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NVIDIA Nemotron-3 Nano: Cost Control for AI Inference

NVIDIA Nemotron-3 Nano delivers efficient AI inference with cost control features, enabling developers to optimize performance while managing computational expe

Developers can optimize AI inference costs using NVIDIA’s Nemotron-3 Nano reasoning controls.

Budget Management:

  • Reasoning ON/OFF modes: Toggle deep thinking capabilities based on task complexity
  • Configurable thinking budget: Cap the number of reasoning tokens generated to prevent runaway costs

Performance Features:

  • Hybrid Mamba-Transformer architecture: Delivers 4x faster inference than previous versions while maintaining accuracy
  • 3.6B active parameters per token: Reduces computational overhead compared to larger models
  • 1M-token context window: Handles extensive documents without multiple API calls

This 31.6B-parameter model with mixture-of-experts design lets teams control exactly how much computational power each query consumes, making inference expenses predictable and significantly reducing operational costs for reasoning-heavy applications.