Model comparison
Nemotron 3 Ultra vs o3-pro
Nemotron 3 Ultra and o3-pro score almost the same on the Noometry Index (42.5 vs 42.9), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 4 shared benchmarks.
Summary
- They share 4 benchmarks with published results for both. Nemotron 3 Ultra scores higher in 3 categories and o3-pro in 2 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in long context, where o3-pro leads 72.2 to 43.9.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is WeirdML: 43.5% for Nemotron 3 Ultra and 58.2% for o3-pro.
- Nemotron 3 Ultra is cheaper at $0.60 / $2.40 per million input/output tokens, against $20 / $80 for o3-pro.
- Nemotron 3 Ultra accepts more context: 262K tokens versus 200K.
- Nemotron 3 Ultra has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Nemotron 3 Ultra | o3-pro | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | NVIDIA | OpenAI |
| Noometry Index | 42.5 | 42.9 |
| Released | 2026-06-04 | 2025-06-10 |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |
| Context window | 262K | 200K |
| Max output | 128K | 100K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.60 | $20 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $2.40 | $80 |
| Results tracked | 30 | 12 |
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Category by category
Coding o3-pro leads
Nemotron 3 Ultra: 38.1 (#182), o3-pro: 55.5 (#24)
| Benchmark | Nemotron 3 Ultra | o3-pro |
|---|---|---|
| WeirdML | 43.5% | 58.2% |
| FrontierCode | 13.6% | — |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 84.9% |
| SciCode | 40.3% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1468 | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Nemotron 3 Ultra: 23.4 (#126), o3-pro: —
| Benchmark | Nemotron 3 Ultra | o3-pro |
|---|---|---|
| APEX-Agents | 22.7% | — |
Reasoning Nemotron 3 Ultra leads
Nemotron 3 Ultra: 31.0 (#82), o3-pro: 23.8 (#171)
| Benchmark | Nemotron 3 Ultra | o3-pro |
|---|---|---|
| DTBench | 90.1% | 86.9% |
| LMCA | 36.9% | 38.5% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 146.17 | 147.42 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | — | 4.9% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 72.1% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | — | 59.3% |
| CritPt | 3.1% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | 12% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1452 | — |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | 20% | — |
Math Not comparable
Nemotron 3 Ultra: 35.3 (#187), o3-pro: —
| Benchmark | Nemotron 3 Ultra | o3-pro |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 86.7% | — |
| ProofBench | 2% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1457 | — |
Knowledge Nemotron 3 Ultra leads
Nemotron 3 Ultra: 52.5 (#61), o3-pro: 29.5 (#238)
| Benchmark | Nemotron 3 Ultra | o3-pro |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 85.4% | — |
| Confabulations | — | 14.2% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 23.3% |
| LMArena Expert | 1472 | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Nemotron 3 Ultra: 53.5 (#64), o3-pro: —
| Benchmark | Nemotron 3 Ultra | o3-pro |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1427 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1497 | — |
| LMArena French | 1472 | — |
| LMArena German | 1471 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1386 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1417 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1454 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Nemotron 3 Ultra: 74.7 (#88), o3-pro: —
| Benchmark | Nemotron 3 Ultra | o3-pro |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1418 | — |
Long Context o3-pro leads
Nemotron 3 Ultra: 43.9 (#81), o3-pro: 72.2 (#1)
| Benchmark | Nemotron 3 Ultra | o3-pro |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 97.2% |
| LMArena Longer Query | 1437 | — |
Writing & Preference Nemotron 3 Ultra leads
Nemotron 3 Ultra: 66.3 (#36), o3-pro: 57.1 (#133)
| Benchmark | Nemotron 3 Ultra | o3-pro |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1445 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1398 | — |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 84.4% |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1692 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1411 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Nemotron 3 Ultra better than o3-pro?
Nemotron 3 Ultra and o3-pro score almost the same on the Noometry Index (42.5 vs 42.9), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Which is cheaper, Nemotron 3 Ultra or o3-pro?
Nemotron 3 Ultra is cheaper. It lists at $0.60 per million input tokens and $2.40 per million output tokens; o3-pro lists at $20 and $80.
Is Nemotron 3 Ultra or o3-pro better for coding?
o3-pro scores higher on coding benchmarks: 55.5 versus 38.1 in the Noometry coding category.
Which has the bigger context window?
Nemotron 3 Ultra does, with 262K tokens against 200K.
How many benchmarks do Nemotron 3 Ultra and o3-pro share?
4 benchmarks have published results for both models. Nemotron 3 Ultra has 30 scored results on Noometry and o3-pro has 12.