# NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B A55B NVFP4 vs Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B Instruct Fp8

On provider list prices, Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B Instruct Fp8 costs $2 per million input tokens against $0.60 for NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B A55B NVFP4: effectively level. Output is $2 against $3.60 (1.8x). On Allocate both bill at list plus the 7% transaction fee.

## Specifications

| | NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B A55B NVFP4 | Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B Instruct Fp8 |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Lab | NVIDIA | Qwen |
| Access | API only | Open weights |
| Context window | 512K tokens | 256K tokens |
| List price, input | $0.60 / M tokens | $2 / M tokens |
| List price, output | $3.60 / M tokens | $2 / M tokens |
| Cached input | $0.20 / M tokens | n/a |
| License | Proprietary API | Apache 2.0 |
| Fine-tunable | No | Yes |

Specifications and provider list prices from the Allocate catalog, checked 2026-07-08. Billed price is list plus the 7% transaction fee.

## What the numbers say

Take 1,000,000 requests a month at 1,200 input and 350 output tokens each. That workload costs $1,980 a month on NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B A55B NVFP4 and $3,100 on Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B Instruct Fp8 at list: a gap of $1,120, or 1.6x.

NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B A55B NVFP4 reads 512K tokens per request against 256K for Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B Instruct Fp8, 2.0x the window. That decides which one can take whole documents without splitting them.

## Choose NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B A55B NVFP4 for

- The lower list price ($0.60 in / $3.60 out per M tokens)
- The longer context window (512K vs 256K tokens)
- Published cached-input pricing ($0.20 per M tokens)

## Choose Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B Instruct Fp8 for

- Open weights you can fine-tune and own
- Fine-tuning under a permissive license (Apache 2.0)

## Common questions

### Which is cheaper, NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B A55B NVFP4 or Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B Instruct Fp8?

NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B A55B NVFP4, on this workload shape. At list prices it is $0.60/$3.60 per million tokens in and out against $2/$2 for Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B Instruct Fp8. Billed on Allocate: $0.64/$3.85 against $2.14/$2.14, list plus 7%.

### Which has the bigger context window?

NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B A55B NVFP4: 512,288 tokens (512K) against 262,144 (256K) for Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B Instruct Fp8.

### Can I fine-tune NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B A55B NVFP4 or Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B Instruct Fp8?

Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B Instruct Fp8 publishes open weights (Apache 2.0) and can be fine-tuned on your own data. NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B A55B NVFP4 is a closed model served over API; its weights are not available.

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