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NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B-A55B: Specs, GPU Requirements and License

NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B-A55B is a recent General release in the NVIDIA Nemotron family, certified from its immutable official source revision.

Technical deployment reference illustration for NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B-A55B
Reference deployment flow; exact architecture facts are listed separately.
Total parameters550.0B
Active parameters55.0B
Context window262,144 tokens
Release statusRecent · Recent
ArchitectureMoE Transformer
ModalitiesText
Licenseother
Deployment stateDeployable with certified configuration
Commercial stateUnknown / Not Recommendable
Release date2026-06-03

Architecture, strengths and use cases

NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B-A55B is an official self-hostable NVIDIA release in the NVIDIA Nemotron General track. It uses MoE Transformer, carries 550B / 55B MoE, supports a verified context window of 262,144 tokens, and exposes only source-certified checkpoints and runtime combinations. Its release, license and deployment facts are tied to the official repository revision rather than inferred from the family name.

NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B-A55B uses MoE Transformer with 550B / 55B MoE. The stored architecture profile records 64 layers, hidden width 8192, 64 attention heads and a 262,144 token context ceiling where the official configuration publishes those fields.

Verified MoE Transformer architecture
262,144 token certified context
Official BF16, NVFP4, Unknown checkpoint coverage
Private LLM inference
Agentic workflows
Long-context document processing

Certified checkpoints and quantizations

Only exact, source-certified variants attached to this release are shown.

NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Ultra-550B-A55B-BF16

nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Ultra-550B-A55B-BF16

Official · BF16 · safetensors

Runtime certified: Transformers

Precision / quantizationFormatBitsPublisher trustDeployment state
BF16safetensors16OfficialRuntime certified

NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Ultra-550B-A55B-NVFP4

nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Ultra-550B-A55B-NVFP4

Official · NVFP4 · safetensors

Runtime certified: Transformers

Precision / quantizationFormatBitsPublisher trustDeployment state
NVFP4safetensors4OfficialRuntime certified

Recommended hardware

Use only the listed transformers runtime configuration with the exact checkpoint precision. The recommendation engine checks weight memory, KV cache, runtime overhead, safety headroom, GPU architecture and topology before ranking rentable and reference hardware.

Unknown / Not Recommendable

Commercial rights are not verified, so this release is not commercially recommendable.

License and self-hosting considerations

The full 550B resident weight set must fit across the selected GPUs. Context and concurrency add KV-cache memory; MoE active parameters do not replace resident-weight memory.

NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B-A55B is published under other. The release-scoped official license link and verification date are retained with the catalogue record.

Unknown / Not Recommendable. Commercial rights are not verified, so this release is not commercially recommendable.

Alternatives and sibling variants

NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super 120B-A12B, NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B, NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Ultra-550B-A55B-NVFP4

Release timeline

nvidia/nemotron/nemotron-3-ultra-550b-a55b

Source details

Official source

Source revision: ac6e67d70b7e8a6f10d1323aee594980c0fdb0a43eec104ffbe84e87897885ec

Frequently asked questions

How much VRAM does NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B-A55B require?

The exact estimate depends on checkpoint precision, context and concurrency; the page recommendation uses the certified memory engine and compatible runtime configurations.

Which runtimes support NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B-A55B?

Certified upstream runtime evidence is available for transformers.

Can NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B-A55B be used commercially?

The stored commercial classification is Unknown / Not Recommendable. Consult the official other terms for the final obligations.

Official references

Last verified: 2026-09-03