Nemotron 3 Ultra (550B A55B) vs Qwen3.8 Max: Specs & Benchmark Comparison
Nemotron 3 Ultra (550B A55B) is developed by NVIDIA, while Qwen3.8 Max comes from Alibaba. Nemotron 3 Ultra (550B A55B) was released in June 2026, and Qwen3.8 Max followed 2 months later in August 2026. Qwen3.8 Max is the larger model at roughly 2.4 trillion parameters, against 550 billion for Nemotron 3 Ultra (550B A55B).
The two models share 5 published benchmarks. Qwen3.8 Max leads on 5 of them. The widest gaps are on Terminal-Bench 2.1, where Qwen3.8 Max scores 86.6% against 56.4%; Humanity's Last Exam, where Qwen3.8 Max scores 43.6% against 37.4%. Averaged across everything we track, Nemotron 3 Ultra (550B A55B) sits at 64.8% and Qwen3.8 Max at 71.0%.
Qwen3.8 Max is available through an API at $2.50 per million input tokens with a 1M-token context window. We do not track a hosted API for Nemotron 3 Ultra (550B A55B), so pricing and context cannot be compared directly.
| Characteristic | Nemotron 3 Ultra (550B A55B) | Qwen3.8 Max |
|---|---|---|
| Company | NVIDIA | Alibaba |
| Release Date | June 4, 2026 | August 2, 2026 |
| Parameters | 550B | 2.4T |
| Multimodal | No | Yes |
| Context (input) | — | 1.0M |
| Context (output) | — | 131K |
| Input Price / 1M | — | $2.50 |
| Output Price / 1M | — | $6.25 |
| Average Score | 64.8% | 71.0% |
| Benchmarks | ||
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 56.4% | 86.6% |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 37.4% | 43.6% |
| GPQA | 87.0% | 92.6% |
| LongBench v2 | 61.9% | 66.3% |
| IFBench | 81.7% | 82.8% |
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Verdict
Qwen3.8 Max leads in 1 out of 2 comparison categories.
Both models show comparable average scores: Nemotron 3 Ultra (550B A55B) — 0.6, Qwen3.8 Max — 0.7.
Qwen3.8 Max is newer: released 8/2/2026 vs 6/4/2026.
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The Nemotron 3 Ultra (550B A55B) and Qwen3.8 Max comparison is updated for 2026. Data includes benchmark results, API pricing, context window size and other specifications. For more detailed information, visit the Nemotron 3 Ultra (550B A55B) or Qwen3.8 Max page. See also the complete list of AI model comparisons.