Nemotron 3 UltravsGPT-5.6 Terra
Nemotron 3 Ultra | GPT-5.6 Terra | |
|---|---|---|
| Specifications | ||
ParametersA rough measure of how big the model is. More parameters usually means more capable and more expensive to run, though it is a poor guide on its own — a smaller, newer model often beats a larger, older one. | 550B | — |
| API pricingUSD per 1M tokens · lower wins · base tier | ||
Input priceWhat you pay for everything you send the model — your question, plus any documents or earlier conversation you include with it. | — | $2.00 |
Output priceWhat you pay for the text the model writes back. It is normally the dearer half: producing an answer costs more than reading one. | — | $12.00 |
Cached input priceA reduced rate for text you send over and over. If every request starts with the same instructions or the same document, the provider keeps a copy ready and charges less to read it again. | — | $0.20 |
Cheapest inputLowest input rate across third-party providers, excluding the lab itself. The cheapest endpoint may run a quantised build or a shorter context — see "Available from" on the model page. | $0.50DeepInfra | $2.00Azure |
Cheapest outputLowest output rate across third-party providers, excluding the lab itself. May come from a different provider than the cheapest input. | $2.20DeepInfra | $12.00Azure |
| Benchmarks | ||
BrowseCompWeb browsing — Can the AI browse the web and track down hard-to-find answers? Higher is better. | 44.4% | 87.5% |
| BenchmarksPublished by one model only | ||
BullshitBench v2Nonsense detection — Given a confidently-worded but nonsensical prompt, does the AI spot that it makes no sense and push back — instead of playing along and inventing an answer? The score is how often it clearly called out the nonsense. Higher is better. | — | 53% |
Gray Swan IPI · k = 1Prompt injection robustness — Attackers hide malicious instructions inside content the AI reads — a web page, an email, a document — and try to hijack what it does. Gray Swan's indirect prompt injection benchmark measures how often such an attack succeeds when the attacker gets a single try. Lower is better. | — | 5.4% |
Gray Swan IPI · k = 10Prompt injection robustness — Attackers hide malicious instructions inside content the AI reads — a web page, an email, a document — and try to hijack what it does. This variant gives the attacker 10 tries and counts an attack as successful if any of them works. Lower is better. | — | 26% |
Gray Swan IPI · k = 15Prompt injection robustness — Attackers hide malicious instructions inside content the AI reads — a web page, an email, a document — and try to hijack what it does. This variant gives the attacker 15 tries and counts an attack as successful if any of them works. Lower is better. | — | 30.4% |
SWE-Bench VerifiedCoding — Real coding tasks pulled from open-source projects — the AI has to find and fix actual bugs. A human-checked version of the original SWE-Bench. Higher is better. | 71.9% | — |
Frontier-Bench v0.1Agentic computer work — A hard, ever-evolving set of real computer tasks — coding, system administration, data work, and more — that an AI agent has to complete on its own. Run by the Harbor / Laude Institute team as the successor to Terminal-Bench (v0.1 is the first release of the task set). The score is the share of tasks solved. Higher is better. | — | 20.8% |
Terminal-Bench 4.0Agentic terminal coding — Can the AI work in a command-line terminal — running commands and finishing technical setup tasks the way a developer would? Version 4.0 recalibrated how much time, CPU and memory each task gets, removed eight tasks and fixed nineteen, so fewer runs fail for reasons that have nothing to do with the model. Scores are not comparable with earlier versions. Higher is better. | — | 21.52% |
Terminal-Bench 2.1Agentic terminal coding — Can the AI work in a command-line terminal — running commands and finishing technical setup tasks the way a developer would? Higher is better. | — | 84.3% |
Humanity's Last Exam · with toolsMultidisciplinary reasoning — Humanity's Last Exam — extremely hard expert questions across many subjects. “With tools” means the AI is allowed to search the web or run code while answering. Higher is better. | 26.7% | — |
ARC-AGI-2Abstract reasoning — Puzzle-style tests of abstract reasoning and pattern-finding — the kind of thing people find easy but AIs often struggle with. Higher is better. | — | 83.9% |
GPQA DiamondScience — Graduate-level science questions in biology, physics, and chemistry — hard enough that subject-matter PhDs score around 65%. Higher is better. | 86.7% | — |
AA Intelligence IndexOverall intelligence — Artificial Analysis composite intelligence index across evals | 48 | — |
| Overview | ||
| Company | NVIDIA | OpenAI |
| Release date | Jun 4 2026 | Jun 26 2026 |
| Access | Open Source | Proprietary |
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Frequently asked questions
GPT-5.6 Terra leads Nemotron 3 Ultra on 1 of the 1 benchmark they both report (BrowseComp). Only GPT-5.6 Terra has a verified first-party API price: $2.00 per million input tokens and $12.00 per million output tokens. No pay-as-you-go API rate is tracked for Nemotron 3 Ultra. Nemotron 3 Ultra shipped 22 days before GPT-5.6 Terra, so benchmark comparisons should account for the intervening progress.
Nemotron 3 Ultra is open source, while GPT-5.6 Terra is proprietary.
On BrowseComp, GPT-5.6 Terra leads at 87.5% vs Nemotron 3 Ultra at 44.4%.
Nemotron 3 Ultra was released by NVIDIA on Jun 4 2026.
GPT-5.6 Terra was released by OpenAI on Jun 26 2026.
Only GPT-5.6 Terra has a verified first-party API price: $2.00 per million input tokens and $12.00 per million output tokens. No pay-as-you-go API rate is tracked for Nemotron 3 Ultra. Rates are pay-as-you-go API prices verified on August 18, 2026.
Nemotron 3 Ultra is an open source model released by NVIDIA. GPT-5.6 Terra is a proprietary model released by OpenAI.