Model Spend Arena2ND ED.
550B · MoE · 262,144 ctx · 2026-10-10

Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B

Runs on — · Hugging Face ↗

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AA coding index 49.3 (Artificial Analysis, frozen since 2026-09-11)

NVIDIA's flagship 550B-total MoE (~55B active), with a 1M-token context. Also offered free on some hosts, but self-hosting is cluster-scale.

Sizes on disk

Real GGUF file sizes = weight VRAM.

QuantizationSize
IQ1_M188.0 GB
IQ2_XXS193.8 GB
IQ2_M194.0 GB
Q2_K_XL202.2 GB
IQ3_XXS223.3 GB
IQ3_S250.5 GB
Q3_K_M274.0 GB
Q3_K_XL274.3 GB
IQ4_XS286.1 GB
IQ4_NL294.2 GB
Q4_K_S327.7 GB
MXFP4352.3 GB
Q4_K_M359.2 GB
Q4_K_XL360.2 GB
Q5_K_S391.7 GB
Q5_K_M426.5 GB
Q5_K_XL427.2 GB
Q6_K460.7 GB
Q6_K_XL523.1 GB
Q8_0584.3 GB
Q8_K_XL594.5 GB
BF161099.0 GB

Config tips

~360 GB at Q4 — multi-node. The 1M context makes the KV cache enormous, so long-context runs need even more headroom. Rent it unless you have the fleet.