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Ising Calibration 1 35B A3B vs Llama 3 1 Nemotron Ultra 253B v1

Ising Calibration 1 35B A3B (NVIDIA) and Llama 3 1 Nemotron Ultra 253B v1 (NVIDIA) compared on the ModelCap Index, API price, context window, provider availability, weight access and every public benchmark board they share. Figures are the same ones shown on the live rankings; nothing here is a hidden score.

Snapshot as of 15 September 2026

As of 15 September 2026, Ising Calibration 1 35B A3B holds the stronger ModelCap Index position (#95 vs #128).

Which should you choose?

Choose Ising Calibration 1 35B A3B if…

  • you want the stronger overall ModelCap Index position — #95 against #128 (47.4 vs 34.0 points).
  • you want the more recently listed model — Ising Calibration 1 35B A3B was listed 30 March 2026, Llama 3 1 Nemotron Ultra 253B v1 7 April 2025.

Choose Llama 3 1 Nemotron Ultra 253B v1 if…

  • ModelCap publishes no field on which Llama 3 1 Nemotron Ultra 253B v1 leads Ising Calibration 1 35B A3B for this pair.

Ising Calibration 1 35B A3B vs Llama 3 1 Nemotron Ultra 253B v1: specs, pricing and context

Specification comparison of Ising Calibration 1 35B A3B and Llama 3 1 Nemotron Ultra 253B v1
FieldIsing Calibration 1 35B A3BNVIDIALlama 3 1 Nemotron Ultra 253B v1NVIDIA
ModelCap Index position#95#128
Index score47.434.0
EvidenceInheritedMeasured
Input price / 1M tokensUnlistedUnlisted
Output price / 1M tokensUnlistedUnlisted
Context window— tokens— tokens
Max output tokens
API providers listed00
Weight accessRestricted licenseRestricted license
Input modalitiesText, ImageText
First listed30 March 20267 April 2025
PublisherNVIDIANVIDIA

Evidence: finetune of qwen/qwen3.5-35b-a3b · finetune (100%) · 1 public benchmark observation across 1 board. Prices are the lowest listed API offer per million tokens observed on the OpenRouter catalogue.

Benchmark scores: Ising Calibration 1 35B A3B vs Llama 3 1 Nemotron Ultra 253B v1

Public benchmark boards where Ising Calibration 1 35B A3B or Llama 3 1 Nemotron Ultra 253B v1 has a published result
BoardIsing Calibration 1 35B A3BLlama 3 1 Nemotron Ultra 253B v1Leads
BFCL V4UC Berkeley (Gorilla)10.0Function callingOnly one result

Scores are the sources' own published figures for each model's best evaluated configuration; ModelCap never re-runs a benchmark.

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Ising Calibration 1 35B A3B vs Llama 3 1 Nemotron Ultra 253B v1: common questions

Is Ising Calibration 1 35B A3B better than Llama 3 1 Nemotron Ultra 253B v1?

Ising Calibration 1 35B A3B ranks higher on the ModelCap Index as of 15 September 2026: #95 against #128. That is a capability ranking built from public benchmark evidence with published uncertainty; whether it is "better" for you also depends on price, context and where you can run it. Their published uncertainty intervals overlap, so the rank difference alone does not establish a reliable capability advantage for your workload.

Is Ising Calibration 1 35B A3B cheaper than Llama 3 1 Nemotron Ultra 253B v1?

At least one of the two has no listed API price on ModelCap right now, so no price comparison is made.

Which has the bigger context window, Ising Calibration 1 35B A3B or Llama 3 1 Nemotron Ultra 253B v1?

Both publish a —-token context window.

Which is better for coding, Ising Calibration 1 35B A3B or Llama 3 1 Nemotron Ultra 253B v1?

The two models do not share a coding benchmark board on ModelCap yet, so no head-to-head coding score is published; the ModelCap Index position is the closest overall signal.

Are Ising Calibration 1 35B A3B and Llama 3 1 Nemotron Ultra 253B v1 open-weight models?

Ising Calibration 1 35B A3B: Restricted license. Llama 3 1 Nemotron Ultra 253B v1: Restricted license. Open weights mean the checkpoint can be downloaded and self-hosted under its licence; API-only models are available solely through hosted endpoints.

Where can I run Ising Calibration 1 35B A3B and Llama 3 1 Nemotron Ultra 253B v1?

ModelCap currently lists 0 API providers for Ising Calibration 1 35B A3B and 0 for Llama 3 1 Nemotron Ultra 253B v1, from the OpenRouter catalogue snapshot the site serves; each model page lists the providers and their prices.

How current is this Ising Calibration 1 35B A3B vs Llama 3 1 Nemotron Ultra 253B v1 comparison?

Every figure comes from the sealed ModelCap dataset published 15 September 2026; the page re-renders within a minute of each data refresh, and the ModelCap Index positions are the same ones shown on the live rankings.

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