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Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253B v1

NVIDIA · 253B

Strongest in Tool use (#80 of 81), weakest in Agents (#271 of 298). Above par in 2 of 4 scopes. Among the models it meets almost everywhere, it finishes behind Gemini 3 Pro and Claude Opus 4.5 and ahead of Mercury 2 and Granite 4.2 30B.

§ 1 · Profile

What it is good at

Bars run from 50 — the average of the models each source lists — so right of the line is above par. The middle column is the gap to whoever leads that scope.

Human preference51.7#178/354
Human preference51.7#178/354
Agents41.6#271/298
Tool use29.8#80/81

§ 2 · Head to head

What it beats, and what beats it

The same models turn up scope after scope. Counted once: where both were placed, who finished higher. Bars run right for Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253B v1, left for the other.

Granite 4.2 3Bwon 3 · lost 0
NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3Bwon 3 · lost 0
Llama 3.1 8B Instructwon 3 · lost 1
Gemma 3 12B ITwon 3 · lost 1
GPT-4won 2 · lost 1
Granite 4.2 8Bwon 2 · lost 1
Mistral Small 3.1 24B Instructwon 2 · lost 1
GPT-4o miniwon 2 · lost 1
GPT OSS 20Bwon 2 · lost 1
Claude 3.5 Haikuwon 2 · lost 1
GPT-4owon 2 · lost 1
Granite 4.2 30Bwon 2 · lost 1
Mercury 2won 2 · lost 1
Llama 3.2 1B Instructwon 2 · lost 2
Llama 3.2 3B Instructwon 2 · lost 2
Granite 3.1 8B Instructwon 2 · lost 2
Ministral 8Bwon 2 · lost 2
Amazon Nova Microwon 2 · lost 2
Phi 4won 2 · lost 2
Amazon Nova Prowon 2 · lost 2
Gemma 3 4B ITwon 2 · lost 2
Mistral Large 2.1won 2 · lost 2
Llama 3.3 70B Instructwon 2 · lost 2
Llama 4 Scout Instructwon 2 · lost 2
GPT-4.1 nanowon 2 · lost 2
Llama 4 Maverick Instructwon 2 · lost 2
Amazon Nova 2 Litewon 2 · lost 2
GPT-5 nanowon 2 · lost 2
Qwen3 32Bwon 2 · lost 2
O3 Miniwon 1 · lost 2
DeepSeek V3won 1 · lost 2
Qwen3 235B A22B Thinkingwon 1 · lost 2
DeepSeek R1won 1 · lost 2
Inklingwon 1 · lost 2
Gemma 4 31Bwon 1 · lost 2
Gemma 3 27B ITwon 1 · lost 3
NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3Bwon 0 · lost 3
GPT OSS 120Bwon 0 · lost 3
NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12Bwon 0 · lost 3
Trinity Largewon 0 · lost 3
Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinkingwon 0 · lost 3
MiMo V2 Flashwon 0 · lost 3
Solar Pro 4won 0 · lost 3
Claude 3.7 Sonnetwon 0 · lost 3
Qwen3.5 35B A3Bwon 0 · lost 3
GPT-5.4 nanowon 0 · lost 3
Claude Sonnet 4won 0 · lost 3
Inkling Smallwon 0 · lost 3
Mistral Medium 3.1won 0 · lost 3
Inkling 2 Smallwon 0 · lost 3
Mistral Large 3won 0 · lost 3
MiniMax M2.7won 0 · lost 3
DeepSeek V3.1 Terminuswon 0 · lost 3
Qwen3.5 122B A10Bwon 0 · lost 3
Claude Haiku 5.5won 0 · lost 3
Mistral Large 4won 0 · lost 3
Muse Glimmerwon 0 · lost 3
NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B A55Bwon 0 · lost 3
Mistral Medium 3.5won 0 · lost 3
Qwen3.8 27Bwon 0 · lost 3
Gemini 3.1 Flash-Litewon 0 · lost 3
MiMo V2.5won 0 · lost 3
GPT-5won 0 · lost 3
MiniMax M3won 0 · lost 3
Gemma 4 26B A4Bwon 0 · lost 3
DeepSeek V4 Flashwon 0 · lost 3
GLM-4.7won 0 · lost 3
GPT-6 Lunawon 0 · lost 3
Qwen3.5 397B A17Bwon 0 · lost 3
Grok 4.7won 0 · lost 3
Grok 4.3won 0 · lost 3
Qwen3.6 Pluswon 0 · lost 3
Gemini 2.5 Prowon 0 · lost 3
GPT-5.4 miniwon 0 · lost 3
Step 5won 0 · lost 3
MiMo V2.6 Flashwon 0 · lost 3
Kimi K2.5won 0 · lost 3
GPT-5.6 Lunawon 0 · lost 3
Hy3won 0 · lost 3
Gemini 3.5 Flash-Litewon 0 · lost 3
Qwen3.7 Pluswon 0 · lost 3
GPT-5.1won 0 · lost 3
Grok 4.6won 0 · lost 3
GPT-6 Solwon 0 · lost 3
Kimi K2.6won 0 · lost 3
Claude Sonnet 5won 0 · lost 3
DeepSeek V4 Prowon 0 · lost 3
GLM-5.1won 0 · lost 3
Grok 4.5won 0 · lost 3
MiMo V2.5 Prowon 0 · lost 3
GPT-5.6 Terrawon 0 · lost 3
Claude Sonnet 5.5won 0 · lost 3
Claude Sonnet 4.6won 0 · lost 3
GPT-5.5 Instantwon 0 · lost 3
Qwen3.7 Maxwon 0 · lost 3
GPT-6 Astrawon 0 · lost 3
GLM-5.3 Flashwon 0 · lost 3
DeepSeek V4.1 Flashwon 0 · lost 3
GLM-5.2won 0 · lost 3
GPT-5.4won 0 · lost 3
Gemini 3.5 Flashwon 0 · lost 3
MiMo V2.6 Prowon 0 · lost 3
GPT-5.5won 0 · lost 3
GPT-6.1 Solwon 0 · lost 3
Claude Opus 4.8won 0 · lost 3
Kimi K3.1 Prowon 0 · lost 3
GLM-5.3won 0 · lost 3
Gemini 3.6 Flashwon 0 · lost 3
Qwen3.8 Maxwon 0 · lost 3
GPT-5.6 Solwon 0 · lost 3
Kimi K3won 0 · lost 3
Gemini 3.1 Prowon 0 · lost 3
Muse Sparkwon 0 · lost 3
Gemini 3.7 Flashwon 0 · lost 3
Claude Opus 5won 0 · lost 3
Muse Spark 1.1won 0 · lost 3
Muse Spark 1.2won 0 · lost 3
Muse Spark 1.3won 0 · lost 3
Gemini 3.8 Flashwon 0 · lost 3
Claude Opus 4.7won 0 · lost 3
Claude Fable 5.1won 0 · lost 3
Claude Fable 5won 0 · lost 3
Claude Opus 5.5won 0 · lost 3
Muse Wonderwon 0 · lost 3
Gemini 4 Argonwon 0 · lost 3
Gemini 4 Carbonwon 0 · lost 3
Command Awon 0 · lost 4
Mistral Small 3.2won 0 · lost 4
Gemini 2.5 Flash-Litewon 0 · lost 4
Qwen3 30B A3B Instructwon 0 · lost 4
GPT-4.1 miniwon 0 · lost 4
Mistral Medium 3won 0 · lost 4
GPT-5 miniwon 0 · lost 4
O4 Miniwon 0 · lost 4
Gemini 2.5 Flashwon 0 · lost 4
Grok 4won 0 · lost 4
Claude Haiku 4.5won 0 · lost 4
GPT-4.1won 0 · lost 4
Kimi K2won 0 · lost 4
Qwen3 235B A22B Instructwon 0 · lost 4
DeepSeek V3.2won 0 · lost 4
GLM-4.6won 0 · lost 4
Grok 4.1 Fastwon 0 · lost 4
O3won 0 · lost 4
GPT-5.2won 0 · lost 4
Claude Sonnet 4.5won 0 · lost 4
Claude Opus 4.5won 0 · lost 4
Gemini 3 Prowon 0 · lost 4

§ 3 · Sources

Where the numbers come from

2 publications, 2 figures. Every one links to the page it was read from.

LMArena Text ↗1 measureread 2026-11-12
LMArena Text 1348
BFCL ↗1 measureread 2026-11-12
BFCL v4 10%

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