokens via OpenRouter
NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Ultra-550B-A55B-BF16
$3.00
Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct
$1.30
Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct is 2.3× cheaper at list price.
Download trend
Daily snapshots, last 89 days (28 Jul – 24 Oct)
1.1 M42 K
NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Ultra-550B-A55B-BF16
Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct · fp16 @ 256K ctx
3,361.6 GB / 24 GB
NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Ultra-550B-A55B-BF16 · fp16 @ 256K ctx
3,924.2 GB / 24 GB
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