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Nemotron 3 Nano Omni (free)
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by Nvidia
OPEN WEIGHTSLOCALAPILONG CONTEXTFREE TO TRYREASONING
RANKED #126 OF 228 ASSISTANTS · OVERALL #204 OF 6,618 · VIBE SCORE 5.8 · 51 VOICES
NVIDIA Nemotron™ 3 Nano Omni is a 30B-A3B open multimodal model designed to function as a perception and context sub-agent in enterprise agent systems. It accepts text, image, video, and...
HAPPY9.9
6 mentions
SAD5.1
2 mentions
VIBE TRAJECTORY
26 weeks · 78 voices
QUIETLY DEGRADING
Recent vibe and chatter are both sliding.
HOW TO USE IT
Open weights. You can use a hosted service, or download it and run it yourself, free.
RUN IT ON YOUR OWN MACHINE
Open weights: download Nemotron 3 Nano Omni (free) once and it's yours. No subscription, no rate limits, works offline.
30B total parameters with 3B active (MoE architecture), a Q4 quantized file is about 18 GB
- BARE MINIMUM
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12GB plus 32GB System RAM
12 GB VRAM + 32 GB RAM
~$230 USEDQ4_K_M partial GPU offload, ~12 tok/s, 8k context
- SWEET SPOT
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 24GB
24 GB VRAM
~$1,650 USEDQ4_K_M or NVFP4 full offload, ~45 tok/s, 32k context
- FULL POWER
2x NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 24GB
48 GB VRAM
~$1,400 USEDBF16 unquantized or FP8 full precision, ~70 tok/s, 128k context
LEARN HOW TO SET IT UP
WILL MY BOX RUN NEMOTRON 3 NANO OMNI (FREE)?
The three cards above are researched picks. Search the machine you actually have — we only say yes if it should reply at a usable speed, not just load the weights and crawl.
HARDWARE PICKS & PRICES ARE RESEARCHED FROM THE LIVE WEB AND REFRESHED AUTOMATICALLY. TREAT THEM AS BALLPARK, NOT GOSPEL.
WHAT CAN YOU ACTUALLY DO WITH IT?
Everyday jobs on each of those rigs: how long Nemotron 3 Nano Omni (free) takes, and how good the crowd says it is at that kind of work.
| THE JOB | BARE MINIMUMNVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12GB plus 32GB System RAM | SWEET SPOTNVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 24GB | FULL POWER2x NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 24GB |
|---|---|---|---|
| Write an emaila paragraph or two, drafted from a one-line brief | ~42 S★★★★★ | ~11 S★★★★★ | ~7 S★★★★★ |
| Summarize a documenta long report boiled down to the points that matter | ~2.1 MIN★★★★★ | ~33 S★★★★★ | ~21 S★★★★★ |
| Build a websitea small landing page, markup and styles together | ~11 MIN★★★★★ | ~3 MIN★★★★★ | ~1.9 MIN★★★★★ |
| Build a backendan API with routes, storage and tests | ~35 MIN★★★★★ | ~9.3 MIN★★★★★ | ~6 MIN★★★★★ |
| Build a gamea playable browser game in one file | ~21 MIN★★★★★ | ~5.6 MIN★★★★★ | ~3.6 MIN★★★★★ |
STARS ARE THE COMMUNITY SCORE FOR THAT KIND OF WORK, DOCKED FOR HOW SQUASHED THE WEIGHTS GET AT EACH TIER. TIMES ARE COMPUTED FROM RESEARCHED SPEEDS. BALLPARK, NOT GOSPEL.
WHAT THE INTERNET SAYS
People are mostly happy with Nemotron 3 Nano Omni (free). Biggest praise: help with code.
47 POSTS · 4 COMMENTS · REDDIT · DEV.TO · HACKER NEWS · LEMMY · GITHUB · DEV FORUMS · BLOG · X
PEOPLE LOVE
- Popular for coding help (7 mentions)
- Answers come back fast (3 mentions)
- Usually gives correct answers (3 mentions)
PEOPLE COMPLAIN ABOUT
- Coding help disappoints some people (1 mentions)
TOPIC BY TOPIC
- Help with codePEOPLE LOVE THIS
7 thumbs up · 1 thumbs down
- SpeedPEOPLE LOVE THIS
3 thumbs up · 0 thumbs down
- Getting facts rightPEOPLE LOVE THIS
3 thumbs up · 0 thumbs down
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- REDDIT · 2026-05-27 · 106 UPVOTESI ran 8 open-weight models as agents in a persistent MMO for 10 days. Here's the 93k event dataset and some things that I learned
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- REDDIT · 2026-02-23 · 96 UPVOTESI benchmarked 17 local LLMs on real MCP tool calling — single-shot AND agentic loop. The difference is massive.
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- BLOG · 2026-04-28 · 32 UPVOTESIntroducing NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano Omni: Long-Context Multimodal Intelligence for Documents, Audio and Video Agents
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- BLOG · 2025-12-17 · 32 UPVOTESThe Open Evaluation Standard: Benchmarking NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano with NeMo Evaluator
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- BLOG · 2026-05-26 · 32 UPVOTESSome ideas for what comes next, May 2026
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- X · 2026-08-13 · 28 UPVOTESI'm a big fan of the Nemotron project at NVIDIA. We've been working with their ASR models, the Nemotron 3 Nano/Super/Ult
I'm a big fan of the Nemotron project at NVIDIA. We've been working with their ASR models, the Nemotron 3 Nano/Super/Ult