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Reviewed October 2026

Nemotron 3 Nano 9B

NVIDIA's Nemotron 3 at 9B. Tuned for NVIDIA-stack deployment patterns; strong tool-calling reliability.

License: NVIDIA Open Model License·Released Jan 22, 2026·Context: 131,072 tokens

Overview

NVIDIA's Nemotron 3 at 9B. Tuned for NVIDIA-stack deployment patterns; strong tool-calling reliability.

Family & lineage

How this model relates to others in its lineage. Family members share architecture and training-data roots; parent / children edges record direct distillation or fine-tune relationships.

Distilled / fine-tuned from this

Strengths

  • NVIDIA stack alignment
  • Strong tool-calling

Weaknesses

  • Smaller community than Llama / Qwen

Quantization variants

Each quantization trades model quality for file size and VRAM. Q4_K_M is the most popular starting point.

QuantizationFile sizeVRAM required
Q4_K_M5.3 GB7 GB

Get the model

HuggingFace

Original weights

huggingface.co/nvidia/Nemotron-3-Nano-9B

Source repository — direct quantization required.

Hardware that runs this

Cards with enough VRAM for at least one quantization of Nemotron 3 Nano 9B.

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Frequently asked

What's the minimum VRAM to run Nemotron 3 Nano 9B?

7GB of VRAM is enough to run Nemotron 3 Nano 9B at the Q4_K_M quantization (file size 5.3 GB). Higher-quality quantizations need more.

Can I use Nemotron 3 Nano 9B commercially?

Yes — Nemotron 3 Nano 9B ships under the NVIDIA Open Model License, which permits commercial use. Always read the license text before deployment.

What's the context length of Nemotron 3 Nano 9B?

Nemotron 3 Nano 9B supports a context window of 131,072 tokens (about 131K).

Source: huggingface.co/nvidia/Nemotron-3-Nano-9B

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