Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B A55B (Reasoning) API Provider Benchmarking & Analysis
This analysis is intended to support you in choosing the best API provider of Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B A55B (Reasoning) for your use-case.
Fastest
Nebius
CoreWeave
Fireworks
DeepInfra BF16DeepInfraOutput speed
Total 8 providers
Lowest Latency
CoreWeaveNebiusFireworksDeepInfra BF16DeepInfraTime to first answer token
Total 8 providers
Lowest Price
Blackbox AIDeepInfraFireworks
Lightning AI
GMIBlended price (per 1M tokens)
Total 8 providers
Nemotron 3 Ultra is available through 8 API providers, each offering different performance characteristics and pricing. Below is a comparison of the key metrics across providers.
- For output speed, the top providers are Nebius (330.1 t/s), CoreWeave (313.3 t/s), and Fireworks (170.3 t/s). Speed varies significantly across providers, with a 223% difference between the fastest and slowest.
- For latency, CoreWeave (8.27s), Nebius (9.26s), and Fireworks (14.00s) offer the lowest time to first answer token.
- For pricing, Blackbox AI (0.37), DeepInfra (0.39), and Fireworks (0.44) offer the lowest blended prices per 1M tokens. Prices vary up to 3.3x across providers.
Highlights
Update: Default performance benchmarking workload has updated to 10k input tokens to better reflect production use cases. You can still select different workloads above.
Pricing
Pricing: Cache Hit, Input, and Output
Pricing: Blended Price
Pricing: Cache Discount
Output Speed vs. Price
Speed
Measured by Output Speed (tokens per second)
Output Speed: Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B A55B (Reasoning)
Latency vs. Output Speed
Latency
Measured by Time (seconds) to First Token
Time to First Answer Token
End-to-End Response Time
Seconds to output 500 tokens, calculated based on time to first token, 'thinking' time for reasoning models, and output speed
End-to-End Response Time
Key Comparison Metrics & API Features
Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B A55B (Reasoning) providers
Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B A55B (Reasoning) is available through 8 API providers: CoreWeave, GMI, DeepInfra, DeepInfra BF16, Nebius, Lightning AI, Blackbox AI, and Fireworks. Each provider offers different performance characteristics and pricing.
Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B A55B (Reasoning) is currently available through 8 API providers that we benchmark and track.
The most affordable providers for Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B A55B (Reasoning) by blended price are Blackbox AI ($0.37 per 1M tokens), DeepInfra ($0.39 per 1M tokens), and Fireworks ($0.44 per 1M tokens). Blended price uses a 7:2:1 cache hit/input/output token ratio.
The providers with the lowest input token pricing for Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B A55B (Reasoning) are Blackbox AI ($0.32 per 1M input tokens), Lightning AI ($0.41 per 1M input tokens), and DeepInfra ($0.50 per 1M input tokens).
The providers with the lowest output token pricing for Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B A55B (Reasoning) are Blackbox AI ($0.80 per 1M output tokens), Lightning AI ($1.20 per 1M output tokens), and DeepInfra ($2.20 per 1M output tokens).
Prices for Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B A55B (Reasoning) vary up to 3.3x across providers. The most affordable is Blackbox AI at $0.37 per 1M tokens, while Nebius charges $1.20 per 1M tokens.
All 8 providers of Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B A55B (Reasoning) support JSON mode for structured output.
7 of 8 providers support function calling for Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B A55B (Reasoning): CoreWeave, DeepInfra, DeepInfra BF16, Nebius, Lightning AI, Blackbox AI, and Fireworks.
The best provider for Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B A55B (Reasoning) depends on your priorities: Nebius offers the highest output speed, CoreWeave has the lowest latency, and Blackbox AI provides the most competitive pricing.
When choosing a provider for Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B A55B (Reasoning), consider: output speed (for throughput-intensive tasks), latency (for interactive applications requiring quick first responses), pricing (for cost-sensitive workloads), and API features like JSON mode or function calling.
Yes, provider performance can vary over time due to infrastructure changes, load balancing, and updates. We continuously benchmark all providers and display historical performance trends in the "Over Time" charts.
For information about Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B A55B (Reasoning)'s intelligence, capabilities, modalities, and how it compares to other models, see the model overview page. View model overview