# Nvidia Nemotron Ultra

8 Hacker News commenters recommended Nvidia Nemotron Ultra and 0 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 3 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** Free open-weight Nvidia model that people find fast and competitive with top models, though one critic found it often down on OpenRouter.

## Why people recommend it

- Competitive with top models (3 comments): "the Nemotron models from nVidia are quite real. Including a Nemotron Ultra variety meant to be large enough for near-SOTA." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48513808)) "Nemotron Ultra on OpenRouter is nearly as good, but it's down a LOT" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48748480)) "Nemotron Ultra is extremely competitive." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48788825))
- Large open-weight model (2 comments): "the Nemotron models from nVidia are quite real. Including a Nemotron Ultra variety meant to be large enough for near-SOTA." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48513808)) "there's also the recently released 550b Ultra now" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48623127))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [Qwen 3.8 27B](https://hackerapproved.com/p/qwen-3-8-27b.md): 1173 recommend
- [Z.ai GLM](https://hackerapproved.com/p/glm-5-2.md): 1043 recommend
- [Kimi](https://hackerapproved.com/p/kimi-k3.md): 931 recommend
- [Gemma 4](https://hackerapproved.com/p/gemma-4.md): 713 recommend
- [Qwen](https://hackerapproved.com/p/qwen.md): 474 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Nvidia Nemotron Ultra", https://hackerapproved.com/p/nemotron-ultra/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).