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Nemotron Cascade 14B Thinking

Official publisher releaseRestricted license2.5d #190 → #196

NVIDIA·#196 of 361 on the current board

Nemotron Cascade 14B Thinking is a language model from NVIDIA. It ranks #196 of 361 on ModelCap's current board, with an Index score of 37.3, modeled from the publisher's launch results against measured models. Its score range of 20.2–54.3 spans positions #104–#298. Its weights are downloadable under a use-restricted licence.

Figures as of 27 Oct 2026, 21:29 UTC · download the public dataset · methodology

ModelCap Index · Current board
37.3#196
Modeled from the publisher's launch results against measured models · range 20.2–54.3
Market Gravity
9.0
Secondary market signal

OpenRouter endpoint status could not be refreshed. This model is not treated as currently served until a successful observation arrives.

Input
Unlisted
no listed API price
Output
Unlisted
no listed API price
Context
—
tokens
Providers
0
endpoints

Providers

Uptime measured over the last 30 minutes

Current provider status is unavailable.

ModelCap Index · Current board

Methodology
37.3
Modeled from the publisher's launch results against measured models
Current board
#196 of 361
Score range
20.2–54.3
Rank range
#104–#298
Technical details
Public rank basis
Modeled · peer benchmarks (architecture)
Evidence label
Modeled · peer benchmarks · 6 reported rows against measured corpus ladders (67%); publisher-corpus-prior over 211 held-out anchors (33%); shrunk 0.2 toward the measured corpus
Index support
26.5% · limited
Identity binding
Exact catalogue product · nvidia/nvidia/Nemotron-Cascade-14B-Thinking · aggregates disclosed benchmark configurations · endpoint configuration not claimed · artifact metadata nvidia/Nemotron-Cascade-14B-Thinking@8aa18a07ea16c52261675f766ed2ea3ec80ea841 (not the evaluation revision)
Index observations used
0
Qualified Index evidence point
37.3
How this position was produced · fused launch placement

No general-family board lists this model yet. Its point estimate is the precision-weighted mean of every channel that spoke for it; each channel’s share is the weight it carried. Independent measurements replace this placement as boards list the model.

Fused estimate
37.3 ± 13.3
Independent share
0%
Shrink toward corpus
-0.2
Optimism haircut
None applied
Method
precision-weighted-v1
Channels fused into this model’s launch placement
ChannelEstimateShare
Corpus ladder · not independent
6 reported rows against measured corpus ladders
37.4 ± 16.367%
Publisher corpus prior · not independent
publisher-corpus-prior over 211 held-out anchors
36.9 ± 23.233%
Bayesian Evidence Score · measured evidence input only

BES normalizes admitted public benchmark evidence for measured Index rows. Its legacy score and observables prior do not define the public language rank.

Observed capability
—
Evidence status
No admitted measured evidence
General preference
—
Coding
—
Agents & tools
—
Reasoning
—
Evidence breadth
0%
Evidence coverage
0%
Market and catalogue signals · secondary, never the language Index rank
Usage (OpenRouter popularity)
—
Liquidity (providers × uptime)
—
Open reach (HF downloads)
—
Surface (context / tools / modalities)
0.0
Freshness
29.2
  • · Catalogue surface
  • · First seen 2025-12-08

These adoption and deployment observations remain context only. They do not change this model's ModelCap Index score or rank.

The bounded 0–100 capability score blends each source’s competitive placement with its published achievement, then combines capability families. Evidence breadth adds a modest uncertainty adjustment; price and popularity are not part of benchmark-led rank.

Experimental capability estimate

Estimate policy
18.5
3.7–33.3 uncertainty interval
Excluded from rank
Confidence
76%
Training support
221 models · 129 lineages
Out-of-domain check
in domain
Feature coverage
71%
Lineage-held-out error
8.3 MAE

Experimental estimate. This layer predicts from admitted evidence and safe metadata only. It never enters ModelCap Score or rank.

