GPT-4o Mini vs Nemotron 3 Ultra (free)

OpenAI’s most advanced small model, GPT-4o mini, supports both text and image inputs with text outputs. It is highly cost-effective, achieving SOTA intelligence and outperforming larger models on key benchmarks, making it ideal for scalable, interactive applications.

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.