NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B (free) — Free API

What is NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B (free)?

NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B is a Mixture-of-Experts language model with 30B total parameters (3B active), available free on OpenRouter. Designed for highest compute efficiency and accuracy in agentic AI systems. Features a 262K context window — exceptionally long for its size class. Fully open with weights, datasets, and recipes under the NVIDIA Open License for custom deployment. Also available directly on NVIDIA NIM. OpenAI-compatible. Free tier: 200 RPD.

NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B (free) API Code Example

Paste your API key and run. See the config generator for Claude Code, Cursor, and more tools.

from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    base_url="https://openrouter.ai/api/v1",
    api_key="YOUR_API_KEY"
)

response = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="nvidia/nemotron-3-nano-30b-a3b:free",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}]
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)

import OpenAI from "openai";

const openai = new OpenAI({
  baseURL: "https://openrouter.ai/api/v1",
  apiKey: "YOUR_API_KEY",
});

const completion = await openai.chat.completions.create({
  model: "nvidia/nemotron-3-nano-30b-a3b:free",
  messages: [{ role: "user", content: "Hello!" }],
});

console.log(completion.choices[0].message.content);

curl https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -d '{
    "model": "nvidia/nemotron-3-nano-30b-a3b:free",
    "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}]
  }'

Other Free Models from OpenRouter