Deployment readiness

Metadata index
46.4
partial · 52% metadata coverage
Not capability
Artifact reproducibility
85.0
Access & legal clarity
92.5
Deployability
8.0
Evaluation provenance
0.0

Not yet published: the base model it derives from, a current serving provider, measured provider uptime, published provider pricing, declared context and output limits, admitted benchmark results, results across several capability areas, results from more than one source, a confident match to its benchmark entries, pinned evaluation dataset versions.

A metadata completeness and deployability index—not a safety certification, quality grade, or production-readiness claim.

Market activity

Venue coverage
Market Gravity
9.0
OpenRouter weekly popularity
Not listed

Market Gravity uses OpenRouter’s full-catalogue popularity order. Sparse Vercel top-ten observations appear only when published and do not affect the score.

Arena preference

No matched Arena rating

This model is visible because it is available in the live catalogue, but it has no trustworthy community result yet. ModelCap does not infer a quality score from price, features, or market activity.

Market Gravity breakdown

Usage55%
0.0

OpenRouter weekly popularity across the full model catalogue.

Liquidity25%
0.0

Independent providers versus the model's open or closed cohort, weighted by uptime.

Open reach15%
50.0

Hugging Face 30-day downloads for open models; neutral for closed models.

Freshness5%
29.2

Time since first public availability, on a six-month half-life.

Specification

Model ID
nvidia/Nemotron-Cascade-14B-Thinking
Declared output cap
Unknown

OpenRouter catalogue or provider-endpoint declaration. Limits can vary by provider and prompt length; a model-wide maximum has not been independently verified. OpenRouter metadata

Inputs
Text
Outputs
Text
Cached input tokens
Not offered
First seen on OpenRouter
8 Dec 2025

Capabilities

  • Not supported: Reasoning
  • Not supported: Tool use
  • Not supported: Structured output
  • Not supported: Response format
  • Not supported: Moderated

Weights & access

Restricted license. Downloadable weights use a model-specific or use-restricted license. Review the linked license before use, redistribution, or commercial deployment.

Access
Restricted license
Pinned revision
8aa18a07ea16
Parameters
14.8B
Architecture
Qwen3ForCausalLM
Model type
qwen3
Hugging Face downloads (30d)
1K
Downloads (all time)
35K
Likes
89
Repository updated
1 Jan 2026, 01:24 UTC

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Nemotron Cascade 14B Thinking: common questions

How does Nemotron Cascade 14B Thinking rank among AI models?

Nemotron Cascade 14B Thinking holds ModelCap Index position #196 of 361 ranked language models as of 27 October 2026, with an Index score of 37.3 (interval 20.2–54.3); evidence: modeled · peer benchmarks. The Index combines public benchmark boards with published uncertainty; the methodology page explains the weighting.

How much does Nemotron Cascade 14B Thinking cost per 1M tokens?

No live API price is listed for Nemotron Cascade 14B Thinking in the current snapshot as of 27 October 2026 because the latest endpoint refresh was unavailable. ModelCap shows a price only when a provider currently lists one.

Is Nemotron Cascade 14B Thinking open-weight?

Restricted license (nvidia-open-model-license). Downloadable weights use a model-specific or use-restricted license. Review the linked license before use, redistribution, or commercial deployment. The repository is nvidia/Nemotron-Cascade-14B-Thinking on Hugging Face.

Which benchmarks has Nemotron Cascade 14B Thinking been evaluated on?

Nemotron Cascade 14B Thinking's Index position rests on the evidence listed on this page; it has no result on the public boards ModelCap tracks as separate leaderboards as of 27 October 2026. The evidence panel names each source and its publication date.

When was Nemotron Cascade 14B Thinking released?

Nemotron Cascade 14B Thinking first appeared in the catalogue on 8 Dec 2025. It is the current version in its family. Rank and price movements since then are recorded on the site's changes feed.