Deepseek V4 Pro vs Nemotron 3 Ultra (free)

DeepSeek V4 Pro is a large-scale Mixture-of-Experts model from DeepSeek with 1.6T total parameters and 49B active parameters, supporting a 1M-token context window. It is designed for advanced reasoning, coding, and long-horizon agent workflows, delivering strong results across knowledge, mathematics, and software engineering benchmarks. Built on the same architecture as DeepSeek V4 Flash, it adds a hybrid attention system for efficient long-context processing and supports multiple reasoning modes to balance speed and depth based on the task. It is well suited for demanding workloads such as full-codebase analysis, multi-step automation, and large-scale information synthesis, where both performance and efficiency are essential.

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 supports text input and output with a context window of up to 1M tokens. It is suited for long-running agentic workflows, including agent orchestration, coding agents, deep research, and complex enterprise tasks. It is particularly strong at multi-step reasoning and planning, with high-throughput inference designed for high-volume agent pipelines. It is part of the NVIDIA Nemotron family of open models for agentic AI.