Nvidia Nemotron Ultra
Shares rank 33 of 39 open-weight language models by recommenders
Free open-weight Nvidia model that people find fast and competitive with top models, though one critic found it often down on OpenRouter.
Free open-weight Nvidia model that people find fast and competitive with top models, though one critic found it often down on OpenRouter.
8 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 8
- criticize it
- 0
- approval share
- 100%
Recommended in 3 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: recommended
- July 2026: recommended
- August 2026: recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 8 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- Nobody criticizes itNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 3 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, not met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Competitive with top models
“the Nemotron models from nVidia are quite real. Including a Nemotron Ultra variety meant to be large enough for near-SOTA.”
Comment from 13 Jun 2026 in “Open Source AI Must Win” “Nemotron Ultra on OpenRouter is nearly as good, but it's down a LOT”
Comment from 1 Jul 2026 in “You really shouldn't copy-paste errors into Claude Code” “Nemotron Ultra is extremely competitive.”
Comment from 4 Jul 2026 in “Right to Local Intelligence” Large open-weight model
“the Nemotron models from nVidia are quite real. Including a Nemotron Ultra variety meant to be large enough for near-SOTA.”
Comment from 13 Jun 2026 in “Open Source AI Must Win” “there's also the recently released 550b Ultra now”
Comment from 21 Jun 2026 in “Apertus – Open Foundation Model for Sovereign AI”
Other open-weight language models people recommend
The four most recommended other open-weight language models, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Qwen 3.8 27B | 1,173 | 426 | 73% | 13 | 2 mo32 owners | Approved |
| Z.ai GLM | 1,043 | 384 | 73% | 13 | 2 mo52 owners | Approved |
| Kimi | 931 | 359 | 72% | 13 | 1 mo26 owners | Approved |
| Gemma 4 | 713 | 249 | 74% | 13 | 1 mo14 owners | Approved |
| Nvidia Nemotron UltraThis page | 8 | 0 | 100% | 3 | — | — |
What people said
7 of the 8 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“I find them very useful for RAG-like problems”
“Nemotron Ultra is extremely competitive.”
“Nemotron Ultra on OpenRouter is nearly as good, but it's down a LOT”
“Ultra has been a VERY cost-effective alternative once we got through the nuances.”
“there's also the recently released 550b Ultra now”
“the Nemotron models from nVidia are quite real. Including a Nemotron Ultra variety meant to be large enough for near-SOTA.”
“it is well optimized for fast inference, so it is much faster than the other LLMs of the same size”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.