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R1 Distill Llama 70B vs Nemotron 3 Ultra

Side by side · benchmarks, pricing, and signals you can act on.

Winner summary

Nemotron 3 Ultra wins 2 of 2 shared benchmarks. Leads in speed.

Category leads
speed·Nemotron 3 Ultra
Hype vs Reality
R1 Distill Llama 70B
#232 by perf·no signal
QUIET
Nemotron 3 Ultra
#105 by perf·no signal
QUIET
Best value
1.1x better value than R1 Distill Llama 70B
R1 Distill Llama 70B
34.8 pts/$
$0.80/M
Nemotron 3 Ultra
38.4 pts/$
$1.35/M
Vendor risk
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DeepSeek logo
DeepSeek
$3.4B·Tier 1
Higher risk
NVIDIA logo
NVIDIA
$4.50T·Big Tech
Low risk
Head to head
R1 Distill Llama 70BNemotron 3 Ultra
Artificial Analysis · Coding Index
Nemotron 3 Ultra leads by +37.8
Artificial Analysis Coding Index · a composite score that aggregates performance across multiple coding benchmarks into a single index. Tracks code generation quality, debugging ability, multi-language competence, and real-world software engineering tasks. Used by Artificial Analysis to rank model coding capability in a normalized, comparable format. Useful for developers choosing between models for coding-heavy workloads.
R1 Distill Llama 70B
11.4
Nemotron 3 Ultra
49.3
Artificial Analysis · Quality Index
Nemotron 3 Ultra leads by +21.8
R1 Distill Llama 70B
15.9
Nemotron 3 Ultra
37.8
Full benchmark table
BenchmarkR1 Distill Llama 70BNemotron 3 Ultra
Artificial Analysis · Coding Index
Artificial Analysis Coding Index · a composite score that aggregates performance across multiple coding benchmarks into a single index. Tracks code generation quality, debugging ability, multi-language competence, and real-world software engineering tasks. Used by Artificial Analysis to rank model coding capability in a normalized, comparable format. Useful for developers choosing between models for coding-heavy workloads.
11.449.3
Artificial Analysis · Quality Index
15.937.8
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
ModelInputOutputContextProjected $/mo
DeepSeek logoR1 Distill Llama 70B$0.80$0.80128K tokens (~64 books)$8.00
NVIDIA logoNemotron 3 Ultra$0.50$2.201.0M tokens (~500 books)$9.25