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NVIDIA · Released Apr 7, 2025

Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253B

Flagship Nemotron model for high-throughput reasoning and complex agents.

  • Open weights
  • Reasoning
  • Tool calling
Capability
—No ECI score yet
Input
Freeper 1M tokens
Output
Freeper 1M tokens
Context
128K8K max output
Pricing

What it costs

Input
Freeper million tokens
Output
Freeper million tokens

Listed as free on Nvidia’s own API.

Capability

Independent benchmarks

Epoch AI has not published a Capabilities Index score for Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253B yet.

Specifications

The details

Lab
NVIDIA
Released
Apr 7, 2025
Context window
128,000 tokens
Max output
8,192 tokens
Inputs
Text
Output
Text
Reasoning
Can be switched on or off
Tool calling
Yes
Structured output
No
Weights
Open weights
API model ID
nvidia/llama-3.1-nemotron-ultra-253b-v1on Nvidia
Availability
1 API providerlisted on models.dev

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Questions

About Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253B

How much does Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253B cost?

Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253B is listed as free on Nvidia.

What is the context window of Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253B?

Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253B accepts up to 128,000 tokens per request and can write up to 8,192 tokens in one response.

How good is Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253B?

Epoch AI has not published a Capabilities Index score for Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253B yet.

Is Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253B open source?

Yes. NVIDIA publishes the weights, so it can be downloaded and self-hosted.

What inputs does Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253B support?

Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253B accepts text and replies in text. It is a reasoning model, supports tool calling.

When was Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253B released?

NVIDIA released Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253B on Apr 7, 2025.

What are the best alternatives to Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253B?

The closest current models from other labs on capability, price and release date are GLM-4.5-Flash (Z.ai (Zhipu), Free / Free), Nova 2 Pro (Amazon, Free / Free), Laguna M.1 (Poolside, Free / Free) and Aya Vision 32B (Cohere).