NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra is an open frontier-reasoning and orchestration model from NVIDIA, with 55B active parameters out of 550B total (MoE). Built on a hybrid Transformer-Mamba mixture-of-experts architecture, it...
Model details →NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Ultra (free) vs Qwen: Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-02-15
NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Ultra (free) wins on 2 of 6 axes — pricing and capability skew in its favour for most workloads.
The Qwen3.5 native vision-language series Plus models are built on a hybrid architecture that integrates linear attention mechanisms with sparse mixture-of-experts models, achieving higher inference efficiency. In a variety of...
Model details →Side-by-side comparison
| Capability | NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Ultra (free) | Qwen: Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-02-15 | Winner |
|---|---|---|---|
| Context window Maximum number of input tokens the model can attend to in a single request. | 1M | 1M | Tie |
| Input price (per 1M) Cost per million input tokens billed by the provider. | $0.00 | $0.26 | 🏆 NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Ultra (free) |
| Output price (per 1M) Cost per million output tokens billed by the provider. | $0.00 | $1.56 | 🏆 NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Ultra (free) |
| Tool / function calling First-class support for emitting structured tool calls. | Yes | Yes | Tie |
| Vision input Accepts image inputs alongside text. | — | Yes | 🏆 Qwen: Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-02-15 |
| Reasoning mode Internal chain-of-thought / extended-thinking support. | Yes | Yes | Tie |
Frequently asked questions
Is NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Ultra (free) better than Qwen: Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-02-15?
NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Ultra (free) wins on 2 of 6 axes — pricing and capability skew in its favour for most workloads.
What's the price difference between NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Ultra (free) and Qwen: Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-02-15?
Input: $0.00 vs $0.26 per 1M tokens. Output: $0.00 vs $1.56 per 1M tokens.
What context windows do NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Ultra (free) and Qwen: Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-02-15 support?
NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Ultra (free) supports up to 1M tokens. Qwen: Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-02-15 supports up to 1M tokens.
Do both NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Ultra (free) and Qwen: Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-02-15 support tool calling?
NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Ultra (free): yes. Qwen: Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-02-15: yes.
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