NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Ultra (free) vs OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b
Based on weekly OpenRouter usage tracked by AI Tier List, NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Ultra (free) ranks #6 overall — ahead of OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b at #19. NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Ultra (free) is cheaper on input tokens at Free/1M vs $0.04/1M for OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b. NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Ultra (free) offers the larger context window at 1M tokens.
Spec Comparison
| NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Ultra (free) | OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b | |
|---|---|---|
| Author | nvidia | openai |
| Input price (per 1M tokens) | Free | $0.04 |
| Output price (per 1M tokens) | Free | $0.17 |
| Context window | 1M | 131K |
| Input modalities | text | text |
| Output modalities | text | text |
| AA Intelligence | — | — |
| AA Coding | — | — |
| AA Agentic | — | — |
| Released | Jun 2026 | Aug 2025 |
Usage Rank by Task
| Task | NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Ultra (free) | OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b |
|---|---|---|
| Overall | #6 | #19 |
| Memory Extraction | #5 | — |
| Multi-step Planning | #9 | — |
| Web Search | #8 | — |
| Classification & Tagging | — | #5 |
| Debugging | #6 | — |
| DevOps Config | #6 | — |
| File Read/Write | #8 | — |
| Frontend UI | #8 | — |
| Code Implementation | #8 | — |
| Repo Analysis | #7 | — |
| Code Review & Security | #8 | — |
| Shell Execution | #8 | — |
| SQL & Database | #9 | — |
| Conversation | #6 | — |
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Usage ranks are weekly data aggregated by OpenRouter. Prices are USD per 1M tokens.