NVIDIA: Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253B v1
NVIDIA Developer Architecture Profile
Intelligence (ELO)1191Chatbot Arena Verified
Max Context131,072Tokens
API Cost / 1M$2.40Blended Prompt + Completion
Model Capabilities
- Conversational
Llama-3.1-Nemotron-Ultra-253B-v1 is a large language model (LLM) optimized for advanced reasoning, human-interactive chat, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and tool-calling tasks. Derived from Meta’s Llama-3.1-405B-Instruct, it has been significantly customized using Neural Architecture Search (NAS), resulting in enhanced efficiency, reduced memory usage, and improved inference latency. The model supports a context length of up to 128K tokens and can operate efficiently on an 8x NVIDIA H100 node.
Note: you must include `detailed thinking on` in the system prompt to enable reasoning. Please see [Usage Recommendations](https://huggingface.co/nvidia/Llama-3_1-Nemotron-Ultra-253B-v1#quick-start-and-usage-recommendations) for more.
Granular Pricing Matrix
Input Tokens (Prompt)$0.60 / 1M
Output Tokens (Completion)$1.80 / 1M
Pricing data via OpenRouter. Sync: 3/22/2026
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